Ralf Heimann

Ralf Heimann (born February 27, 1977 in Rheine ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Ralf Heimann grew up in Bentlage, Westphalia, a district of his native Rheine. There he made his Abitur at the Gymnasium Dionysianum . From 1997 he studied business administration, politics, philosophy and economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He finished his studies in 2003 with a degree in economics . He then worked as a freelance journalist. From 2005 to 2007 he also completed a traineeship at the Münsterschen Zeitung in Steinfurt and Münster and at the Ruhr Nachrichten in Dortmund . He then worked as a business editor and journalist for the Münstersche Zeitung. Since 2014 he has worked as a freelance author for Stern , Spiegel Online and SZ-Magazin , among others . He is one of four authors of Germany's oldest media blog waste paper and writes a column on Bildblog .

Ralf Heimann became famous for an overturned flower pot . Together with Jörg Homering-Elsner , the operator of the Facebook page Perlen des Lokaljournalismus, he published three books with style blossoms and funny missteps from German-language (local) newspapers, which were Spiegel bestsellers. The medium magazine chose Heimann 2014 in the category Reporter Regional of the ten journalists of the year in 2015 in the Entertainment category also among the top ten.

bibliography

• The dead cow comes in tomorrow: a reporter has to go to the country . Fischer Scherz , Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-651-00056-8 .
• with Jörg Homering-Elsner: Leprosy group has disbanded: pearls of local journalism . Heyne Verlag , Munich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-60362-2 .
• with Jörg Homering-Elsner: Abdominal surgeon does an excellent job : pearls of local journalism . Heyne Verlag, Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-60409-4 .
• with Jörg Homering-Elsner: Central cemetery as extinct: pearls of local journalism . Heyne Verlag, Munich, 2018, ISBN 978-3453604827 .
• with Jörg Homering-Elsner: The ground floor is on the 3rd floor: pearls from the world of signs . Heyne Verlag, Munich, 2019, ISBN 978-3453605039 .
• From sweets you get Karisma: Original soundtracks from the children's room . Blanvalet Verlag , Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-734-10280-6 .
• Perceived Truth: Our lives in entertaining charts . Prestel Verlag , Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-791-38246-3 .
• with Daniel Wichmann : Everything is banana here - Erich Honecker's secret diaries 1994 - 2015 . Ullstein Verlag , Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-864-93040-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ralf Heimann in the catalog of the German National Library