Philip Meinhold
Philip Meinhold (born April 15, 1971 in West Berlin ) is a German journalist and author .
Life
After graduating from high school and training in the book trade, Meinhold attended the Berlin journalist school and sat in on the German-Jewish weekly newspaper Aufbau in New York. From 1995 he worked as a freelance writer for various print media and in particular for the RBB transmitter Radio Fritz and radioeins . From 2001 to 2005 he studied part-time at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . His first novel, Apachen Freiheit , was published in 2002, followed by Fabula rasa in 2009, and in 2015 the family story Heirs of Memory . From 2007 to 2009 Meinhold was in charge of the writing workshop in the prison for women in Berlin / Pankow. In addition, columns and stories have appeared in various anthologies as well as various articles in the taz and the Berliner Zeitung . In 2015 Meinhold produced the 9-part podcast series "Who shot Burak?" for radioeins and Kulturradio from the rbb, in which he investigates the unsolved murder of 22-year-old Berlin-based Burak Bektas. The series was perceived by the media as the "German serial". In 2017 the podcast series "Bilals Weg in den Terror" followed for NDR and rbb. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung counted both series among the best investigative podcasts worldwide in 2018.
Meinhold lives in Berlin.
Publications (selection)
Books
- Heirs of Memory , Verbrecher-Verlag , Berlin 2015
- O youth, o West Berlin , epubli Verlag , Berlin 2013
- Fabula rasa , Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle an der Saale 2009
- To, loud, strong - Das Fritz-Buch (as ed.), Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003.
- Apache freedom , Ullstein Verlag , Munich 2002
Radio
- (as director :) Greenhouse, 5-part podcast series by Sophia Wetzke, rbb 2020
- Burak and Luke - two murders in Berlin-Neukölln, feature, rbb 2018
- Bilal's Path to Terror, Feature, NDR / rbb 2017
- Bilal's Path to Terror, 5-part podcast series, NDR / rbb 2017
- Who shot Burak ?, 9-part podcast series, rbb 2015
- The dream of a journalist's life, feature, rbb 2014
- Heirs of Memory, Feature, BR 2010
Contributions to anthologies
- Generation XY ... unsolved , in: "Wait a minute! What time does with us", Rowohlt Berlin 2017
- Things in the rearview mirror can be closer than they seem , in: "Risk Analysis - The Best Stories from the MDR Literature Competition 2013", poetenladen, Leipzig 2013.
- And at the end, at the very end , in: "Cracks in Concrete", Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 2009.
- Fink , in: "Turboprop - Best Stories", Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 2008.
- Mined area , in: “The Composition of the World - The Best of the MDR Literature Competition ”, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2008.
- Generation West Berlin , in: “Capital Book”, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2005.
- The saddest area in the world , in: "Leipzigbuch", Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2005.
- It's my life , in: “Everything will change when we grow up”, Parthas Vlg., Berlin 2004.
- Saddam , in: "The green hills of Africa", Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2004.
Web links
- Literature by and about Philip Meinhold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Meinhold at Perlentaucher
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Meinhold in literaturport.de
- ↑ Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg: Who shot Burak? - rbb-online.de. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
- ^ Anne Fromm: Podcast “Who shot Burak?”: Germany's “Serial” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 15, 2015, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 26, 2018]).
- ↑ Julia Rieke, bento: Today the German "Serial" from Berlin starts . ( bento.de [accessed on February 26, 2018]).
- ↑ NDR: Bilal's path to terror. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Raffaela Angstmann: These are the best investigative podcasts | NZZ . May 8, 2019, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed June 9, 2019]).
- ↑ Greenhouse. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinhold, Philip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Berlin |