Rolf Kunkel

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Rolf Kunkel (* 1940 in Bremen ) is a German journalist .

Life

In the mid-1950s, 16-year-old Rolf Kunkel joined the merchant navy as a cabin boy to pursue a career as a deck officer. In 1961, after six years, he left the sea to become a journalist. As a reporter, however, he later returned several times to nautical issues, e.g. B. wrote about submarines and container shipping. He describes his professional beginnings as follows:

“When I was ten, I bought a small tape recorder, stood with it on the soccer field and practiced. On the radio I heard the real reporters speak and tried to imitate it. Then one day I sent a tape to Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Herbert Zimmermann , the greatest sports reporter at the time, gave me an appointment and as a young man I was allowed to do my first test report. "

- Rolf Kunkel : Interview on reporter forum

After joining NDR , Kunkel worked as a sports journalist for several ARD stations for the next 18 years. In 1971 he received the Theodor Wolff Prize for a work broadcast on WDR . In 1980 Kunkel switched from radio to print journalism and worked as a reporter a. a. for star and mirror . In 1980 he was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for his report Death at the fourth obstacle in GEO . The report on the cruel conditions of horse racing in Velká Pardubická generated a great response from the readers.

He has been working as a freelance writer since 1986. Kunkel lives and works in Ahrensburg near Hamburg.

Works

  • Fascination sport , together with Daniel Bullinger. Quadrat-Verlag, Leipzig 1998. ISBN 3-932751-11-6 .

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Rolf Kunkel: U 18 on phantom hunt . In: FOCUS No. 9 / 1997. Online at http://www.focus.de/panorama/reportage/reportage_aid_163390.html
  2. ↑ Rolf Kunkel and Charly Kurz: The captains driving school . In: mare No. 19 from April / May 2000.
  3. ^ Rolf Kunkel: Death at the fourth obstacle . - In: GEO from July 1980.
  4. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners , online at http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/buecher/509895.html
  5. ↑ GEO received more than 50,000 letters to the editor. In: Interview with Rolf Kunkel, on reporter forum.

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personal data
SURNAME Kunkel, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen