Jan Gympel

Jan Gympel (* 1966 in Berlin ) is a German author and journalist .

Act

Jan Gympel studied German, journalism and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1983 he began to work continuously as a journalist, initially as a volunteer for the alternative district newspaper Südost-Express in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Since 1987 he has been a professional writer, among others for the daily newspaper , Der Tagesspiegel , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Die Welt . For an eight-part Tagesspiegel series on Berlin railway architecture and its monument protection, he was awarded the German Monument Protection Prize in 1994 by the German National Committee for Monument Protection. Since 1998 he has been a member of the award jury for this prize.

He is currently working as a freelance journalist for Zitty (Berlin), Hinnerk (Hamburg), the traffic magazine Signal and the architecture papers Baumeister (Munich) and Bauwelt (Berlin). His main topics are film and television, architecture and monument protection, traffic (especially trams and underground trains ) and Berlin's urban history. He also published various books and book chapters on these. In addition, there have recently been prose texts in anthologies as well as stories and dialogues for comics. Gympel lives in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

• Crooked tours. With the tram through Berlin. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88520-438-X .
• Will Tremper , Films by a Journalist. (= Kinemathek , issue 80.) Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek , Berlin 1993.
• Deep tunnel. With the subway through Berlin. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88520-502-5 .
• (with Marc Dannenbaum): Kreuzberg. District guide. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87024-415-1 .
• History of architecture. From antiquity to today. Könemann, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-89508-200-7 (also published in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Dutch) / New edition: Tandem, Königswinter 2005, ISBN 3-8331-1403- 7 .
• (with Ingolf Wernicke): The Berlin Wall. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932202-41-4 . (also published in an English version)
• Pacemaker of progress, victim of progress? Buildings and facilities for traffic. (= Series of publications of the German National Committee for Monument Protection , Volume 60.) Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922153-11-9 .
• U 4. The Schöneberg subway. Verlag GVE, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89218-090-3 .
• (with Wolfgang Streich and Volker Wagner): The Kulturbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg. Be.Bra Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89809-000-0 .
• Berlin subway. Story (s) for on the go. Verlag GVE, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89218-072-5 .
• Border and ghost stations. Bien & Giersch Project Agency - Edition Panorama Berlin, Berlin undated (2005).
• Professor Knifflich asks Berlin: Do you understand the station? Verlag GVE, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89218-111-8 .
• The inhuman voice. Verlag Matthias Herrndorff, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-940386-00-7 .
• The summer hater book. Verlag Matthias Herrndorff, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-940386-20-5 .
• Tempo! Berlin traffic history. Elsengold Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944594-38-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Gympel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Jan Gympel
• Homepage of the comic duo Marcel + Pel (Matthias Herrndorff + Jan Gympel)