Renate Meinhof

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Renate Meinhof (born January 24, 1966 in Bergen on Rügen ) is a German journalist .

Life

Renate Meinhof grew up in a Protestant rectory on the island of Rügen. Her paternal ancestors were pastors for several generations. According to her, her parents never accepted the GDR regime. As a child she had already learned “that there are several truths and that it can hurt to stand up for one's own convictions”.

After graduating from the church college in Potsdam-Hermannswerder , she did an apprenticeship as a librarian at the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR . She then began studying Protestant theology at the Evangelical Language Convict in East Berlin , which she continued after the political change in the GDR in 1989/90 in Frankfurt am Main and at the church college in Berlin-Zehlendorf . She graduated from the Humboldt University in Berlin.

After attending the German School of Journalism in Munich , she worked from 1996 in the editorial department for Tagesthemen under Ulrich Wickert in Hamburg . Since 1999 she has been working in the report editorial team (page 3) of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Renate Meinhof was awarded the Sophie Media Prize of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for her reports in 2000, 2002 and 2004 .

In 2006 her book about the invasion of the Red Army in Mecklenburg was published under the title "The Diary of Maria Meinhof". It is a historical report based on the notes of her grandmother, which the granddaughter found in the attic six decades later. Ulrich Wickert called the depiction in his review for Die Zeit a "painting à la Hieronymus Bosch from the days of downfall".

In 2008 she received the German-Polish Journalism Prize . The award-winning report “The wondrous world of washing power” was filmed in 2009 by Hans-Christian Schmid . In 2011 she was awarded the women's journal Emma's prize for journalism .

Renate Meinhof is married and has two children.

Book publication

  • Maria Meinhof's diary. April 1945 to March 1946 in Pomerania - A search for clues . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005 ISBN 3-455-09425-2 (paperback edition: Rowohlt 2006)

Awards

Video

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Meinhof, Bruderherz , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 16./17. February 2019, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Life after Luther. The Protestant rectory yesterday, today and tomorrow. Special issue on the event and exhibitions “Life after Luther. A cultural history of the Protestant rectory. " Ed. Kulturbüro der EKD 2014, p. 35
  3. ↑ Renate Meinhof (33 K) . djs.online.de
  4. ^ Reporter forum Renate Meinhof . reporter-forum.de
  5. ↑ "Home birth? Yes, have you gone crazy now?" . sueddeutsche.de , August 2, 2018.
  6. ↑ Media Festival . dgb-nord.de , June 25, 2002.
  7. ^ Winner: Sophie - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Media Prize . journalistenpreise.de
  8. ^ The diary of Maria Meinhof . perlentaucher.de
  9. ↑ Chronicle of the Prize Winners 1997–2017 . medientage.org
  10. ↑ Brief description of the nominated contributions . medientage.org
  11. ↑ 10. "Emma" journalist prizes awarded to Renate Meinhof . newsroom.de , May 26, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Meinhof, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains on Rügen