Stephan Pinkert

Stephan Pinkert (born June 14, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German civil servant , sociologist and author .

Professional background

Pinkert attended the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice from 1984 to 1987 with a degree in administration. From 1988 to 2001 he was a senior civil servant in the service of the city of Braunschweig , most recently as deputy administrative director of the city health department. During this time, from 1992 to 1999, he completed a part-time course in political science, sociology and law at the FernUniversität Hagen with a Master's degree (MA). From 2001 to 2006 Pinkert was press spokesman and head of the press office of the city of Wolfenbüttel . In 2007 he moved to the Department for Organization and Public Relations at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection in Salzgitter . In 2013 he published his first crime novel with Feine Herren , which was followed by Velvet Red Thirst for Vengeance in 2016 . Since 2010 he has been a managing board member of the Wolfenbütteler Heimatstiftung, which is involved in child and youth welfare .

Pinkert has made a name for himself as a wine author with his book Weinmilieus, a small sociology of wine drinking based on his final thesis. The book has so far reached the third edition. Pinkert also operates the electronic wine information letter wein-post.de on the Internet .

Publications (selection)

• Erich Fromm : Ethics and Politics . (Review), Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Issue 4/1997.
• Civil society as a great political vision . (five-part series), Braunschweiger Zeitung - Wolfenbütteler Zeitung and Anzeiger, 2002.
• 35 years later: New irritations - old opponents . Review by: Becker, H. ua (ed.): The 68ers and their opponents. Resistance to the Cultural Revolution . www.politik-buch.de, 2004.
• The first city complex designed according to plan. A short history of the city of Wolfenbüttel . Braunschweiger Zeitung - Wolfenbütteler Zeitung and Anzeiger, 2004.
• Former viticulture in south-east Lower Saxony . German Viticulture Yearbook, 2007.
• Fine wines from the Braunschweig region . Braunschweiger Zeitung, 2007.
• Who drinks which wine and why? A brief introduction to the sociology of wine drinking , in: German Wine-growing Yearbook 2010, Stuttgart 2009.
• Empty glasses, empty words? Notes on wine prose , in: Deutsches Weinbau-Jahrbuch 2011, Stuttgart 2010.
• The first wine book bestseller: "The Wine Guide" by Reinhard Koester , in: German Wine-growing Yearbook 2012, Stuttgart 2011.
• Small canon of wine literature , in: Deutsches Weinbau-Jahrbuch 2013, Stuttgart 2012

Books

• Trail mix. Cookbook for the student kitchen . BLV Buchverlag GmbH & Co., 1988.
• Nationalism and globalization . Röhrig University Press, 2000.
• Wine milieus - Small sociology of drinking wine . LIT Verlag, 2004.
• Wolfenbüttel. City of culture with flair . by Meyer Joh.Heinr., 2006.
• Pure wine? . KSB-Media Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-941-56414-5 .
• Fine gentlemen . KSB-Media Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-941564-55-8
• Velvet red thirst for revenge. KSB-Media Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3946105497

Web links

• wein-post.de
• heimatstiftung.de