Olaf Przybilla

Olaf Przybilla (* 1972 in Wertheim ) is a German journalist .

He grew up in Bavaria and studied German , history , political science and sociology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After graduating, he was a lecturer in modern German literary studies and literary history at the Friedrich-Alexander University. In 2001 he became a correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) in Northern Bavaria, and has been the head of the SZ-Franken office in Nuremberg since 2008 .

He became known at the end of 2012 through research and articles about the Gustl Mollath case , for which he and his colleague Uwe Ritzer were awarded 3rd place in the Guardian Prize of the German daily press in 2013 .

In June 2013, the book he wrote with Ritzer about this affair was published.

Publications

• with Uwe Ritzer: The Mollath Affair. The man who knew too much. Droemer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-27622-8 .

Web links

• A legal scandal - "gustl mollath" on the website of the Documentation Center Courageous searches and reports, including
• When justice, psychiatry and politics fail at the same time , interview by Reinhard Jellen with Uwe Ritzer and Olaf Przybilla in Telepolis , June 22, 2013

Footnotes

1. ^ Author page Süddeutsche Zeitung, accessed online on August 26, 2019 | 1:10 p.m. - available online
2. ^ Mollath case - allegations against Bavarian justice . Dossier of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
3. ↑ Documentation Center Courageous Research and Reports: Wächterpreis - Current Stories ( Memento from April 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ 17 SZ journalists received awards . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 13th March 2013