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Uwe Kopf (born February 10, 1956 in Kaiserslautern , † January 9, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist .

Kopf lived as a freelance author in Hamburg . Most recently he wrote the TV head of the day column for BZ and Faces magazine since 2006 and for Rolling Stone since 2010 .

When lifestyle - magazine Tempo he was from 1990 to 1996 worked as a " Star columnist " and copy editor . After that he worked for the Spiegel among others . He wrote for Theo and was editor-in-chief for the magazine. He was also involved in the anniversary edition of Tempo in 2006. On January 9, 2017, Kopf died of cancer shortly after being diagnosed. He was able to finish work on his novel “The Elf Brains of the Silkworm”, so that it will appear posthumously at the end of April 2017 by Hoffmann und Campe .

Fonts

• The scarlet letter. In: Christian Kracht ( ed. ): Mesopotamia: an avant-pop reader. dtv , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-12916-6 .
• The eleven brains of the silkworm caterpillar. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3455000573

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} "TV head of the day" author: On the death of BZ columnist Uwe Kopf , BZ , January 10, 2017
2. ↑ Obituary for Uwe Kopf: The Enchanter , Rolling Stone , January 11, 2017
3. ^ Magazines: Smiling corpse , Der Spiegel 16/1996, April 15, 1996
4. ↑ Jens Schröder: Tempo on retromedia.de from December 8, 2006, accessed on May 30, 2014.
5. ↑ FACES: New columnists with Maxim Biller, Tom Kummer and Uwe Kopf on persoenlich.com from March 16, 2005, accessed on May 30, 2014.
6. ↑ Uwe Kopf - All reviews and articles. Rolling Stone , accessed May 30, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Uwe Kopf: Exchange: Money or Love - Confessions of a stock exchange grouch. Der Spiegel , February 1, 1998, accessed May 30, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Brigitte Haertel: Farewell to Uwe Kopf . In: Theo , Volume 2017, Issue 1, p. 63.
9. ↑ Comeback of “Tempo”: Zeitgeist reloaded. In: Spiegel Online . July 14, 2006, accessed May 30, 2014 .