Michael Ringel

Michael Ringel (born October 10, 1961 in Moers ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Michael Ringel was born in Moers in 1961 and moved to West Berlin in 1982 . There he studied German and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . During his studies he dealt with all literary forms of humor. After completing his master's thesis on The Reflection of the Ancient World in Early Stories by Arno Schmidt , he wrote a bibliography on the work of the writer Eckhard Henscheid in 1991 . From 1992 he worked as a freelance journalist and in 1995 he joined the editorial team of the east-west weekly newspaper Freitag , where he was most recently in charge of the job . In 1999 he worked for a year as head of duty in an agency that produced daily newspaper pages.

At the beginning of 2000, Ringel became the editor for the “truth” page of the Berlin daily taz .

Michael Ringel has so far appeared as an author for various daily newspapers, magazines and radio stations. He has also written a large number of articles for edited volumes and anthologies. For years, Ringel has also dealt with the list form and has published several books with lists. He also collects bogus articles in dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Controversy over texts by Michael Ringel

On April 19, 2011 a gloss by Michael Ringel under the title "The whole world loves the King of Swaziland" appeared in the taz under the heading "die truth " . This text was criticized as racist in an open letter from the Migration Council Berlin Brandenburg. The use of derogatory and racist terms for blacks was criticized in particular, as well as their clichéd sexualised representation. Michael Ringel responded with the following explanation: "A gloss does not necessarily reflect the opinion of an author, but takes up clichés and prejudices in order to offer them to the reader in exaggerated form as a suggestion worth considering." He went on to say that satire must hurt in order to be effective.

Works

Books

• Bibliography Eckhard Henscheid 1968–1990 , Paderborn 1992
• The cunning book of truth. Worthless knowledge to the power of 10. Frankfurt am Main 1998
• Ringel's marginal notes , Frankfurt am Main 2005
• The ultimate lists of leisure & physical exercise , Frankfurt am Main 2006
• The ultimate lists of Lust & Liebe , Frankfurt am Main 2006
• The ultimate lists of languages ​​& words , Frankfurt am Main 2006
• The ultimate lists of food and pleasures , Frankfurt am Main 2006
• The ultimate lists from film & music , Frankfurt am Main 2006
• The ultimate lists of beautiful & desolate places , Frankfurt am Main 2006
• Great moments of truth , Oktober Verlag , Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-938568-85-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Ringel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gloss The whole world loves the King of Swaziland
2. ↑ Open letter from the Migration Council Berlin Brandenburg ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 51 kB) 
3. ^ Radio interview with André Degbeon and Angelina Weinbender from the migration council Berlin Brandenburg , radio corax May 20, 2011
4. ^ Reply from the taz editor-in-chief to the Migration Council Berlin & Brandenburg. (PDF; 852 KB) In: blog.derbraunemob.info. May 11, 2011, accessed September 15, 2018 .