Lucas Vogelsang

Lucas Vogelsang at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

The journalist Lucas Vogelsang during a discussion at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2017

Lucas Vogelsang (born August 29, 1985 in Berlin ) is a German author , journalist and podcaster .

Life

Vogelsang, who grew up in Berlin-Spandau , went to the Zeitenspiegel reportage school Günter Dahl in Reutlingen after graduating from high school . He then worked as a freelance writer for the Tagesspiegel in Berlin and founded the 11 Friends Live Ticker. In 2011, Vogelsang took over the research for a play by Rainald Grebe and conducted the interviews that formed the content of the play. On August 31, 2011 the work of Grebe Völker looks at this city premiered at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin. Lucas Vogelsang then became an author and editor for the ARD evening talk show Gottschalk Live . From 2011 to 2017 Vogelsang wrote the monthly column "(K) one of us" in Playboy . In 2014 Rowohlt Verlag published his first book “And now for the weather - 100 years of world history in the live ticker”.

From 2015 to 2018 Vogelsang was an author for the daily newspaper Die Welt and the weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag . During this time he published his collection of reports "Heimaterde - a world tour through Germany" at Aufbau Verlag , which deals with the lives of migrants in Germany and was on the Spiegel bestseller list for weeks . The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote about it that it was "... a book that is as touching as it is thought-provoking and which refuses to pigeonhole thinking".

In October 2018 Vogelsang became the Ruhr town clerk and lived in the Ruhr area for one year. During this time he realized the magazine “Ruhr areas” in collaboration with the Witten photographer Philipp Wente and the Hamburg publisher Oliver Wurm.

In 2019, Lucas Vogelsang returned with “What are they doing here? German Borderline Experiences ”back to Rowohlt-Verlag . Together with the actor Joachim Król , he drove from the west to the east for this book to meet people whose lives had started all over again when the Wall came down.

The podcast trio (from left) Maik Nöcker , Micky Beisenherz and Lucas Vogelsang, 2018

Since April 2017, Lucas Vogelsang has been publishing the weekly Online Marketing Rockstars (OMR) podcast Soccer MML together with Maik Nöcker and Micky Beisenherz .

Lucas Vogelsang lives in Berlin-Wedding .

Awards

• 2010: Henri Nannen Prize in the "Humor" category for the live ticker on 11freunde.de
• 2013: German Reporter Award in the category “Best Local Reportage” together with Meral Al-Mer for you called her Titten-Gitti , published in Der Tagesspiegel on March 8, 2013
• 2016: Awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize for the report “Ein deutsches Eck”, published in the Welt am Sonntag on April 19, 2015
• 2018/19: Literature award "Stadtschreiber Ruhr", Brost Foundation , Essen

Publications

• Literature by and about Lucas Vogelsang in the catalog of the German National Library
• "What do they want here? German borderline experiences", with Joachim Król , Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-07071-7
• "A reunion" in "Real Love Stories", Piper Verlag, Munich 2019, EAN 978-3-492-07015-7
• "Seven Years of Grandchildren" in "Making waves: The story afterwards - Reporters tell", Stämpfli Verlag, Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-727-26037-7
• "Heimaterde. A trip around the world through Germany", Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-03671-3
• "Kneipe, Union" in "Alles auf Rot: Der 1. FC Union Berlin", Blumenbar, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-05046-7
• "They called her Titten-Gitti" in "In the Heart of the World - Germany's Best Reporter ...", Ankerherz Verlag, Hollenstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95898-010-5
• "In the wall" in "You have to be able to read a game", Blumenbar, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-351-05025-2
• "And now about the weather - 100 years of world history in the live ticker", Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-62856-6

Podcast

• since 2017: Football MML with Maik Nöcker and Micky Beisenherz

Web links

Commons : Lucas Vogelsang  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Lucas Vogelsang in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lucas Vogelsang in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Spandau is the best boot camp for life" , Tagesspiegel from March 14, 2017, accessed on July 11, 2018.
2. ↑ Lucas Vogelsang: And now to the weather . rowohlt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-62856-6 .
3. ^ The new Germans: "Heimaterde". In: Hamburger Abendblatt . August 1, 2017, accessed January 31, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Stadtschreiber 2019 - Lucas Vogelsang. In: Stadtschreiber Ruhr. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 
5. ^ [1] Rowohlt from May 1, 2019
6. ↑ [2] OMR, accessed on January 23, 2020
7. ^ Henri Nannen Prize 2010 goes to :, henri-nannen-preis.de, accessed on July 11, 2018.
8. ↑ [3] , accessed on January 23, 2020
9. ↑ [4] , accessed January 23, 2020
10. ↑ [5] , accessed on January 23, 2020
11. ↑ [6] , podcast on podigee.de, accessed on January 23, 2020