Michael Schophaus

Michael Schophaus (* 1956 in Bottrop ) is a German journalist and author .

After graduating from high school, he studied at the German Sport University Cologne , graduating as a sports scientist. From 1985 to 1986 Schophaus attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism under Wolf Schneider in Hamburg and then worked as an editor at Stern . From 1990 he was a reporter at the Olympic Games for the magazine Sports and wrote travel reports.

In 1995 he became head of department in the Milchstrasse publishing group , where he worked on magazines such as Fit for Fun , Max and Amica . He also worked in the teamwork editorial community from 1997 and helped develop the newspaper am Sonntag and the football magazine Hattrick.

From 1999 to 2002 Schophaus was editor-in-chief of Bäckerblume in Hilden.

As a freelance journalist, he published numerous articles (including in Zeit-Magazin , Merian , taz , Stern , Geo Saison, Max , Amica , Männer Vogue and Park Avenue ) and also wrote several non-fiction books on various topics. He became known through the successful book "In Heaven Trees Wait For You" (2000), which describes the death of his son Jakob, who got cancer at the age of 2. With "Too Young to Be Old" (2004) he wrote the world's first book that deals with the disease progeria , the premature aging of children.

From 2006 to 2011 Michael Schophaus worked as head of text for Lufthansa magazine. Since then he has been working freely again, u. a. as a consultant at the Hamburg publishing house Hoffmann & Campe.

Schophaus lives in Hamburg and Langenfeld near Cologne, is married and has two children.

criticism

Because of his work for the baker's flower , Die Woche suspected in November 1999 that Schophaus "treats his bread roll as self-deprecatingly as Harald Juhnke deals with his alcohol problems" and proclaimed him "journalistic relegation of the year". The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote at the time "Here is mockery the daily bread", while the Rheinische Post wrote it with the line "The baker's flower cannot be bent!" encouraged.

Publications

• Trees are waiting for you in the sky. The story of a life that is far too short . Pendo, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-85842387-4 .
• Mothers are better women . Pendo, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85842493-5 .
• Too young to be old The story of an enigmatic disease . Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-442-15279-7 .
• I'll get that thing in and done. Why German football needs Lukas Podolski . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-40477-7 .
• Stand your man - The best tips for health, happiness and sex . Kösel, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-46630764-3 .
• Snow. A declaration of love to Winter , AT Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03800-019-8 .

Web links

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