Michael Braun Alexander

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Michael Braun Alexander (* 1968 in Bad Oldesloe as Michael Braun ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

After high school, community service and a four-month stay at Kibbutz Yifat in Israel Michael Braun studied from 1990 to 1993 at Magdalen College of Oxford University philosophy , politics and economics . From 1993 to 1995 he completed a graduate degree in international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna and Washington DC . During this period he was research assistant to David P. Calleo and Stephen F. Szabo . From 1995 to 1997 Braun completed a commercial traineeship at Hamburger Abendblatt and then worked as a correspondent for Axel Springer Verlag in New York. In 1999, Braun moved to the Finanz Verlag in Munich as a member of the editor-in-chief of the business magazine finances (today € uro ), where he worked as editor-in-chief from 2001 .

In 2003, Braun started his own business as a publicist in Berlin. From 2005 to 2012 he was a money columnist for the women's magazine Freund . Since 2014 he has been living and working as a foreign correspondent in India.

Braun processed his impressions at Oxford University in his autobiographical debut novel “Jericho or The Fine Face of Heaven” (1997). The novel “Bridegrooms” (2012) tells the story of a Bessarabian German family in the 20th century. His maternal ancestors come from Bessarabia , which the family left in 1940.

Literary works

• Jericho or The Fine Face of Heaven. Novel. Collection S. Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-22390-3 .
• Under the linden trees. Narrative. In: Petra Gropp , Jürgen Hosemann , Günther Opitz , Oliver Vogel (eds.): News from home! Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16311-0 .
• UG2. Novel. 2012, ISBN 978-1-4750-9672-9 .
• Grooms. Novel. 2012, ISBN 978-1-4680-7559-5 .
• Madame Jakublonski's Cabinet of Monstrosities. Novel. Dresdner Buchverlag , Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-941757-34-9 .

Non-fiction

• with Stephanie Heise : The 100 answers to the euro. In: Christa Randzio-Plath (Ed.): The Euro - more than a symbol. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft , Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4561-6 .
• with Carola Ferstl: All-round security with money. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-39083-4 .
• That's how money works. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-17118-7 .
• When money dies. Goldmann Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-17404-1 .

Awards (selection)

• 1996: Ludwig-Erhard-Förderpreis für Wirtschaftspublizistik, with Stephanie Heise.
• 2007: J. Henry Schroder Award.
• 2008: Scholarship for Berlin authors from the Governing Mayor.
• 2010: Cross-border commuter scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation.