Michael Goering

Michael Göring, 2013

Michael Göring (born July 30, 1956 in Lippstadt , Westphalia ) is chairman of the board of the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius , from 2014 to 2018 chairman of the board of the Federal Association of German Foundations and author .

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Göring was born as the son of Heinz Otto and Marlies Göring in Lippstadt and graduated from high school there in 1975. After studying English , geography (with a focus on economic geography ), American studies and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne, Swansea (Great Britain) and Wayne State Detroit (USA), he passed his state examination in Munich in 1983. There the scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation received his doctorate in 1986 in English literary studies with the dissertation Melodrama heute, the adaptation of melodramatic elements and structures in the work of John Arden and Arden / D'Arcy. In 1986 he also worked as a university assistant at the University of Munich.

After serving as an academic advisor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich , Michael Göring moved to Bonn in 1988 to join the German National Academic Foundation. From 1993 he was head of the funding department of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation in Essen. Michael Göring has been a managing member of the board since 1997, and chairman of the board of the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg since 2005 .

Since 2001 he has also been an honorary professor in the field of foundations at the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg.

In 2006, Professor Michael Göring received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to the foundation. In 2019 Göring was awarded the Dr. Günther Buch Prize 2019 for his work in the field of humanities, foundations and as a novelist.

In the Federal Association of German Foundations , Göring had been a board member since July 1, 2008, from June 1, 2011, Deputy Chairman of the Board, and from May 22, 2014 to May 17, 2018, Chairman of the Board. He is also chairman of the supervisory board of the Bucerius Law School , chairman of the board of trustees of the Bucerius Kunst Forum , member of the boards of trustees of Hamburger Sparkasse , the Hamburger Kunstsammlungen foundation and other foundations, and deputy chairman of the Hamburg advisory board of Deutsche Bank .

In September 2011 his novel Der Seiltänzer was published , in September 2013 the novel Vor der Wand , in February 2016 Spiegelberg - Roman one generation , in autumn 2018 the novel Hotel Dellbrück .

Göring is one of the initiators of the Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Fonts (selection)

Non-fiction

Melodrama today. The adaptation of melodramatic elements and structures in the work of John Arden and Arden-d'Arcy . In: Munich studies on modern English literature . tape 2 . Grüner, Amsterdam 1986, ISBN 90-6032-286-X (dissertation).
Donate in Hamburg. Walks through Germany's foundation capital . With the collaboration of Sascha Suhrke. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-8319-0292-5 .
Company foundation. Donate with heart and mind . 2nd Edition. Hanser, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-42180-6 .

Fiction

The tightrope walker . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40099-1 .
In front of the wall . Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-95510-023-0 .
Spiegelberg - novel of a generation . Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95510-104-6 .
Hotel Dellbrueck . Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-95510-165-7 .

Awards

2006: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
2019: Dr. Günther Buch Prize for the humanities

Individual evidence

^ Hes: Federal Cross of Merit for Michael Göring. In: welt.de . August 14, 2006, accessed October 7, 2018 .

↑ ZEIT Foundation. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .

↑ https://www.stiftungen.org/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung/vorstandswechsel-beim-bundesverband-deutscher-stiftungen.html

↑ http://www.michael-goering.com/de/veroeffnahmungen.html

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Goering, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German literary scholar, chairman of the Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius Zeit Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lippstadt , Westphalia

[welt-235875-1] Hes: Federal Cross of Merit for Michael Göring. In: welt.de . August 14, 2006, accessed October 7, 2018 .

[2] ZEIT Foundation. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .

[3] ttps://www.stiftungen.org/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung/vorstandswechsel-beim-bundesverband-deutscher-stiftungen.html

[4] ttp://www.michael-goering.com/de/veroeffnahmungen.html