Joachim Käppner
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 .
Publications (selection)
- Frozen history. Fascism and Holocaust as reflected in the history of science and history propaganda in the GDR. Results-Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-87916-055-4 .
- The family of the generals. A German story. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0708-7 .
- Berthold Beitz. The biography. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0892-3 .
- Profiler. On the trail of serial criminals and terrorists . Hanser, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24368-2 .
- 1941. The attack on the whole world. Rowohlt, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-87134-826-6 .
- In the shadow , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 243 of 21./22. October 2017, p. 3.
- 1918 - uprising for freedom - the revolution of the prudent. Piper, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-05733-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Käppner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reviews of works by Joachim Käppner at Perlentaucher
- Report "Until freedom is resurrected" and Käppner's short biography at the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers
Individual evidence
- ↑ Printed on the homepage of the Reporter Forum.
- ^ Theodor Wolff Prize winner since 1962
- ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/panorama/kultur-literatur/wirtschaftsbuchpreis/wirtschaftsbuchpreis-sieger-2011-beitz-biografie-setzt-einen-kontrapunkt-zur-krise/4749774.html
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SURNAME | Käppner, Joachim |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |