Norbert Robers

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Norbert Robers (2016)
Norbert Robers in 2017 with Joachim Gauck after his honorary doctorate in the auditorium of the University of Münster

Norbert Robers (born December 14, 1962 in Rheine ) is a German journalist .

Career

After graduating from the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun-Gymnasium in Münster , Norbert Robers studied English and Romance languages at the University of Münster from 1982 to 1988, completing a Magister Artium . He completed a traineeship with the Westfälische Nachrichten in Münster .

From 1991 to 1999 he worked as an editor for Welt am Sonntag and the news magazine Focus . During this time he mainly dealt with the work of the authority of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic and its head Joachim Gauck . He found out that there was no biography of Gauck yet. With the approval and support of Gauck, Robers published the first biography of the head of the Stasi records authority in 2000. After his election as Federal President in March 2012, he left under the title Joachim Gauck. An updated new edition will follow from pastor to president .

Robers, who returned to Münster in 1999 and headed the Münster local editorial department of the Westfälische Nachrichten for three years , then worked as editor and deputy editor-in-chief for Weser-Kurier , Nordwest-Zeitung and, from 2008 to 2009, for a short time for Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . Robers worked as an EU correspondent in Brussels for five years . Since October 1st, 2009 he has been press spokesman for the University of Münster.

Norbert Robers is married and has two daughters.

Web links

Commons : Norbert Robers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robers, Norbert . In: Andreas Klimt (Red.): Kürschner's German Non-Fiction Calendar 2003/2004 , Volume II PZ. K. G. Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2004. ISBN 3-598-24181-X , p. 615.
  2. ↑ a b c Dirk Anger: Norbert Robers is the new press spokesman for the University of Münster . In: Westfälische Nachrichten , online version of August 27, 2009; Retrieved December 9, 2015
  3. ^ Norbert Robers: Joachim Gauck. An institution's biography . Henschel, Berlin 2000, 239 pages, ISBN 3-89487-365-5
  4. ^ Norbert Robers: Joachim Gauck. From pastor to president. The biography . 2nd Edition. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2012, 240 (XXIV) S., ISBN 978-3-7338-0388-9
  5. ↑ Henning Kornfeld: Angela Gareis and Norbert Robers leave the WAZ group . In: kressnews of August 26, 2009; Retrieved December 9, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Brief portrait at the University of Münster ( Memento from November 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Robers, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheine