Reiner Luyken

Reiner Luyken (2014)

Reiner Luyken (born October 11, 1951 in Starnberg ) is a book author, columnist and former foreign correspondent for the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit , who lives in Achiltibuie in the Scottish highlands. From here he traveled the world, mostly for lengthy research. Luyken is married, has four children and a grandfather five times.

Life

Luyken was born in Starnberg in 1951 and passed the humanistic Abitur at the Karlsgymnasium in Munich-Pasing in 1970 . He then completed an apprenticeship as a harpsichord maker and worked as an organ builder, truck driver and carpenter. In 1978 Luyken moved to Scotland , where he worked as a salmon fisherman for six years. In 1982 Die Zeit published his first article. In 1984 he spent two months in the USA on a scholarship from the Michael-Jürgen-Leisler-Kiep Foundation . Until 1994 he worked as a freelance author for Die Zeit , GEO , Merian and numerous other publications. He has been under contract with the time since 1994 .

After starting a family in 1980 (wife Sheileagh Gunn, four children * 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988), he settled in northern Scotland. His glossy Mail from Achiltibuie , which appeared occasionally during this period , is very popular. In August 2015 the Ullsteinverlag published his book Schotten Dicht - Nachrichten aus Scottland und Achiltibuie .

example

• Descent from Olympus , Zeit Online from March 11, 1994

Honors

• 1986 IG Metall reportage award for unemployed people . In: Die Zeit , No. 21/1985
• 1990 Best business report of the year for Chemo-Fisch, fresh from the cage . In: Die Zeit , No. 37/1989
• 1995 German-British Journalism Prize, awarded by Federal President Roman Herzog and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh , as patrons of the German-British Foundation for special journalistic services to the understanding between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom
• 1997 Theodor Wolff Prize for The Protest Machine . In: Die Zeit , No. 37/1996
• 2005 Media Prize from the Johanna Quandt Foundation for a small liter of oil on a long journey . In: Die Zeit , No. 36/2004
• 2008 Main Prize of the Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation for The World in the Egg . In: Die Zeit , No. 27/2008
• 2012 Ernst Schneider Prize , the largest German competition in business journalism, for my good money . In: Die Zeit , No. 17/2011

Web links

Commons : Reiner Luyken  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Reiner Luyken in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of articles by Reiner Luyken for Die Zeit
• Web presence of the Luyken family

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kiep-stiftung.de
2. ↑ vogelstiftung.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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