Peter Meier-Bergfeld
Peter Meier-Bergfeld (* 1950 in Nachrodt ; † May 8, 2019 in Hartberg , Austria ) was a German journalist and publicist .
Life
Meier-Bergfeld studied history , German and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He passed both state exams (1978, 1980) for the higher teaching post and the Magister examination (MA 1979).
From 1979 to 1985 he was a high school teacher ( teacher ) for German and history, from 1985 to 1986 press officer at the Berlin Senator for Education, Vocational Training and Sports Hanna-Renate Laurien (CDU) and the early 1990s, a lecturer at the University of Leipzig , the University Graz and the FH Joanneum . He was previously an editor at the Protestant weekly newspaper Christ und Welt and from 1993 to 2010 a correspondent for the Christian weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur in Graz as well as a war reporter during the Yugoslav wars in Southeast Europe.
From 2010 he was a freelance journalist for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Meier-Bergfeld was also active as a journalist and belonged to a. 1994 to the authors of the new right anthology The self-conscious nation .
Awards
- 2002: Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria
- 2003: Honorary title Professor (Austria)
- 2011: Otto von Habsburg Journalist Prize
Fonts (selection)
- Public servant. The public service . Edition Interfrom, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7201-5166-2 .
- People, gifted for the beautiful? Ten years as a correspondent in Austria. Reports, essays, comments, interviews . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8334-0502-3 .
- Ösis and Piefke. Seeking kakania with the soul. Essays, reports, interviews, comments from Austria . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-3444-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Meier-Bergfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Peter Meier-Bergfeld at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative page of Peter Meier-Bergfeld | trauer.kleinezeitung.at. Retrieved on May 21, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Heimo Schwilk , Ulrich Schacht (ed.): The self-confident nation. "Swelling Bocksgesang" and other contributions to a German debate . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-550-07067-5 , p. 481.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meier-Bergfeld, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nachrodt |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2019 |
| Place of death | Hartberg , Austria |