Wolfgang Görl

Wolfgang Görl (born December 19, 1954 in Munich ) is a German journalist , reporter and columnist .

Life

He grew up in Graefelfing near Munich, where he attended high school and even then showed a strong fondness for rock music. After high school and community service, Wolfgang Görl studied German and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University .

From 1984 to 1997 he worked as an editor for the Starnberg local section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich).

Since 1997 he has been working as a reporter for the Munich local section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, for “Seite 3” and other departments, and as a graffiti author.

Wolfgang Görl is also involved in the cultural landscape of Munich in a variety of ways . B. since 2007 as a guitarist in collaboration with Wilhelm Raabe (alias Tiger Willi ), and in the Oskar Maria Graf Society as its second deputy chairman.

Award

• Theodor Wolff Prize 2005 - Journalist Prize of the German newspapers in the local category,
• Herwig Weber Prize 2010 - Prize of the Munich Press Club

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

• Wolfgang Görl: The Prince Regent , the Beauty and the Beer. Munich activities. (= Picus reading trips), Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85452-907-4 .
• Joachim Käppner (Hrsg.), Wolfgang Görl (Hrsg.), Christian Mayer (Hrsg.): Munich - The history of the city. (= Süddeutsche Zeitung Library), Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-622-7 .
• Ernst Fischer, Dieter Hanitzsch , Wolfgang Görl: Wahnsinns-Wiesn. Final truths about Oktoberfest . (= Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition), Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86615-723-1 .
• Wolfgang Görl (Hrsg.), Gerald Kleffmann (Hrsg.): Once a lion, always a lion. TSV 1860 Munich - The white-blue myth. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86615-833-7 .

Article (in selection)

• Why still intellectuals? (PDF; 162 kB) Review of Hauke ​​Brunkhorst : The disenchanted intellectual. About the new arbitrariness of thinking. Hamburg 1990. In: Contradiction. No. 22 (1992), pp. 72-74.

• Aesthetics of the national. Review of Christoph Menke : The sovereignty of art. Frankfurt / Main 1991. In: Contradiction. No. 26 (1994), pp. 103-106.

• Cast out by the family. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. (Munich), June 17, 2004. (awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize 2005 - Journalist Prize of the German newspapers)

• Robbery of a Rossknecht: How Hitler's leading thug Christian Weber makes a career and promotes his private business with violence , In: Joachim Käppner (Ed.), Wolfgang Görl (Ed.), Christian Mayer (Ed.): Munich - The History of the City. Süddeutsche Zeitung Bibliothek, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-622-7 , pp. 320–323

• Student protests. From occupation to movement. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 30, 2009.

• Barnabas' last sermon , (on the resignation of Michael Lerchenberg ) On: sueddeutsche.de March 5, 2010.

• The wrong time, the wrong place. For the survivors, it is as if it was yesterday. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 26, 1980 online at: hagalil.com

• Joachim Käppner (Hrsg.), Wolfgang Görl (Hrsg.), Christian Mayer (Hrsg.): Munich - The history of the city. Süddeutsche Zeitung Bibliothek, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-622-7 .

• Wolfgang Görl among others: The grazing light. Undercover investigation between heaven and hell. 2000 to 2004. Süddeutsche Zeitung | Edition, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-937793-56-9 .

• Gnarled Liberator. On the death of Doc Watson , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 30, 2012, available online .

• Late return home. Successful author Herbert Rosendorfer has died , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 21, 2012, available online .

• Writing against Hitler . The journalist Fritz Gerlich fought the Nazi regime - until he was murdered. , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 16./17. December 2017, p. R2 (topic of the day)

• The Free State of Bavaria owes a lot to Kurt Eisner. 100 years of the assassination attempt on Kurt Eisner. , available online in Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 22, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tiger Willi sings and plays. Together with the guitarist Wolfgang Görl. http://venyoo.de/s286308-tiger-willi-singt-und-spielt-z together-mit-dem-gitarristen-wolfgang-goerl ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Laureate and award 2005: Journalist Prize of the German Newspapers - Theodor Wolff Prize. ( Memento of March 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers.
3. ^ Herwig Weber Prize - Prize Winner 2010.