Ulrich Hesse

Ulrich "Uli" Hesse , also ~ Hesse-Lichtenberger , (born February 8, 1966 in Dortmund ) is a German sports journalist and author .

Life

Hesse studied English and German at the Ruhr University in Bochum, the subject of his master's thesis was " Baseball and American Myths ".

After his studies he worked as a freelance journalist for numerous German magazines and newspapers (including Süddeutsche Zeitung , taz , Rolling Stone , soccer magazine Hattrick). But he was best known for his reporting on German football in foreign media. From February 1996 Hesse wrote for the British soccer magazine FourFourTwo , six years later he published the first book in English that dealt extensively with the history of German football (" Tor! The Story of German Football "). Between 2002 and 2016 he wrote more than 400 columns for the American website ESPN FC. The column at the end of the season, in which Hesse has been researching every year since 2003 whether the Bundesliga continues to be the league with the most goals per game - and why - was particularly popular.

Hesse worked for a year as editor-in-chief of the German edition of the official UEFA magazine on the Champions League ("Champions", later "Champions Matchday") and subsequently worked as an advisory editor for the English edition until the publication was discontinued in 2015. He has been part of the editorial team of the German magazine 11Freunde since autumn 2016 . Two of his German-language books were nominated by the German Academy for Football Culture for the "Football Book of the Year" award. His English-language book about Borussia Dortmund , " Building the Yellow Wall ", won the British Sports Book Award 2019 in the football category.

Until October 2009, Hesse published under the name Hesse-Lichtenberger.

He is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture.

Works

• Goal! The Story of German Football. 2002, ISBN 0-9540134-3-3 .
• Floodlights and shadows: the history of the European Cup. 2005, ISBN 3-89533-474-X .
• How Austria became world champion. 111 incredible football stories. 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-597-6 .
• with Andreas Spohr and Heiko Buschmann: Mesut Özil: On the way to becoming a world star. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7688-3528-2 .
• Goal! Histories om tysk fodbold. 2012, ISBN 978-87-92660-10-7 .
• with Gregor Schnittker : Our whole life - The fans of BVB. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7307-0014-3 .
• with Paul Simpson: Who Invented the Stepover? 2013, ISBN 978-1-78125-006-8 .
• Goal! The Story of German Football. Extended new edition. 2013, ISBN 978-0-9561011-3-6 .
• Goal! Historia niemieckiej pilki noznej. 2014, ISBN 978-83-937251-0-6 .
• with Paul Simpson: Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? 2014, ISBN 978-0-06-234694-0 .
• as co-author of Werner Hansch : … Everything else is Schnulli-Bulli! My crazy reporter life. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7307-0135-5 .
• with Paul Simpson: Who Invented the Stepover? 2015, ISBN 978-3-7307-0179-9 .
• Everything BVB! Indispensable knowledge about the black and yellow. 2016, ISBN 978-3-7307-0247-5 .
• Bavaria: Creating a Global Superclub. 2016, ISBN 978-0-224-10010-6 .
• Bayern Munich: eighth de Schermen van de record champions. 2016, ISBN 978-94-004-0413-7 .
• Bavaria: Globalny super club. 2018, ISBN 978-83-8129-101-9 .
• Bavaria: Egy globális szuperklub születése. 2018, ISBN 978-963-406-448-0 .
• Building the Yellow Wall: The Incredible Rise and Cult Appeal of Borussia Dortmund. 2018, ISBN 978-1-4746-0624-0 .
• Borussia Dortmund. Siła żółtej ściany. 2019, ISBN 978-1-4746-0624-0

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Westphalian News
• Biography on the website of the Jenny Brown Associates agency
• Interview with Uli Hesse
• Uli Hesse's ESPN columns

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mid-term discussion with Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger - schwatzgelb.de .
2. ↑ Brought to book . In: espnfc.com .
3. ^ Toby Charles: The man who brought German football to the US . In: espnfc.com .
4. ↑ Tales of the unexpected . In: UEFA.com .
5. ↑ What's the score with the Bundesliga? . In: espnfc.com .
6. ^ About the person: Talk guest Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger .
7. ↑ Haymarket Network launches Champions Matchday magazine .
8. ↑ How Austria became world champion. 111 unbelievable football stories in publishing the workshop . Retrieved March 15, 2016.
9. ^ Football Book of the Year 2015: The Prize Winners from Die Werkstatt publishing house. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
10. ↑ Football Book of the Year 2019 sportsbookawards.com. June 4, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019.
11. ↑ What is in a name? espnfc.com. October 20, 2009, accessed March 15, 2016.
12. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/ulrich-uli-hesse