Sebastian Knauer (Author)

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Sebastian Knauer (born May 14, 1949 in Mannheim ) is a German journalist and author.

Life

Sebastian Knauer studied at universities in Munich , Mannheim and Montreal ; he finished his studies with a degree in economics . From 1970 he worked as a journalist for German broadcasters and the German press agency . From 1977 he was part of the editorial team of the Illustrierte Stern .

He achieved great fame in 1987 when, while researching the Barschel affair in the Geneva Hotel Beau-Rivage, he broke into the hotel room rented by Uwe Barschel , found his body in the bathtub and took the famous and at the same time one of the most controversial photos in press history .

From 1988 to 2010 Knauer was a member of the political department of the news magazine Der Spiegel and until 2015 supervised foundation projects of the SPIEGEL Group, such as the German Press Museum's development initiative and the House of Press Freedom Portal.

From 2000 he took on a teaching position at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Science at the University of Hamburg and works as a lecturer for the Fundraising Academy Frankfurt / Main, CSR manager training course. In 2018, after ten years, he left the jury of the CSR Award of the Kolping Bildungswerk , Stuttgart, formerly CSR Forum dokeo, due to a lack of transparency and greenwashing .

Knauer is volunteering at the Hamburg main church St.Katharinen , in the construction and music maintenance of the reconstruction project "an organ for Bach" in the Foundation Johann Sebastian (SJS), within the framework of the organization of the annual concert format "Zappa plays for Bach" since 2008 as well as the CD publications Edition-SJS.

In addition to his journalistic work , Sebastian Knauer published non-fiction and detective novels .

Works

  • No beautiful country , Hamburg 1979 (together with Emanuel Eckardt )
  • Do we love the USA? , Hamburg 1987
  • Please do not disturb , Zurich 1994
  • Please do not lean out , Berlin 1995
  • Erich lives , Berlin 1999
  • Die Recherche , Frankfurt am Main 1999
  • Deadly Cantatas , Hamburg, 2011
  • Murderous Mozart Child, Hamburg 2018

Editing

  • Environmental summit in Rio , Hamburg 1992
  • The forest continues to die , Hamburg 1992
  • Europe on the move , Hamburg 1993
  • Operation Gomorrah , Hamburg 1993
  • Day of German Unity , Hamburg 1993
  • Way out of the crisis? , Hamburg 1993
  • "On the front line" , Hamburg 1994
  • Clear cutting for the kiosk? , Hamburg 1994
  • Two fatherlands? , Hamburg 1994
  • Spies in Space , Hamburg 1995
  • Barschel - the files , Berlin 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ By Ludwig Greven: 25 years of Waterkantgate: Uwe Barschel must not rest. Retrieved January 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Knauer, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim