Thomas Wieczorek

Thomas Wieczorek (born February 7, 1953 in Berlin ; † November 12, 2013 there ) was a German author and freelance journalist .

Education and career

From 1963 to 1972 Wieczorek attended the Canisius College in Berlin , where he graduated from high school. He then studied economics at the Free University of Berlin . Thomas Wieczorek graduated with a diploma in 1976.

From 1977 Wieczorek completed a one-year traineeship at dpa and was then editor for politics there until 1979. From 1979 to 1981 he was office manager at Reuters in Stuttgart , from 1981 to 1983 chief reporter at Bild in Hamburg . He stopped working for Bild in 1983 and worked as a freelance journalist and book author.

He wrote his dissertation on The Normality of Political Corruption : The Leuna / Minol Example with Peter Grottian at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 2003 “ cum laude ” .

Thomas Wieczorek worked for various daily newspapers and since 1989 regularly for the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel . As an investigative journalist , Thomas Wieczorek described alleged excesses of the political system. With his book Die Verblödete Republik , the author reached number 2 in the paperback bestseller list of the political magazine Der Spiegel, issue 35/2009.

As a member of the editorial team, Thomas Wieczorek was a co-founder of the online publication Zeitschrift für Unfinige Zeiten (editors Florian Havemann , Helge Meves and Daniel Küchenmeister). There, too, he occasionally wrote articles. The project has been discontinued since the beginning of October 2011 and is no longer available online.

Wieczorek says he was a Maoist as a young man . He was a member of the SPD for 22 years .

He died on November 12, 2013 after a long and serious illness.

Works

• Papa, what's an Ossi? A turn and turn book. Eulenspiegel-Verlag , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-359-00986-X .
• The Lexicon of the German Leading Culture. Rake, Kiel 2001, ISBN 3-931476-58-8 .
• 101 reasons not to choose. Rake, Kiel 2002.
• Corruption and Competence. Considerations on the functioning of German politics. spotless, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-933544-85-8 .
• The cook book. Knaur , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-77756-8 .
• The bunglers. Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-77804-1 .
• Black Book Officials. Knaur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-77935-4 .
• The Dax Knights. Knaur, Munich 2008.
• Die Profitgeier - How incompetent managers ruin our country, Knaur, Munich March 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-78027-5 .
• The stupid republic. Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-78098-5 .
• The amateurs. Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-78266-8 .
• The sacked republic. Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-78373-3 .
• Unity and justice and stupidity: why we are no longer poets and thinkers. Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-78407-5 .
• Euroland - Where our money burns. Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-78446-4 .
• The Rebel Republic - Why We Can't Be Fooled Any More Knaur, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-78443-3 .
• The Lubricated Republic - How politicians, officials and business leaders can be bought. Knaur, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-78519-5 .
• Worn out - Why our country is declining and who is making money from it, Knaur, Munich April 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-78520-1 .
• Die Volksverblöder - How politicians lie and deceive us, Knaur, Munich August 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-78615-4 .
• Be smart, go into construction - what's really going on in the country, Eugenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-359-02397-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Wieczorek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Wieczorek at Droemer and Knaur
• Documentation of the magazine for unfinished thoughts (October 2005 to October 2011)
• Interview in the taz on August 3, 2009 ( Memento from August 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Best-selling author Thomas Wieczorek has died . In: boersenblatt.net , November 12, 2013.