Simon Benne

Simon Benne (left) with Holocaust survivor Henry Korman in 2016 at Andor Izsák's birthday party in Villa Seligmann

Simon Benne (* 1970 ) is a German journalist and nonfiction - author .

Life

After graduating from the St. Ursula School in the southern part of Hanover in 1990 , Simon Benne studied German and history in Göttingen at the Georg-August University and in the Italian city of Bologna at the Università there . In 1999 he wrote his master’s thesis in Göttingen on the subject of Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra VII. Power development, ruling representation and political conception .

Benne in an interview with Martin Kind at the 350th anniversary celebration of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (Photo: 2015)

Shortly after the turn of the millennium, Simon Benne started working as an editor for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) in the Lower Saxony state capital . Since 2002 he has also repeatedly dealt with the history of Hanover and its personalities. He published - often through the Madsack media agency - occasionally as a co-author, for example about the Hannover 96 goalkeeper Robert Enke , wrote anthologies and wrote the stories of people displaced after the Second World War and their fates in the post-war period : his book Fremde Heimat . As the displaced to Hanover came he put in a charity - reading in favor of the HAZ Christmas Charity the end of 2017 in the Historical Museum Hannover ago.

Simon Benne lives in Laatzen with his wife and four children .

Fonts (selection)

• Sandhya Wilde-Gupta (Red.), Heiko Rehberg, Carina Peitsch, Simon Benne et al. , Ulrich zur Nieden (photos): Robert Enke. The goalkeeper. The star. Der Freund , 3rd edition, Hanover: [Madsack Supplement], 2010, ISBN 978-3-940308-44-3 ; contents
• Firstborn, middle child and baby boy , anthology, 3rd edition, publisher: Madsack Medienagentur GmbH & Co. KG, 2016, ISBN 978-3-940308-99-3 and ISBN 3-940308-99-4 ; contents
• 66 days. A journey through the history of Hanover , publisher: Madsack Medienagentur GmbH & Co. KG, 2016, ISBN 978-3-946544-07-4 and ISBN 3-946544-07-X ; contents
• When peace came to Hanover , 3rd edition, Hanover: Madsack Medienagentur, 2017, ISBN 978-3-940308-93-1 and ISBN 3-940308-93-5
• Simon Benne (text), Susann Heller (project leader): Fremde Heimat. When the displaced came to Hanover , 1st edition, Hanover: Madsack Medienagentur, 2017, ISBN 978-3-946544-11-1 and ISBN 3-946544-11-8

Web links

Commons : Simon Benne  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Video clips with Simon Benne on youtube .com
• Simon Benne in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ↑ Simon Benne: 25 years after graduating from high school, Mr. Junker and I: Reunion with a teacher ... , on the page Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from September 5, 2015, updated on September 8, 2015, last accessed on December 5, 2017
3. ↑ Hans Kammel: Ursula School, St.-U.-Sch. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 636.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Simon Benne: The author , in this: Fremde Heimat. When the displaced came to Hanover , 1st edition, Hanover: Madsack Medienagentur, 2017, ISBN 978-3-946544-11-1 and ISBN 3-946544-11-8 , p. 112
5. ↑ HxCLobbys: Benefit reading in the Historical Museum , video clip on youtube from December 3, 2017