Lea Rieck

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Lea Rieck

Lea-Katharina Rieck (born September 5, 1986 in Munich ) is a German-Austrian journalist , author and adventure traveler .

Life

Lea Rieck is the daughter of Egon and Helene Rieck. After graduating from high school in 2008, she studied art history as a major as well as business administration and law as minor subjects at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and graduated in 2013 with a Magistra Artium . In 2013 she received the Heinrich Wölfflin Prize from the Friends of the Institute for Art History at the University of Munich for her master’s thesis.

From 2008 she worked for various clients and published photos and texts in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Die Welt , Dazed Digital and Glamor, among others . From 2013 to 2016 she worked for Condé Nast Verlag with content responsibility for websites , social media channels and digital services in the Digital editorial team and for the Architectural Digest brand .

Today Rieck is self-employed and lives in Munich, Zurich and Osterwitz . She works in digital conception as a journalist, book author and keynote speaker .

Adventure travel

Lea Rieck in Africa (2019)

From 2013 Rieck made numerous trips, including to China and Iran , about which she reported journalistically. In 2014 she obtained her motorcycle license and traveled alone by motorcycle from Munich to Istanbul via Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria , Greece , Albania , Montenegro and Croatia .

After quitting her job in 2016, she set out on a trip around the world by motorcycle alone , from which she only returned to Germany in November 2017. Over a distance of 90,000 kilometers, she traveled over 50 countries with a route from Germany via Central Asia , Southeast Asia , Australia , America and Africa . During the trip she published reports in various print and internet media . In 2019 she published her book Tell the Adventure, I'm Coming , which was on the Spiegel bestseller list for 8 weeks , and since then has reported on her experiences in numerous lectures, TV talk shows , interviews and podcasts . Since autumn 2019, Rieck has been circling Africa in stages on his motorcycle

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner of the Heinrich Wölfflin Prize. In: kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ Motorcycle world traveler Lea Rieck: "I'm not afraid". In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Bettina Hensel: World tour by motorcycle: "Tell the adventure, I'm coming", book by Lea Rieck. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Rider Inspiration: Lea Rieck 90,000km world motorcycle tour. In: Total Motorcycle. December 20, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ book report. In: buchreport.de. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Around the world on a motorcycle. In: zdf.de. April 15, 2019, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Kölner Treff on August 9, 2019. In: programm.ard.de. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Birgit Bulla: Half the world on a motorcycle: Interview with Lea Rieck. In: Stylight.at. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Podcast Interview "Lea Rieck in Africa" , In: pegasoreise.de, accessed on May 1, 2020.
  10. ↑ YouTube "West Africa Trailer. Africa overland by motorcycle" , accessed on July 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Rieck, Lea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieck, Lea-Katharina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian journalist, author and adventure traveler
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich