Stefan from Kempis

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Stefan von Kempis (born February 9, 1970 in Bonn ) is a German journalist. Since 2019 he has been head of the German-speaking department of Vatican News , formerly Vatican Radio .

Life

Stefan von Kempis attended the Jesuit-led Aloisius College in Bonn. He studied history, theology and literature in Bonn, Paris and Freiburg as well as Arabic and Islamic studies at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome and Cairo. He also completed a compact television course at the Catholic School of Journalism ifp in Munich. He then worked as an editor at the TV production company 6w-film in Münster.

In 1995 he became editor at Vatican Radio, since 2001 as deputy editor-in-chief and since 2017 as acting director. In 2019 he succeeded Bernd Hagenkord SJ and took over the management of the German-speaking department of Vatican News (until 2017 Vatican Radio). Since Radio Vatican was founded in 1931, von Kempis has been the first layman to head the German-speaking department.

He has published several books. Von Kempis is married and has two children.

Fonts

  • together with Benedict XVI. (Author), Lucio Coco (Ed.): Those who hope can live differently. Words to young people , Herder Verlag 2012
  • A call to serve. Pope Francis and the Catholic future , New York 2013
  • Do not let hope be taken away from you - words of the Popes , Herder Verlag 2013
  • Pope Francis: Who he is, how he thinks, what to expect , Herder Verlag 2013
  • Three popes and their favorite saints. Personal thoughts of John Paul II, Benedict XVI. and Francis. , Herder Verlag 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Change of staff: Stefan von Kempis heads the German editorial team" on vaticannews.va from August 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kempis, Stefan von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, head of the German-language editorial team at Vatican News
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn