Olaf Sundermeyer

Olaf Sundermeyer (2019)

Olaf Sundermeyer (* 1973 in Dortmund ) is a German journalist and publicist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Dortmund in 1992, Sundermeyer became a pioneer in the German armed forces . He then studied law at the Ruhr University Bochum and journalism at the University of Dortmund , each without a degree. Among other things, he worked as an innkeeper in Dortmund, in tourism (Tourguide USA), in the Bundestag (one year employee of a Saxon MP), as a radio reporter at the RBB and as a freelance correspondent in Warsaw. During a stay in Cuba , he studied communication sciences in Havana . After completing his two-year internship at the Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA) in Kassel, he became a journalist . Since then he has worked for national editorial offices in print media such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), on radio and on television. His main editorial team has been with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) since 2012 . Issues of internal security , such as extremism , crime and violence in football hooliganism , Clan crime are his journalistic field. The focus of work was also Pegida , HoGeSa and the NPD prohibition procedure . He is seen as an opponent of an NPD ban. In recent years he has been a frequent participant in talk shows .

Sundermeyer is the author of several books and lives in Berlin .

Monographs

with Christoph Ruf : In the NPD. Travel to the National Liberated Zone . Beck Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58513-5 .
The Pott. Why the Ruhr area determines the Federal Chancellor and Schalke will definitely be German champions . Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59134-1 .
Gateway to the East. Visit to a wild football world . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89533-853-3 .
Right-wing terror in Germany. A history of violence . Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63844-2 .
Gangland. Organized criminals target Germany (= CHBeck Paperback . No. 6278 ). 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70754-4 .
Gauland . The old man's vengeance . Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72710-8 .

Contributions to edited volumes

PEGIDA and the radicalization of the right - observations of a misanthropic movement . In: Andreas Zick , Beate Küpper : Anger, contempt, devaluation. Right-wing populism in Germany . Edited for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation by Ralf Melzer and Dietmar Molthagen , Dietz Verlag, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-8012-0478-5 , pp. 167–177.

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personal data
SURNAME	Sundermeyer, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dortmund