Nadja Klinger

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Nadja Klinger (born 1965 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and book author .

Live and act

Nadja Klinger grew up in Schulzendorf near Berlin. Due to her athletic talent and special achievements in volleyball, she attended a children's and youth sports school (KJS) in Berlin, where she also passed her Abitur. Subsequently, from 1985 onwards , she completed a degree in journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which she completed in 1989.

After a permanent position as editor and reporter for the daily newspaper Junge Welt , Klinger has been working as a freelance journalist and author since 1994. Her portraits, reports and columns publish daily newspapers and magazines such as Der Tagesspiegel , tageszeitung , GEO and Das Magazin . In addition, she writes narratives and stories as well as non-fiction books in which she devotes herself to controversial social and current socio-political topics.

Klinger is the mother of two grown daughters. She lives in Berlin and since 2018 temporarily in New York.

Prizes and awards

Nadja Klinger has received several awards and grants for her journalistic work. In 1995 she received the IG Medien journalist award , and in 1999 a New York scholarship at the Kranichstein Literature Prize . As part of the Poetics of the Border , a project by the European Capital of Culture Graz 2003, she received a two-month scholarship.

The Federal Association of Free Welfare Care (BAGFW) awarded her the 2006 Social Prize in the field of print.

Just left behind. A true report on the new poverty in Germany was named The Political Book of the Year 2007 by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

For journalistic courage, diligence and persistence in devoting herself to a social issue over a longer period of time and making this known to the public with commitment, she was awarded the prize The Long Breath of the Berlin-Brandenburg Journalists' Association in 2011 for the Tagesspiegel contribution True Poverty in Germany honored.

Works

  • I draw a circle. Stories. Alexander Fest, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-828-60013-1 , review in GDR Bulletin
  • This year in Jerusalem in: Michael Brumlik (Ed.): My Israel. 22 interventions requested . Fischer paperback, 1998, ISBN 978-3-596-13938-5
  • Volleyball in: Markus Jaroschka, Dzevad Karahasan (Ed.): Poetics of the Border. Talking about the borders - literary bridges for Europe. Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz 2003, ISBN 978-3-854-89084-3
  • The east in me. In: Rainer Eppelmann, Markus Meckel, Robert Grünbaum (eds.): The whole of Germany. Reports on unity. Structure of paperback, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-746-67050-8 .
  • Nadja Klinger, Jens König: Simply left behind. A true report on the new poverty in Germany. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-871-34552-4
  • Over the Alps. A travel. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-871-34654-5
  • High fossility. The sound of life. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-871-34756-6
  • Inga Bing-von Häfen, Nadja Klinger: You are and stay in the rain. Home education in the Diakonie in the 50s to 70s in Upper Swabia. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-889-81364-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nadja Klinger: I. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Annett Gröschner: Basement - Hartz IV versus Hartz 44. January 12, 2007, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Winner since 2007 - JVBB - Journalists Association Berlin-Brandenburg. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Birgit Dahlke: GDR Bulletin. 1998, accessed March 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klinger, Nadja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin