Jens König (journalist)

Jens König (born January 17, 1964 in East Berlin ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author.

Life

König was born in East Berlin as the son of an engineer and a hairdresser and grew up there. In 1982 he passed the Abitur and then completed a one-year traineeship at the FDJ daily newspaper Junge Welt (JW). In 1983, König joined the SED , of which he was a member until 1989. From 1983 to 1987 he studied journalism at the Journalism Section at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and at the Lomonossow University in Moscow. After graduating, he was editor of Junge Welt from 1987 .

During the peaceful revolution in the GDR in autumn 1989, JW editor-in-chief Hans-Dieter Schütt was deposed. On November 21, 1989, the Junge Welt employees elected Jens König as the new editor-in-chief, a post he held until 1994. After that, König headed the parliamentary office of the taz until 2008 . From 2008 he was a reporter in the Berlin office of stern . In summer 2018 he moved to New York as the USA correspondent for the magazine.

In 2005, König published a biography about Gregor Gysi . The book he co-authored was simply hung up in 2007 with the literary prize Das Politische Buch of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and received positive reviews, among others in the Frankfurter Rundschau and in Freitag .

Publications

Gregor Gysi: A biography . Rowohlt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-87134-453-2 .
with Nadja Klinger : Simply left behind. A true report on the new poverty in Germany . Rowohlt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87134-552-0 .

literature

Ingrid Kirschey-Feix : King, Jens . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Jens König: Climbing for the Kremlin. in: taz , February 12, 1997, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
↑ Jens König - USA correspondent. 2018, accessed February 21, 2019 .
↑ Annett Gröschner: Hartz IV versus Hartz 44. in: Friday , January 12, 2007, accessed on February 21, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	King, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	17th January 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Berlin

[1] Jens König: Climbing for the Kremlin. in: taz , February 12, 1997, accessed on February 21, 2019 .

[2] Jens König - USA correspondent. 2018, accessed February 21, 2019 .

[3] Annett Gröschner: Hartz IV versus Hartz 44. in: Friday , January 12, 2007, accessed on February 21, 2019 .