Ronald Reng

Ronald Reng (* 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German sports journalist and book author . Among other things, he wrote the book The Dream Guardian , which in 2004 was the first foreign book to be awarded the Sports Book of the Year Award in the “Biography” category in Great Britain . The dream keeper tells the true story of the football goalkeeper Lars Leese .

Life

After graduating from the Eichendorff School in Kelkheim , Reng studied politics and communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was trained at the German School of Journalism . From 1996 to 2001 Reng lived and worked as a sports journalist in England, after which he lived in Barcelona for many years . He now lives with his family in Frankfurt and Bolzano . For years he wrote about football for the taz and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others , but also about fringe sports like women's hockey.

In 2007 he was invited to the Klagenfurt reading competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .

In 2010 he wrote the Robert Enke biography Robert Enke in collaboration with Teresa Enke. Too short a life .

Ronald Reng is an appointed member of the German Academy for Football Culture

Awards

Between 2001 and 2010 he was honored seven times in nine years with the Grand Prize of the Association of German Sports Journalists for the best sports report of the year. In 2010 he was awarded the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize “for outstanding journalistic contributions on the subject of reading culture”.

His book The Dream Keeper was awarded in 2004 in English translation Keeper of Dreams at the British Sports Books Awards as Best Biography .

In November 2011 he received the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in London for his biography of Robert Enke , which is considered the "oldest and most important sports book award in the world". Reng was the first author who does not write in English in 23 years to receive the award. In addition, his Enke biography was also named Football Book of the Year 2012 in Great Britain . In Poland, too, the work was voted “Sports Book of the Year” in 2015 by an expert jury. The book has since been translated into other languages ​​(including Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Chinese).

In 2013 he received game days from the German Academy for Football Culture for his work . The other story of the Bundesliga was named Football Book of the Year .

A jury, which included journalist and television presenter Roger Willemsen , drew game days. The other story of the Bundesliga is also evident with the NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis 2013. “Ronald Reng won over the jury with his unusual non-fiction book. Precisely researched, informative, exciting and at the same time literary, it tells the story of the Bundesliga from its beginnings to the present and describes in a clever and never boring way how the league developed into an entertainment and economic machine, ”said the jury's statement.

Like Spieltage , Mrosko's Talents was also awarded the Football Book of the Year award by the German Academy for Football Culture in 2016 .

Publications

• The dream keeper. The incredible story of a goalkeeper , 2002
• My life as an Englishman , 2003
• Keeper of Dreams , 2004
• Instructions for Use for London , 2004
• Cheater , 2005
• The world champions (with Horst Hamann), 2006
• The funny German , 2010
• Robert Enke. An all too short life (with Teresa Enke), 2010
• Match days. The other story of the Bundesliga , Piper Verlag , Munich / Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05592-5
• Barça - The great years . Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-98508-6
• Mrosko's Talents - The Amazing Life of a Bundesliga Scout , Piper Verlag , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05593-2
• Why we run , Piper Verlag , 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-05848-3
• Miro , Piper, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-05953-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Ronald Reng in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/ronald-reng
2. ↑ www.infocomma.net ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. (PDF) 
3. ↑ relaunch.journalistenpreise.de ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 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. 
4. ↑ Sports books Awards: previous winners , accessed February 9, 2018
5. ↑ www.boersenblatt.net
6. ↑ www.britishsportsbookawards.co.uk (Engl.)
7. ↑ www.sportowaksiazkaroku.pl ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 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. (pole.) 
8. ↑ The winner of the season has been determined. (No longer available online.) German Academy for Football Culture, August 27, 2013, archived from the original on August 31, 2013 ; Retrieved August 28, 2013 . 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.  
9. ↑ www.ndr.de ( Memento from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ A prize for "Mroskos talents". Retrieved October 31, 2016 .