Katharina Weiß (writer)

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Katharina Viktoria Weiß (born July 23, 1994 in Bad Wörishofen ) is a German writer and journalist .

life and career

Weiß grew up in Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria . She attended the Marien-Gymnasium Kaufbeuren until she graduated from high school .

In 2010, as a 15-year-old student, Weiss sent the synopsis for her non-fiction debut Generation Geil to Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag . In May 2011 the second non-fiction book, Schön !? which deals with the cult of the body and ideals of beauty in intimate conversations . After various guest columns and the coming-out-of-age novel Sommernachtsjugendewigkeit , the pop literary report book 100 Things You Should Do Before You Turn 18 was published in 2012 in collaboration with travel journalist Marie Michalke of the same age . In 2013, together with Philipp Zumhasch , she published the anthology Legenden von Morgen , which deals in 35 reports with young talents from areas such as politics, science, pop culture, literature and art. She became known to a wide audience through five appearances on TV .

Before working with Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag , Weiss wrote for the Mindelheimer Zeitung and the Augsburger Allgemeine for several years . From 2013 to 2015, Weiß completed an apprenticeship at the Axel Springer Academy and works at Die Welt , Die Welt Kompakt and Bild am Sonntag . For the moderation of the multimedia project Wahllos. Germany your non-voters , the then 18-year-old and her team were nominated for the German Reporter Award and the Grimme Online Award.

In 2015, the trained editor left Axel Springer Verlag and lived for a short time in the USA before settling in Berlin as a freelance author and press writer. Among other things, Weiß has been editor-in-chief at MYP Magazine since 2016 and has been working for Berliner Morgenpost , Stern.de and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg since 2017 .

From 2015 to 2018, Weiss studied the bachelor's courses in European Ethnology and American Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She then completed her master's degree in European ethnology . In 2020, her research on the "Vintage Virtuosos" - a Berlin history community that realizes its pursuit of aesthetic everyday experiences by referring back to the 1920s - was carried out in the anthology "Mediated Pasts - Popular Pleasures. Media and Practices of Popular Cultural Remembrance ”.

Works

  • Generation Geil - youth in self-portrait. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-995-9 .
  • Nice!? - Young people talk about bodies, ideals and problem areas. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86265-038-5 .
  • Summer night youth eternity. Novel. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-86265-080-4 .
  • 100 things to do before you turn 18 Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-89602-594-4 .
  • Legends of Tomorrow Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86265-216-7 .
  • Mediated Pasts - Popular Pleasures. Media and practices of popular cultural remembrance. Cultures of Popular Entertainment and Amusement, Vol. 5. (Eds. Christoph Bareither and Ingrid Tomkowiak), 2020, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neuman, ISBN 978-3-8260-6774-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nominees - Grimme Online Award. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ About us | MYP Magazine . In: MYP Magazine . ( myp-magazine.com [accessed May 31, 2018]).
  3. ↑ She was 19 and he was 28. The wall separated them. Many years later they found each other again. November 9, 2019, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Christoph Bareither, Ingrid Tomkowiak: Mediated Pasts - Popular Pleasures . Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8260-6774-7 ( hu-berlin.de [accessed June 27, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME White, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Katharina Viktoria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Woerishofen