Maxim Leo

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Maxim Leo in 2010

Maxim Leo (born January 30, 1970 in East Berlin ) is a German journalist , screenwriter and writer .

Life

Maxim Leo grew up in East Berlin. After training as a chemical laboratory assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, he graduated from the Treptow Adult Education Center in 1990. In the summer of 1989 he tried to marry an Austrian woman so that he could travel freely. From 1990 to 1995 he studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . From 1995 to 1996 Leo was news editor for the television station RTL .

From 1997 to 2017 he was an editor at the Berliner Zeitung . There he was initially responsible for France and the European Union in the Foreign Policy department, and since 2001 he has worked in the “Page Three” department. Alternating with his colleague Gutsch , he publishes the Leo / Gutsch column in the magazine of the Berliner Zeitung .

In 2002 he was awarded the Franco-German Journalism Prize and in 2006 the Theodor Wolff Prize . In 2009 his autobiographical book Keep Your Heart Ready, an East German Family History , was published, for which he received the European Book Prize in December 2011 . In 2019 Leo will write another autobiographical book Where We Are At Home , in which he tells the story of his Jewish family who were displaced into the world.

Leo wrote the script for the 2014 Tatort film "Wahre Liebe" . He is also writing his own crime series about Commissioner Voss, who is investigating in Brandenburg.

Together with Jochen Gutsch, he published the bestseller Talking Men , It's Just a Phase, Rabbit and You Remain My Winner, Tiger , which mainly deals with the oddities in the life of medieval men.

Maxim Leo lives in Berlin with his wife and two children . He is the grandson of the Resistance fighter and journalist Gerhard Leo and the son of the historian Annette Leo and the artist Wolf Leo .

Publications

  • 2019, with Jochen-Martin Gutsch : You remain my winner, Tiger: Even more consolation for adolescents , Ullstein: Berlin, ISBN 978-3550200267
  • 2019, Where we are at home: The story of my missing family , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, ISBN 978-3462050813
  • 2018: with Jochen-Martin Gutsch: It's only a phase, Hase: A comfort book for adolescents. , Ullstein: Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86493-061-4 .
  • 2015: Waidmannstod: The first case for Commissioner Voss. KiWi-Taschenbuch, ISBN 978-3-46204-834-6 .
  • 2015: Auentod: The second case for Commissioner Voss. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, ISBN 978-3-46204-829-2 .
  • 2014: Men like us: The second most honest book in the world , with Jochen-Martin Gutsch, Heyne, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-60293-9 .
  • 2011: with Jochen-Martin Gutsch: speaking men. The most honest book in the world. Blessing, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89667-440-1 .
  • 2009: Keep Your Heart Ready: An East German Family Story. Blessing, Munich, ISBN 978-3-89667-401-2 .
  • 2005: with Jochen-Martin Gutsch: Single-family: two men-two worlds. 66 true stories , illustrations by Wolf Leo . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna, ISBN 3-451-28553-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview on phoenix March 28, 2020 in Grenzenlos, The Year 1989, directed by Gabriele Denecke 2019
  2. ^ Thomas Wieder: Berlin, 1989: les folles heures de l'étudiant Maxim Leo . In: Le Monde . August 22, 2019 ( lemonde.fr [accessed August 23, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Reporter Forum: Authors , last accessed on September 25, 2016
  4. ^ Column Leo / Gutsch on berliner-zeitung.de
  5. ^ Cologne crime scene "Wahre Liebe" ( memento from September 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the ARD portal, accessed on October 16, 2014. Criticized in the Frankfurter Rundschau on September 27, 2014
  6. ↑ Where we are at home. The story of my missing family. In: Der Spiegel. March 12, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Leo, Maxim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin