Wolfgang Michal

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Wolfgang Michal (born January 31, 1954 in Dachsbach ) is a German author and journalist .

Life

Michal grew up in Würzburg and went to the X-ray high school in Würzburg . In 1974/75 he graduated from the German School of Journalism and then studied political science , education and communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1981 he completed his studies with a master's degree .

From 1982 to 1986 he worked as an editor and reporter for the social democratic weekly newspaper Vorwärts in Bonn. In 1988 he moved to the Hamburg reportage magazine GEO in the same position . Since 1999 he has worked as a freelance writer for various magazines, newspapers, radio and online publications.

In 2008, he and other authors founded the professional association of freelance journalists, Freischreiber e. V .; In 2010 Magda, the “magazine of authors” followed.

Michal was co-editor of the multi-author blog Carta from May 2010 to September 2014 . Since April 2011 he has been running a blog with a focus on “upheavals and developments”.

Michal lives in Salzhausen , around 40 km south of Hamburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • The SPD - loyal to the state and free of minors. How old-fashioned is social democracy? . Rowohlt Publishing House. Reinbek near Hamburg. 1988 (rororo aktuell). ISBN 3-499-12230-8
  • Germany and the next war . Rowohlt Berlin. Berlin. 1995. ISBN 3-87134-233-5
  • Lonely class. Why men don't age . Booklett Publishing House. Berlin. 2007. ISBN 978-3-940153-00-5 Paperback edition: dtv. Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-423-34619-1

Awards

  • International Journalism Prize Klagenfurt 1989 ("The Silesian Blues", GEO 5/1989)
  • Awards at the Hansel-Mieth-Preis 1999 ("Where Sisyphos would have quit. The Gauck authority", GEO 10/1999), 2000 ("On the dump. Roma in Romania", GEO 11/1999), 2002 ("Herrgottswinkel. Gott in Cologne ", Merian 3/2002)
  • Nominations for the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize 1998 (for: "The Bernsteinzimmer case", in GEO 5/1997), 2003 (for "Herrgottswinkel. God in Cologne", in Merian 3/2002)
  • Grimme Online Award 2009 for Carta , for the u. a. Michal made contributions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Michal: Mein Medien-Menu , Interview by Christoph Koch July 17, 2012, accessed January 6, 2015
  2. ^ Roland Röhrich, Winfried Stadtmüller: Annual report 1971/72. Röntgen-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1972, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Michal. Biography . In: freischreiber.de. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Author portal with high quality content. Magda.de: Playground for 22 professionals ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Meedia. January 13, 2010. Retrieved February 5, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / meedia.de
  5. ↑ Dominik Baur: Krossmedia. The Making of Magda. How a pug became a girl . In: Magda.de. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Michal: My view of things . In: newsroom.de., September 15, 2014. Accessed July 30, 2015.
  7. ^ Robin Meyer-Lucht : On our own behalf: Wolfgang Michal and Matthias Schwenk become Carta editors . In: carta.info. May 14, 2010. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Michal: Upheavals & Developments . In: wolfgangmichal.de. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Michal, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachsbach