Miguel Szymanski
Miguel Szymanski (* 1966 in Faro ) is a German-Portuguese journalist and author. He works bilingual for press, television and radio companies in Portugal , Germany and Austria .
In German-speaking countries he is the Portugal correspondent, author of the weekly newspaper der Freitag and publishes regular columns in the Portuguese-language newspaper Portugal Post, which appears in Germany .
In Portugal he is a TV commentator for the public television broadcaster RTP and is also an integral part of the Mundo sem Muros (German: "World without Walls") weekly TV discussion group there since 2017 . He is also a columnist for the Diário de Notícias newspaper .
Life
Szymanski was born in 1966 in Faro on the Algarve coast in southern Portugal, to a German father and a Portuguese mother who was born in Macau . In addition to Swabian roots, the family also has Catalan and Bohemian roots. In 1976, after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, Szymanski moved with his parents to Germany in the Ruhr area , where he continued to grow up , especially in Bochum . In the late 1980s he went back to Portugal, where he lived and worked in the capital, Lisbon .
In Portugal he worked a. a. for the business newspaper Económico and was editor, department head and columnist for the Portuguese edition of GQ magazine from 2005 to 2012 .
In 2010, his book Economista Acidental was published (German: "The random economist").
As a result of the severe economic crisis in Portugal after the euro crisis from 2010, Szymanski moved back to Germany in 2013, where, after a professional stopover in Heidenheim an der Brenz as a copywriter, he worked as a journalist in Frankfurt am Main .
In 2014 his book, "End of the Fiesta - Southern Europe's Lost Youth" was published by Kösel-Verlag . It addresses the crisis in Portugal, its causes and the devastating effects on people, also based on its own experiences. Szymanski's story occasionally serves as an example to make the development of Portugal during the crisis, but also its remarkable development since the center-left government under Prime Minister António Costa more understandable in Germany.
From 2014 to 2016 Szymanski wrote the column “At home with strangers” in the TAZ and was an editor at Öko-Test .
In 2016 Szymanski moved back to Lisbon with his family, they now live near the Atlantic Ocean in Costa da Caparica opposite the capital.
family
Miguel Szymanski is the son of a German father and a Portuguese mother, the couple had five children. Szymanski's younger brother is Vasco Gerhard Szymanski (* 1970), Portuguese honorary consul in Munich.
Miguel Szymanski is married to the Portuguese journalist Alexandra Caetano da Silva and has two children. The family has been living in the greater Lisbon area again since 2016.
Works
- O Economista Acidental - Como salvar a carteira sem perder a vida . Arcádia Editora, Lisbon 2010 ( ISBN 978-989-2800-24-0 )
- End of the Fiesta - Southern Europe's lost youth ., Kösel-Verlag , Munich 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-466-37111-2 )
- Contos da Emigração - Homens Que Sofrem de Sonhos ., Oxalá Editora , Dortmund 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-946277-11-8 ), collection of short stories with a contribution from Miguel Szymanski
- Ouro, Prata e Silva ., Suma de Letras / Penguin Random House , Lisbon 2019 ( ISBN 978-989-665-705-5 )
- O Grande Pagode ., Suma de Letras / Penguin Random House, Lisbon 2019 ( ISBN 978-989-665-877-9 )
Web links
- Literature by and about Miguel Szymanski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Miguel Szymanski's entry at Random House
- TV program Mundo sem Muros
- Miguel Szymanski's TAZ columns "At home with strangers"
Miguel Szymanski's entry in the BNP Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crise financeira, pátria e cheesecake - Uma conversa com o jornalista luso-alemão Miguel Szymanski - "Financial crisis, home and cheesecake - a conversation with the German-Portuguese journalist Miguel Szymanski" , interview from May 2017 on the website of the Goethe Institute Lisbon (port.), Retrieved December 7, 2018
- ↑ Miguel Szymanski's entry at the Random House publishing group , accessed on August 17, 2018
- ↑ Miguel Szymanski's columns on the website of the Portugal Post newspaper and monthly in the print edition, accessed on December 8, 2018
- ↑ Mundo sem Muros
- ↑ a b Miguel Szymanski: End of the Fiesta - Southern Europe's lost youth , Kösel-Verlag , Munich 2014, p. 9ff
- ↑ O Economista acidental
- ↑ Entry of the book O Economista Acidental at www.wook.pt, the online trade of the Porto Editora publishing house, accessed on December 8, 2018
- ↑ Information on the book "Ende der Fiesta" at Random House, accessed on August 17, 2018
- ↑ a b c The last Sozi , article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 18, 2018, accessed on August 17, 2018
- ↑ "At home with strangers"
- ↑ German-language interview with Miguel Szymanski on the Goethe-Institut website , accessed on August 17, 2018
- ↑ a b Biographical notes on Miguel Szymanski in the collection of stories Contos da Emigração - Homens Que Sofrem de Sonhos , Oxalá Editora , Dortmund 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-946277-11-8 ), p. 125
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szymanski, Miguel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miguel Vieira Branco Szymanski (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Portuguese journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Faro , Portugal |