Volker Resing

Volker Resing (* 1970 in Münster ) is a German journalist and publicist .

Resing spent his childhood and youth in Borghorst. He studied German language and literature and history on the state examination at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He worked as a freelancer at the Münsterschen Zeitung and as a volunteer at the Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt . During his training he was a McCloy Fellow in New York, where he worked for the German-Jewish newspaper Aufbau .

From 1998 to 2002 he was editor of the regional newspaper Westfälische Nachrichten . In 2002 he went to Berlin as the capital correspondent for the Oldenburgische Volkszeitung , where he also worked for the newspapers of the diocese press group. From 2009 to 2014 he worked in his own position for the independent Catholic news agency .

Since 2014 he has been editor- in- chief at the Catholic publishing house Herder from Freiburg and the Herder Korrespondenz magazine . In 2015 he also became a member of the management of Herder Verlag. Resing publishes several books and articles etc. a. at (m) Cicero , Märkische Allgemeine , Berliner Morgenpost , Die Zeit , Christ und Welt , Die Welt and The European .

He is a member of the Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany .

Resing is married with two children and lives in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

• The new theater building in Münster. Cultural-political conflicts 1949–1956 (= Small Writings from the Münster City Archives . Vol. 3). Regensberg, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-7923-0733-2 .
• (Ed.): Candles and prayers. A spiritual reader on the peaceful revolution in 1989 . Benno, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-7462-2754-2 .
• Angela Merkel. The Protestant. A portrait . Benno, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-7462-2648-4 . (Revised and supplemented new edition, 2015)
• (Ed.): Annette Schavan : God is greater than we believe. Visions for the Church and the world . Benno, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-7462-2909-6 .
• Werner Remmers . The power of political Catholicism . 2nd edition, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-30522-1 .
• The Chancellor's machine. How the CDU works . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30592-4 .
• (Ed.): Angela Merkel : I believe in that. Christian viewpoints . Benno, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-7462-3774-9 .
• (Ed.): Pope Francis : Europe, wake up !. The Strasbourg speeches . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-06805-8 .
• Julia Klöckner in conversation with Volker Resing and Martin Rupps: Trust !. Ideas instead of ideologies - what is important to me in politics . Freiburg im Breisgau u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-31114-7 .
• with Stefan Orth (ed.): AfD, Pegida and Co. Attack on religion? . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-27466-4 .
• (Ed.): Hans Joas , Robert Spaemann : Praying in fog. Does Faith Have a Future? Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-27149-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Resing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Volker Resing at perlentaucher.de
• Volker Resing at the Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany
• Volker Resing at Herder Publishing
• Volker Resing at Herder Korrespondenz

Individual evidence

1. ^ V. Resing: Between Borghorst and Berlin, in: J. Röser (ed.), Gott? The religious question today. Freiburg i. Br. 2018. pp. 96-100.