Tom Ockers

Thomas "Tom" Ockers (born November 18, 1962 in Düsseldorf ) is a German journalist , filmmaker and marathon runner .

Life

He began his journalistic career at the age of 17 at the Rheinische Post , studied philosophy , German and journalism and worked, among other things, as a stand builder and German teacher for foreigners, before he began working for NDR in 1989 as a television editor and producer. Ockers has been working as a freelancer since 1998. In 1999 he received the Hamburg Satire Prize . In 2001, he ran into Siberia the Ice Marathon and documented his experiences in 2002 in the book Ice run .

Personal

Tom Ockers has a son (* 1997; from his marriage to Eva Herman 1995–2002), his second marriage is to the author and journalist Maiken Nielsen and lives in Hamburg.

Filmography

• 2008: My GDR
• 2011: My united Germany - wild years after the fall of the wall, broadcast on October 3rd, 2011 on the first German TV channel ARD
• 2014: Germany, your artists , episode 32, Axel Milberg , broadcast on November 9, 2014 on ARD's first German television
• 2017: The Luther Matrix, ARD
• 2018: Plan B: Jogging in math class, ZDF
• 2018: The billion dollar business: Germany, China and football, ARD
• 2019: File D: Banks Out of Control, ARD
• 2019: BlackRock . The uncanny power of a financial corporation. (90 minutes; Arte on September 17, 2019; Arte Mediathek until December 15, 2019 ) (Was also available on ZDFinfo under the title Schattenmacht Blackrock .)

literature

• Ice skating. In the cold of the Siberia marathon. List-Taschenbuch, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-548-68031-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Tom Ockers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tom Ockers website
• Biography ( memento of June 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on the MDR website
• Interview with Ockers about the ice marathon
• TV documentary by Thomas Ockers about the Stasi

Individual evidence

1. ↑ There was never so much fate! in: FAZ from October 1, 2011, page 40