Joachim Käppner

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Joachim Käppner (born February 6, 1961 in Bonn ) is a German journalist and historian .

Life

Käppner graduated from the Bonn Aloisiuskolleg in 1980 and studied history and political science at the University of Bonn , in the 1984 summer semester he was at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

From 1982 he worked as a permanent freelancer for the General-Anzeiger in Bonn. In 1984 he did an internship at Financial Mail in Johannesburg, South Africa . From 1986 to 1987 Käppner attended the German School of Journalism (DJS) in Munich . He then worked as a freelance journalist for Zeit magazine and profil , among others . From 1992 to 2000 he was an editor and reporter for the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt in Hamburg , from 1999 as head of the political and economic department.

In 1998 he received his doctorate at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH) after successfully defending his thesis The Holocaust in the Mirror of GDR History .

Käppner works as a department head for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , writes for these leading articles, among other things, and has also written books on military and political topics.

Käppner received the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1999 for his report “Until freedom is resurrected”, and in 2011 he received the German Business Book Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros , for his biography about Berthold Beitz .

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Individual evidence

  1. Printed on the homepage of the Reporter Forum.
  2. ^ Theodor Wolff Prize winner since 1962
  3. http://www.handelsblatt.com/panorama/kultur-literatur/wirtschaftsbuchpreis/wirtschaftsbuchpreis-sieger-2011-beitz-biografie-setzt-einen-kontrapunkt-zur-krise/4749774.html