Juergen Schreiber

Juergen Schreiber (born January 30, 1947) is an investigative journalist and author based in Berlin, Germany.He is a regular contributor to Berlin's daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel on matters concerning German's Past in WWII and in the fine arts. Much recognition gained Schreiber's (non-official) biography in 2005 of the world's famous German painter Gerhard Richter, in which he could detect the fact that Richter's own aunt was murdered by Richter's later father-in-law Heinrich Eufinger.

Life and work

For over 30 years Juergen Schreiber was working as journalist and as a reporter. In this time he was mainly working for the German newspapersStuttgarter Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau. He was also as author represented in the German magazines of Geo, Sports and Merian and the Zeit-Magazin. Besides it belonged to the initial members of the weekly paper Die Woche, which has been adjusted in the meantime. As a reporter it was also temporary with the magazine of south Germans biggest newspaper, Munich's Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Since 1999 he is working for Berlin's biggest daily Der Tagesspiegel and since 2001 actively as its reporter-in-chieff. In connection with the case Magnus Gaefgen he uncovered the torture menace against Magnus Gaefgen, accused of murder in the meantime. Two times he was honoured with the [http://www.waechterpreis.de Waechter-Price] of the German press. In 1991 he received in addition to that the very much regarded Theodor Wolff prize. In 2005 Juergen Schreiber published his first book "A painter from Germany", 2005 (only in German so far) which uncovered the family drama of the present internationally most well-known German painter, Gerhard Richter. Schreiber revealed in the fact that Richter in his famous portrait "Aunt Marianne" painted his aunt together with the painter as a baby in front, who was killed later in Adolf Hitler's Euthanasia-programme by physicians, among them Richter's own later father-in-law and physician, Professor Dr. Heinrich Eufinger. (This happened naturally without knowledge Gerhard Richter).

Literature

*Juergen Schreiber: Confessional secrets given to his favourite enemy. A far field: Why Guenter Grass made its confession just to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in: Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), August 20, 2006, p. 3. (In German)
*Juergen Schreiber: Guenter Grass obviously already admitted to US-officials in 1945 his membership in the weapon SS-troups, in: Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), August 16, 2006, p. 1. (In German)
*Juergen Schreiber: Hunt for the hunter. It is to have spied on journalists: Volker Foertsch, once third-most powerful man at the secret service of Germany (BND). What happens, if it turned around?, in: Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), July 22, 2006, p. 3. (In German)
*Rose-Maria Gropp (rmg): Discretion helps (A review to Juergen Schreiber's book "A Painter from Germany", 2005), in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 21, 2006, p. 57. (In German)
*Stefan Koldehoff: Kunstwerk, Dokument, Epitaph, in: Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), June 21, 2006, p. 11. (In German)
*N.N.: Auctions: "To much noises", in: Der Spiegel (Hamburg), June 19, 2006, p. 135. (In German)
*Juergen Schreiber: As Marx in Chemnitz (former with the name Karl-Marx-City is to be finally put on ice: a principal art project, in: Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), April 2, 2006, p. 3. (In German)
*Georg Imdahl: Family idyll and bath joys. Juergen Schreiber over the family of the painter Gerhard Richter, in: Neue Zuercher Zeitung, March 22, 2006, p. 43. (In German)
*Burkhard Mueller: The grey tones of the flower meadow. Investigative view of art: Juergen Schreiber reads the family pictures of Gerhard Richter like a political detective story, in: Sueddeutsche Zeitung, October 18, 2005, p. V3/22. (In German)
*Sebastian Preuss: The painter, the victim and the author. Juergen Schreiber finds the secrets of a German family history to early pictures of Gerhard Richter, in: Berliner Zeitung, October 18, 2005, p. 26. (in German)
*Juergen Schreiber: A painter from Germany. Gerhard Richter. The drama of a family. Pendo publishers, Munich and Zurich 2005. ISBN 3-86612-058-3.

External links

* [http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/22361.html Flap text and excerpts from reviews in the German Web culture and book review magazine "Perlentaucher.de"]
* [http://archiv.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/22.08.2004/1308678.asp "The secret of a Painter" of Gerhard Richter has been uncovered by Juergen Schreiber firstly in August 2004 in Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel] .