Uwe Rada

Uwe Rada (* 1963 in Göppingen ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

After finishing school in Baden-Württemberg , Uwe Rada began studying history and German at the Free University of Berlin in 1983 . Since then, Rada has lived and worked in Berlin , where he initially worked in the transport industry, including as a truck driver. He has been writing for taz as a journalist since 1994 . Uwe Rada is married to the landscape planner and scientist Inka Schwand.

After initially focusing on issues of urban development, his journalistic and literary work has a focus on Eastern Europe and especially on German-Polish relations . A topic that Rada explains, among other things, with the geographical proximity between his home in Berlin and Poland. His works on the great European rivers Elbe , Oder and Memel have also been translated into Polish and Belarusian.

Publications

• Rent report . Links, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-86153-026-8 .
• Capital of displacement: the future of Berlin between the neighborhood and the metropolis . Black cracks , Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-924737-39-9 .
• Berlin barbarians: how the east gets to the west . BasisDruck, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-86163-115-6 .
• In between: European stories from the German-Polish border area . be.bra-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-89809-045-2 .
• The Oder: the course of a river . Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-378-01079-6 .
  • Odra: życiorys pewnej rzeki . Wojnowce KEW, Wrocław 2015, ISBN 978-83-7893-129-4 (Polish).
• Together with Inka Schwand: Poland blown away . Ed. q, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86124-605-3 .
• Together with Inka Schwand: Baltic encounters: traveling in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania . Ed. q, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86124-620-6 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2012111518300 .
• The Memel: cultural history of a European river . Siedler, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88680-930-1 .
  • Halasy Panjamonnja: historyja, kul ʹ tura, le ͏̈ sy adnaho eŭrapejskaha abšaru . Tėchnalohija, Minsk 2011, ISBN 978-985-458-212-2 (Belarusian).
  • Niemen: dzieje pewnej europejskiej rzeki . Wydawn. Borussia, Olsztyn 2012, ISBN 978-83-8923373-8 (Polish).
• The Elbe: Europe's history in the river . Siedler, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-88680-995-0 .
• The Adriatic: Rediscovery of a place of longing . Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-55222-3 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201409075856 .
  • Adriatyk: miejsca, ludzie, historie . Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2016, ISBN 978-83-233-4068-3 (Polish).
• 1988 . Novel. edition.fotoTAPETA, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-940524-65-2 .

As editor

• Focus on water: Brandenburg's cultural landscape in transition . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-7338-0359-9 .
• Metabolism: Brandenburg and Berlin on the move . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-7338-0365-0 .
• Bürgerland Brandenburg: Democracy and democracy movements between the Elbe and the Oder . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-7338-0368-1 .
• The forgotten border. A European journey from Upper Silesia to the Baltic Sea . be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86124-718-0 .

Others

taz author abbreviation

For short articles in the printed edition of the taz, the author abbreviation WERA stands for Uwe Rada

Web links

• Literature by and about Uwe Rada in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Uwe Rada at perlentaucher.de
• Personal website of Uwe Rada
• Article by Uwe Rada in the taz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV. Retrieved April 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ A Berliner in love. 2017, accessed April 13, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Uwe Rada - In love with Poland. January 27, 2018, accessed April 13, 2018 . 
4. ↑ UWE RADA: It's more of a village than a city . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 26, 2013, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 23 ( taz.de [accessed on August 14, 2020]).