Oliver Driesen

Oliver Driesen, 2014

Oliver Driesen (born May 1, 1966 in Düsseldorf ) is a German business journalist , non-fiction author and writer.

Life

After studying economics at the University of Cologne and the London School of Economics , Driesen initially worked as a freelance business journalist a. a. for WDR , Deutschlandfunk , Spiegel or Wirtschaftswoche . At the beginning of 2001 he went to Hamburg as editor of the weekly newspaper Die Woche . After the paper was discontinued in 2002, an interlude as an editor at the business magazine brand eins followed . Since 2003 Driesen has been working as a freelance author and senior editor on behalf of publishers, agencies and companies. The “concepts” magazine of the Hochtief construction group , which he was editor-in-chief for eleven years until 2014, received the Gold Best of Corporate Publishing award four times under his editorial management .

In 2005 Driesen's first non-fiction book was published by Hoffmann und Campe . As a book author, he initially specialized in company histories and entrepreneur biographies, including the German steel entrepreneurs Willy Korf and Jürgen Großmann . About Driesens history of the Hamburg harbor in the mirror of globalization, "World in flux" , which saw FAZ : "Without glossing over the author describes port operations and HHLA Development to times of Nazism ". For the series of non-fiction books published by Werner Müller “Unter uns. The fascination of hard coal mining in Germany ”he took care of the editorial management of the Bissinger Plus agency.

In 2016 Driesen published his first fiction work. In the satirical novel "Wattenstadt" he describes a clash of cultures between the residents of a Hallig and a non-local entrepreneur. The Lübecker Nachrichten judged: “An entertaining novel told with a lot of humor”. For his story Borowiaks Soup , Driesen was awarded one of the two sponsorship prizes of the Ruhr Literature Prize in 2018 . 2019 Driesens second novel switching Tags child , in which he one alternate history to the thwarted sinking of the Titanic designs.

Driesen also works as a ghostwriter for celebrities from business and society and runs the time and literature-critical blog "Liniensturm".

Works (selection)

• The fire maker. Willy Korf, Steel Rebel from Passion (non-fiction book, 2005) ISBN 978-3-455-09504-3
• Black as slag, red as embers. The amazing history of Georgsmarienhütte and its group of companies (non-fiction book, 2006) ISBN 978-3-455-50004-2
• World in flux. Hamburg's port, HHLA and globalization (non-fiction book, 2010) ISBN 978-3-455-50139-1
• Enterprise 2.0 - How the social web is revolutionizing companies and markets ( Audiobook , 2011) ISBN 978-3-86793-407-7
• Wattenstadt (Roman, 2016) ISBN 978-3-7412-5310-2
• Leap day child. Every course is correctable. (Novel, 2019) ISBN 9783948218058

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Driesen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Oliver Driesen at perlentaucher.de
• Liniensturm.de
• NN-Ghostwriting.de
• Ina Namislo: audio review of the non-fiction book "Welt im Fluss" ( MDR Figaro )
• Interview on the novel Wattenstadt on the literary portal leserkanone.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HOCHTIEF customer magazine. Retrieved September 13, 2017 . 
2. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: A whole world in flux. July 5, 2010, accessed September 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Bissinger +: Oliver Driesen also there. Retrieved September 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten: Stress on Langeneß. Retrieved September 13, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Short Stories (3): Borowiak's soup. In: zeilensturm.de. Retrieved December 8, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Prize winners 2018. In: Literaturbüro Ruhr. December 6, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Leap day child. Retrieved on July 22, 2019 (German). 
8. ↑ www.nn-ghostwriting.de. Retrieved September 13, 2017 . 
9. ↑ : zeilensturm :. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .