Robin Alexander

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Robin Alexander (2020)

Robin Alexander (born May 13, 1975 in Essen ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Alexander grew up in Wanne-Eickel . After doing his community service he studied history and journalism at the University of Leipzig . He followed the advice of his history teacher, who called on his students to go to East Germany after German unification . Alexander met his future wife there. From 1998 to 1999 he completed an internship at taz in Berlin and worked there as a reporter and editor from 2001 to 2006 . He was a columnist for the English-language city magazine Exberliner , made reportage trips through southern Africa and was a guest editor at The Star in Johannesburg in 2004 as a scholarship holder . After a year of parental leave, he has been editor of the German edition of Vanity Fair since it was founded in 2006.

Alexander has been writing for Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag since 2008 , has reported there since 2010 on the Chancellery and accompanies Angela Merkel as a reporter on trips abroad and on international summits. In 2013 he was a face of the world's branding campaign . Since 2019 he has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief Politics of the World .

Robin Alexander is married, has three children and lives in Berlin.

Bestseller The Driven

In 2017 Alexander published his book The Driven: Merkel and Refugee Policy . In it, he reports, among other things, that Angela Merkel and her cabinet made up of the CDU / CSU and SPD , unlike previously reported in the media, originally considered rejecting asylum seekers at the border during the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 onwards , and why it did so in the end there was no such general closure of the borders. The book reached number one on the Spiegel bestseller list (edition 13/2017, hardcover non-fiction books ) and stayed there for three weeks, then for another three weeks at number two. The book was also an internationally respected and, among others, in the Financial Times , in Le Figaro and Guardian reviewed. A Polish translation was published in December 2017. The film The Driven According to Alexander's Book was shown on April 15, 2020 in Das Erste .

In March 2018, Alexander was awarded the “Media Prize of the German Bundestag” for the preprint published in the Welt am Sonntag under the title Das Bild that should never exist . For the jury, Claudia Nothelle praised the author for having achieved “a great journalistic hour”: “A research with explosive power, of which there are not many.” Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble presented the award .

watch TV

Robin Alexander is a regular guest on German television, for example with Anne Will, Maybrit Illner, Sandra Maischberger, Hart aber fair , in the ARD press club and the ZDF morning magazine . In the 2013 federal election campaign, he acted as an expert and co-presenter in Stefan Raab's programs Die Absolute majority and TV Total Bundestag election on Pro7. At the news channel Welt , he regularly comments on current federal political events. Alexander is a regular guest on the Markus Lanz show . A sentence he coined there about the work of the grand coalition was often reproduced by Markus Lanz and distributed on Twitter as a video compilation: “The CDU and CSU regularly touch a large bucket of bad-smelling stuff. And then the SPD comes and puts it over its head. "

Podcast

From August 2019 to June 2020, Alexander was the guest presenter of the Steingarts Morning Briefing podcast every Friday . Alexander announced there that he would withdraw from the daily reporting over the summer of 2020.

Awards

  • 2018 Media Prize of the German Bundestag for the text Das Bild that should never exist in Die Welt am Sonntag
  • 2017 “Political Journalist of the Year”, awarded by Medium Magazin
  • 2014 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
  • 2013 Theodor Wolff Prize in the Report / Essay / Analysis category for the text Auf den Herd, published in the Welt am Sonntag
  • 2012 Participation in the "Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance" of the ZEIT Foundation in Hamburg

Fonts

Web links

Commons : Robin Alexander  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steingart's Morning Briefing. October 4, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Inside the X: Robin Alexander
  3. ↑ Today's top story: The government's gun deal - or the prostitutes who strangled a pizzeria owner?
  4. ↑ Brand campaign of the world
  5. ↑ Entry on the book at buchreport . Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  6. ↑ Subscribe to the FT to read: Financial Times "The Driven", by Robin Alexander
  7. ^ Robin Alexander, la plume dans la plaie de Merkel
  8. ↑ Germany devours book on Angela Merkel decision to open borders
  9. ↑ The Driven, Polish translation.
  10. ↑ Film Wednesday in the first
  11. ^ "Welt" author Robin Alexander receives the Politics Media Prize 2017
  12. ↑ "We discussed that last time": Markus Lanz is embarrassed by asking Felix Jaehn. July 3, 2019, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Gabor Steingart gets podcast power from Robin Alexander, Mathias Richling and Chelsea Spieker. Retrieved on October 5, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ World deputy editor Robin Alexander leaves Steingart's podcast team. Accessed June 12, 2020 (German).
  15. ↑ For this text Robin Alexander received the media prize of the German Bundestag
  16. ↑ Got to the stove
personal data
SURNAME Alexander, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH eat