Thomas Kielinger

Thomas Kielinger (2016)

Thomas Kielinger (born July 1940 in Danzig ) is a German journalist and author who was the world's correspondent in London for many years .

Life

Kielinger was born in Gdansk in 1940 as the youngest of six children. He studied English , German and Philosophy (MA) at the Universities of Münster and Bochum and at the University College Cardiff in Wales, where he worked as a lecturer at the German Department in the 1960s.

In February 1971, Kielinger joined the feature section of the newspaper Welt as a literary critic . The paper sent him to Washington, DC , in 1977 with the beginning of President Jimmy Carter's term as USA correspondent , until the end of Ronald Reagan's first term .

Returning in 1985, he became editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur , until in 1994 he went freelance as an author and consultant for political foundations . He rejoined the world in 1998, this time as a correspondent in London.

Kielinger was a member of the jury of the Theodor Wolff Prize and the steering committee of the German-English Königswinter Conference of the German-British Society for several years . He is a regular contributor to the BBC and other British and German media outlets.

Several books testify to his interest in German-British subjects. After “The intersection and the roundabout - Germans and British at the center of European history” (Bouvier 1997; also in English: “Crossroads and Roundabouts” ), his country portrait “Great Britain” appeared in 2009 in the CH Beck series “The Germans and their neighbors ” (edited by Richard v. Weizsäcker and Helmut Schmidt). In 2011 a biography followed, "Elizabeth II. - The life of the Queen" (also with CH Beck, 2014 also with dtv), which was honored in the Times Literary Supplement.

In 2014, Kielinger added another biography to his list of publications. "Winston Churchill - Der late Held", 5th edition 2015, then as paperback. An audio book version from Verlag BonneVoice, Munich, on 11 CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich, was published in 2015.

In spring 2019 a biography of the Tudor Queen Elizabeth I followed.

Awards

• 2016: Honorary Fellow at Cardiff University and St. Mary College, London
• 2001: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
• 1995: Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
• 1993: Fellow at the School of Journalism, Cardiff
• 1990: Carlo Schmid Prize , together with Gerhard von Glinski, "for an exemplary controversy on the question of the future German capital"
• 1984: Theodor Wolff Prize , for a report from America

Fonts

• "The Queen: Elizabeth I and the Battle for England" , CH Beck Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73237-9
• "Little History of Great Britain" , CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68953-6
• “Winston Churchill. The late hero. A biography " , CH Beck Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66889-0
• "Elizabeth II. The life of the Queen" , CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62360-8
• "Great Britain" , CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57849-6
• “The intersection and the roundabout. Germans and British at the Center of European History ” , Bouvier 1997, ISBN 3-416-02668-3
• "Crossroads and roundabouts - junctions in German-British Relations" , Bouvier 1997, ISBN 3-416-02668-3
• “Orpheus in the Intercity. Poems and Essay " , Neske Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7885-0342-4
• “In the wake of freedom. Essays on Politics and Culture ” , Bouvier 1991, ISBN 3-416-02316-1
• "What to do with Germany? United on the threshold of a difficult decade ” (Ed.), Bouvier 1991, ISBN 3-416-02309-9

Web links

Commons : Thomas Kielinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Thomas Kielinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Kielinger: "Globalization and the nation state"
• Thomas Kielinger: "We Germans Can Never Escape" (The Observer May 30, 2004 )