Tissy Bruns

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Christiane "Tissy" Bruns (born January 1, 1951 in Zeitz ; † February 20, 2013 ) was a German journalist . From 1999 to 2003 she was chairwoman of the federal press conference .

Life

At the age of 6, she and her family moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany . She completed a teaching degree for elementary and secondary schools with the subjects history and mathematics and was a member of the leadership of the Marxist Student Union Spartakus (MSB) during her studies in the 1970s . From 1975 to 1977 she was a consultant to the board of the United German Student Unions (VDS); After completing her legal clerkship , she was the first woman to be a member of the VDS board in 1979. After she left there, from 1981 she worked for the party executive of the DKP and a member of the Marxist student union Spartakus . In 1989 she left the party. Since then she has distanced herself from communism and the DKP.

Since 1984 she has worked as a journalist, first for the Deutsche Volkszeitung . From 1991 until Parliament moved to Berlin in the summer of 1999, she was a parliamentary correspondent in Bonn, initially writing for the daily newspaper , later for the Stern and the Wochenpost .

From 1997 she was a correspondent for the Berliner Tagesspiegel . From April 2001 to April 2003 she headed the Berlin correspondent office of the daily newspaper Die Welt , after which she switched back to Tagesspiegel.

A detailed interview of her with Franz Müntefering was published in his 2008 book Macht Politik! printed.

Tissy Bruns was married and had a son. She lived in Berlin since 1999 and died of cancer in 2013.

Publications

  • Tissy Bruns: Republic of the busy people . A report from Berlin. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-28715-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tissy Bruns journalist in conversation with Susanne Frank. In: br-online.de , January 3, 2008 ( PDF ; 53 kB).
  2. ^ Nico Fried: Sensible chronicler. In: Süddeutsche.de , February 21, 2013, accessed on February 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Candidate for the DKP in the 1980 federal election in 9th place on the NRW state list
  4. ↑ Tissy Bruns: The lying innocence of the do-gooders. In: Die Zeit , January 8, 2011.
  5. ^ Franz Müntefering with Tissy Bruns: Make politics! Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Tissy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruns, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 2013