Tatjana Countess Dönhoff

Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff (* 1959 in Munich ) is a German journalist and author.

Tatjana Countess Dönhoff grew up in Tanzania, Ireland and Germany. After graduating from high school, she completed an apprenticeship as a publishing clerk at the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , M.DuMont Schauberg, in Cologne. Afterwards she studied politics, history and journalism in Hamburg (exam: diploma political scientist 1986) and worked as a reporter for Stern magazine . In 1989 she went to Philadelphia , USA, on a scholarship (Arthur F. Burns, now IJP) to work as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer . When the German / German border fell, she came back and wrote for Stern from the GDR and the new federal states . In 1991 she left Germany and became a senior reporter at The European in London. Four years later, as chief reporter and consultant at Gruner + Jahr, she developed the celebrity magazine Gala until it was ready for the market, became editor-in-chief of the German / English magazine Oskar’s and left G + J in 1997 to become chief reporter and consultant to the editor-in-chief at Max , Verlag Milchstraße. In 1999 she founded the media company brain drain in Hamburg.

Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff has also been a book author since 2004. She produced her first book Weit ist der Weg nach Westen (2004), a reportage photo book. Together with the photographer Jo Röttger, she embarked on the escape route of her great aunt Marion Dönhoff and her grandfather Dieter Graf Dönhoff from East Prussia to Westphalia . She researched for three winter months in northern Poland, and a political travel book was created about former East Prussia and present-day Poland shortly before joining the EU.

Dönhoff went on the trail of the largely unknown life story of Princess Diana's opponent and published the only German-language biography about Camilla Parker-Bowles , who became the new Duchess of Cornwall during the research.

She wrote the book for the film for the ARD history two-parter Die Flucht with Maria Furtwängler in 2007, as well as for Die Gustloff , the ZDF drama about the greatest shipwreck of all time in spring 1945. Dönhoff continues to work as a journalist for German and English-language magazines and with her company brain drain in the field of corporate publishing . She lives in Hamburg and on the Oste .

plant

• The way to the west is long. On Marion Countess Dönhoff's escape route . Nicolai Verlag , Berlin 2004. ISBN 978-3-89479-215-2
• Camilla . Diana-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-453-28503-3 (biography)
• The escape . Bloomsbury, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8289-9068-5 (novel) Script Gabriela Sperl
• The Gustloff . Bloomsbury, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0776-6 (novel) screenplay Rainer Berg
• The last ride of the Hindenburg . Bloomsbury, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0832-9 (novel) screenplay Johannes Betz

Web links

• Literature by and about Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• brain, brain website of the company
• Short biography and reviews of works by Tatjana Gräfin Dönhoff at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tatjana Countess Dönhoff, Rainer Berg: Die Gustloff at Kulturforum.info, accessed on November 16, 2015.
2. ↑ Sabine Minkwitz: In the footsteps of Countess Dönhoff at Abendblatt.de, accessed on November 16, 2015.
3. ↑ The story of a family and two nations at hiergeblieben.de, accessed on November 16, 2015.
4. ^ Witnesses to the East Prussian past at fuersie.de, accessed on November 16, 2015.