Johann Legner
Johann Legner (born May 18, 1954 in Bopfingen ; † November 14, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and book author .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1973, Johann Legner studied political science and economics at the Free University of Berlin and the IEP Strasbourg. In 1979 he graduated as a political scientist. He worked as an editor for the alternative daily newspaper taz until 1985 and was one of the founders of the first local edition of the paper in Berlin at the end of 1980.
Legner later worked for the news channel n-tv . From 1996 to 2000 he worked as press spokesman for Joachim Gauck , the then federal commissioner for the Stasi files . This was followed by positions as deputy, temporarily also acting editor-in-chief of the Lausitzer Rundschau and as USA correspondent for the news agency dapd . In October 2014, Legner published a biography of Gauck, who was elected Federal President in 2012 .
Legner died in November 2015 at the age of 61 in a Berlin hospital.
Works
- Politics in Nowhere - Party Politics in East Germany . In: Hanno Burmeister, Isabella Pfaff (Hrsg.): Politics with a future - theses for a better federal policy . Springer, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01191-8 .
- Joachim Gauck - Dreams of Paradise . Bertelsmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-10162-9 .
- GREXIT: What the Greece lie costs us. CBX, Freising 2015, ISBN 978-3-945794-33-3 ; as audio book : 6 CDs, read by Markus Böcker, Abot , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95471-397-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Legner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
- Short biography at C. Bertelsmann
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Sontheimer : Obituary: Our colleague Johann Legner ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the taz of November 18, 2015 (accessed on November 18, 2015)
- ↑ Obituaries in Der Tagesspiegel (accessed November 22, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Legner, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bopfingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 2015 |
| Place of death | Berlin |