Markus Günther

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Markus Günther

Markus Günther (born December 15, 1965 in Bottrop ) is a German journalist and author . Among other things, he writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and lives in Bonn.

Live and act

Markus Günther studied history and political science in Bochum, Lyon and Montreal. He received his doctorate in 2003 in Bochum in the subject of modern history with a thesis on the Atlantic crossing in the age of mass emigration supervised by Wolfgang Helbich . Günther has worked for numerous German and US newspapers, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Los Angeles Times . From 1995 to 2000 he worked as an EU and NATO correspondent in Brussels. From 2000 to 2009 he reported as a foreign correspondent for German daily newspapers from Washington, DC He was a member of the White House press corps . In 2007 he published the first German-language Obama biography.

From July 1, 2009 to December 5, 2011, Markus Günther was editor-in-chief of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. The kressreport wrote about his time in Augsburg: "He started there with the aim of turning the paper into a politically ambitious, debate-friendly regional newspaper with supraregional validity." After the death of the publisher Ellinor Holland , he had to fight with her daughter Alexandra Holland leave the newspaper.

His essay Hitler and We was published in 2013 , in which he critically assesses Germany's coming to terms with the past and warns of new totalitarian tendencies. Günther's essay Only Illiterate , which appeared on May 24, 2014 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , caused controversial discussions . In it he warns of a complete collapse of reading culture in the digital age. His first novel Weiß was published in February 2017 and the novel Pietà in 2020 .

Günther is a member of the jury for the Theodor Wolff Prize .

Günther has been communications director of the Archdiocese of Cologne and head of the main media and communications department at the Vicariate General Cologne since February 1, 2019 . He is responsible for the external and internal communication of the archdiocese.

honors and awards

He has received numerous awards for his texts. In 2007 he received the German-American Journalism Prize from the German Foreign Office for his leading article, Wars without Winners , published in the Badische Zeitung . Other awards included the European Prize from the Philip Morris Foundation , the Central German Journalist Prize, the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship and the European Prize from the Hanns Seidel Foundation . In 2015, he received the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize of the Reading Foundation for his text Only Illiterate People, which appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . In 2018, Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey awarded him the € 10,000 prize from the German Palliative Foundation and the German Society for Palliative Medicine for his essay You must fight .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the way to the New World. The Atlantic crossing in the age of mass emigration 1818–1914. Wißner, Augsburg 2005, ISBN 3-89639-503-3 (also: Bochum, University, dissertation, 2003).
  • Faces of america. Reports from the land of unlimited contradictions . Henslowsky Boschmann Verlag, Bottrop 2006, ISBN 3-922750-63-X
  • Barack Obama. America's new hope . Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 3-89639-620-X
  • The face of war . Foreword in: Ernst Jünger : In Stahlgewittern . Weltbild, Augsburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-8289-5783-1
  • In the footsteps of the fisherman. In: Luis Antonio Tagle : Faith, Love, Hope. About being a Christian in a globalized world. Translated and with an afterword by Markus Günther. Fe-Medienverlag, Kisslegg 2014. ISBN 978-3-86357-081-1 .
  • White. Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-03820-043-7 .
  • Dealing with cancer patients: you have to fight. On: FAZ.NET from November 2, 2017, ISSN 0174-4909, online .
  • Pietà. Fontis Verlag, Basel 2020, ISBN 978-3-03848-189-8 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Bülend Ürük: Prominent newcomer: Markus Günther strengthens the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” . Newsroom.de, July 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Walter Roller is the new editor-in-chief . Augsburger Allgemeine, December 5, 2011; accessed December 7, 2011; About us: Editor-in-chief: Now with Markus Günther . Augsburger Allgemeine , July 1, 2009.
  3. ↑ Ex-CR of the "Augsburger Allgemeine": Markus Günther becomes an "FAS" author . kressreport.de, July 24, 2015 (no longer freely available).
  4. ↑ Bülend Ürük: The heiress: Holland in need . Newsroom.de, November 9, 2012; Siegfried Zagler: Media: Back to the Döpshofen farmer? Markus Günther failed because of the further development of the Augsburger Allgemeine. The Augsburger Zeitung, December 12, 2011.
  5. ↑ Karl-Heinz Karisch: Ausselesen: Time of letters soon over , Frankfurter Rundschau , August 7, 2014; Markus Günther! Titanic , May 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ catholicnewsagency.com: Markus Guenther becomes the new communications director of the Archdiocese of Cologne , December 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ erzbistum-koeln.de: main departments, staff units and departments
  8. ↑ Foreign Office awards the German-American Journalist Prize , message from the Foreign Office, May 31, 2007.
  9. ↑ halle.ihk.de , no longer available.
  10. ^ The Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize. Awards for contributions on the information and knowledge society ; High distinction for Markus Günther , journalistenpreise.de, December 5, 2015.
  11. ↑ Markus Günther: Dealing with cancer patients: You have to fight . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 22, 2018]).
  12. ↑ BMFSFJ - Media works about seriously ill people awarded. Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop