Sven Felix Kellerhoff
Sven Felix Kellerhoff (* 1971 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian , journalist and non-fiction author .
Life and activity
Sven Kellerhoff is the younger son of Peter Kellerhoff (1930–2011), a former member of the board of the Industriekreditbank AG and the Berlin Housing Credit Institution . With a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , he studied v. a. at the Free University of Berlin Modern and Ancient History, Media Law and Journalism. He worked as a student assistant for Alexander Demandt and Henning Köhler . After graduating in 1995 as Master , he served as proof Free involved, including for the Berliner Zeitung , Die Welt , the Badische Zeitung and the Bavarian Radio . In 1997/98 Kellerhoff graduated from the Berlin School of Journalism . He has been working for Axel Springer Verlag since 1998 . From 2000 to 2002 he was head of the science department of the Berliner Morgenpost and from 2002 to 2003 he was responsible for cultural reporting in Berlin. Since 2003 he has been the chief editor for contemporary and cultural history in the world and the Berliner Morgenpost . Since December 2012 he has been responsible for the history channel of WELT / N24 .
Kellerhoff is also the author of various contemporary non-fiction books, including those on the stab in the back , the preventive war thesis , the Führerbunker , the Berlin escape tunnels , the history of the political assassination and the Red Army faction .
From 2005 to 2008 Kellerhoff was a member of the board of the Berlin regional association of the German Association of Journalists .
Together with Martin Lutz and Uwe Wilhelm, he wrote the crime novel Die Tote im Wannsee (2018).
Works (selection)
- German legends. On the 'stab in the back' and other myths of history (with Lars-Broder Keil ), Links Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-257-3 . on-line
- Assassin. Change the world with a ball. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-412-03003-1 .
- When the days turned to nights Berlin's fate in the bombing war. Wieland Giebel (Ed.), Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-929829-12-6 .
- Hitler's Berlin. Story of a love-hate relationship. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89809-061-2 .
- Berlin under the swastika. Berlin Edition, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8148-0147-4 .
- The myth of the Führerbunker. Hitler's last refuge. Berlin Story Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-929829-43-6 .
- Rumors make history. Serious false reports in the 20th century (with Lars-Broder Keil), Links Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86153-386-3 .
- On-site meeting in the middle. Searching for traces in Berlin's city center . Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-929829-57-0 .
- Reichstag fire . The career of a criminal case . be.bra, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89809-078-0 .
- The escape tunnel from Berlin . With Dietmar Arnold , Propylaen, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-549-07341-4 .
- "Kristallnacht": the November pogrom 1938 and the persecution of Berlin Jews from 1924 to 1945 . Berlin-Story-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-929829-66-2 .
- The Stasi and the West. The Kurras Complex. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50145-2 .
- Learn from history. In: Handbook for dealing with dictatorships. A project as part of the German-Tunisian transformation partnership “Contre l'oubli”. Ed. Foreign Office; Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0973-1 .
- Home front. The fall of the ideal world - Germany in the First World War. Quadriga Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86995-064-8 .
- Hitler's end. The sinking in the Führerbunker . Berlin-Story-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86368-019-0 .
- «My struggle». The career of a German book . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-94895-0 . Ebook ISBN 978-3-608-10839-2 . Reviews u. a. in the journal for historical science , ZFG, in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , SZ.
- The NSDAP. A party and its members. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-98103-2 . Review (among others) in literary criticism.
- Praise the Revolution. The birth of German democracy . WBG Theiss, Darmstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3805-1 .
- A completely normal pogrom: November 1938 in a German village. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-98104-9 . (A work about the pogrom night in 1938 in the Rheinhessen village of Guntersblum.)
- A brief history of the RAF. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-608-98221-3 .
Awards
- Honorary award of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial 2012
Web links
- Literature by and about Sven Felix Kellerhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reading samples from on-site meeting center ( Memento from December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff ( memento of March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at herder-verlag.de, accessed on May 21, 2014
- ↑ Peter Kellerhoff's obituary at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on December 9, 2019.
- ↑ https://uebermedien.de/32940/widersprueche-einfach-weg Klassen-so-schreiben-welt-geschichte /
- ↑ https://www.ullstein-buchverlage.de/nc/autoren/autor-detailansicht/name/lutz%20wilhelm-kellerhoff.html
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , ZFG H. 11, 2015, p. 1022ff
- ↑ Robert Probst, collective review: On the trail of a bestseller. SZ, October 12, 2015
- ↑ Josef Schmid: "The supposedly first account of the history of the NSDAP - Sven Kellerhoff's study offers no new insights" in literary criticism from December 2017
- ↑ Christian Gnatz, GiessenerAnzeiger October 4, 2019: A completely normal pogrom
- ↑ Klett-Cotta :: A short history of the RAF - Sven Felix Kellerhoff. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Erich Loest receives Hohenschönhausen Prize 2012 from derwesten.de, accessed on October 6, 2012
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kellerhoff, Sven Felix |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |