Markus Feldenkirchen

Markus Feldenkirchen, 2018

Markus Feldenkirchen (born September 1, 1975 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life and education

Markus Feldenkirchen studied political science , history and literature at the University of Bonn and New York University after graduating from the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Bensberg in Bergisch Gladbach . This was followed by training at the German School of Journalism in Munich , which he completed in 2001.

Journalistic activity

From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a parliamentary correspondent for the Berliner Tagesspiegel . In 2004 he moved to the capital city office of Spiegel , where he initially worked as an editor, from 2006 as a reporter for politics and from 2007 as deputy head. Since summer 2010, Feldenkirchen has held the position of author in the Spiegel capital city office. In 2014 he became the US correspondent for the Washington- based magazine . In September 2012, Feldenkirchen's first film was shown on German television, a 45-minute documentary about the life and career of Wolfgang Schäuble with the title "It is as it is".

During the last five months of the 2017 federal election campaign, Feldenkirchen accompanied Martin Schulz on fifty appointments, e. B. at strategy meetings and late currywurst dinners and, as agreed, only published the resulting report in Spiegel after the election. The portrait published in New Yorker in November 2016 about a few of Barack Obama's last days in office served as a model.

When they applied for the party leadership as dual leadership , Feldenkirchen accompanied the duo Karl Lauterbach and Nina Scheer from September 4, 2019 to October 12, 2019 to many regional conferences of the SPD base and published his report in Spiegel on October 26, 2019.

Writing activity

In 2010, Feldenkirchen published his debut novel What belongs together in Verlag Kein & Aber . It is about a successful but unhappy banker who is reminded of his first love when he receives a letter. The novel met with a positive response from the critics. In the summer of 2013 his second novel No Experiments was published , the story of a conservative man who falls in love with an independent young woman and thereby shakes his framework of values. This novel was also received positively.

Works

• What belongs together , Roman, Kein & Aber , Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5575-9 .; as paperback: Rowohlt Verlag , Reinbek bei Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-25763-6 .
• No experiments , novel, no & but, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-0369-5671-8 .
• The Schulz story . A year between soaring and falling. DVA, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-421-04821-9 .
  • as an audio book: The Schulz Story . A year between soaring and falling. John Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-942057-94-3 .

Awards

• In 2002 and 2015 Feldenkirchen was honored with the German-American Arthur F. Burns Prize
• 2007 Axel Springer Prize for young journalists in the "Print" category for the article "1 plus 1 = zero"
• 2008 2nd winner of the USable Transatlantic Journalism Award
• In 2011, Feldenkirchen and ten other Spiegel editors received the Henri Nannen Prize in the category "Particularly understandable reporting (best documentation)" for the play " A German crime " about the air attack near Kunduz .
• Voted Journalist of the Year in 2017 by "medium Magazin"
• 2018 Nannen Prize for the best report ( Egon Erwin Kisch Prize ) for Manno-Manno man

Web links

• Markus Feldkirchen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Brief introduction of the author on the publisher's website
• Brief introduction of the author on the homepage of the Reporter Forum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.spiegelgruppe.de. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on December 22, 2017 . 
2. ↑ meedia.de. Retrieved December 22, 2017 . 
3. ↑ phoenix press - first broadcast - It is as it is - Wolfgang Schäuble will be 70. September 7, 2012, accessed on March 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ The situation on Saturday . In: Spiegel Online . September 30, 2017.
5. ↑ Stephan Haselberger: bewilderment in the SPD . In: Der Tagesspiegel . 3rd October 2017.
6. ↑ Markus Feldenkirchen: Willy become. Karl Lauterbach fought with leftist positions to become party chairman - a close-up . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , October 26, 2019, p. 36-43 .
7. ↑ Thomas Andre: And in the distance the fallow deer roars. In: Abendblatt.de. August 6, 2010, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Review on sf-magazin.de last accessed on August 22, 2010.
9. ↑ Anja Hirsch: debut novel: kisses fall like walls. In: fr-online.de . September 2, 2010, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
10. ^ Goldstück from October 5, 2010 ( Memento from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ www.wdr2.de ( Memento from July 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
12. ^ Markus Feldenkirchen: "No experiments". In: hr-online.de. July 3, 2013, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on March 11, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Markus Schwering: “No experiments” by Markus Feldenkirchen: A member of parliament goes underground . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . ( ksta.de [accessed on March 11, 2017]).
14. ↑ Journalism Prize from the Federal Foreign Office. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .  
15. ^ Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists. Archived from the original on October 14, 2016 ; accessed on December 22, 2017 . 
16. ↑ www.koerber-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012 ; accessed on December 22, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Honor: SPIEGEL editors awarded Nannen prizes. In: Spiegel Online . May 6, 2011, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
18. ↑ Award for Journalist of the Year 2017. December 21, 2017, accessed on December 22, 2017 .  
19. ↑ NANNEN PRIZE 2018. Nominees and award winners
20. ^ Nannen Prize for Markus Feldenkirchen . Article dated April 12, 2018, accessed April 18, 2018.