Ronald Reng

Ronald Reng (* 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German sports journalist and author. He wrote, among other things, the book The Dream Keeper, which was awarded in 2004 in the UK as the first foreign book with the Sports Book of the Year Award in the category " Biography ". The Dream Keeper tells the true story of the football goalkeeper Lars Leese.

From 1996 to 2001 Reng worked as a sports journalist in England, since he lives in Barcelona. He writes for taz and the Süddeutsche Zeitung about football, but also about sports such as hockey wife.

In 2007 he was invited to Klagenfurt reading competition at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.

In 2010, he wrote in collaboration with Teresa Enke Robert Enke biography " Robert Enke. A too- short life. "

Between 2001 and 2010 he was honored seven times in nine years with the Grand Prize of the Association of German sports journalists for the best sports photography of the year. In 2010 he was awarded the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Award " for outstanding journalistic contributions on the topic of reading culture."

In November 2011 he was in London for his biography of Robert Enke, the award William Hill Sports Book of the Year, considered the " oldest and mean dester sports book prize in the world ." Reng was in 23 years, the first author who does not write in English, which was awarded with the prize. In addition, its sink - biography in Great Britain for Football Book of the Year 2012 was chosen ..

In 2013 he was awarded by the German Academy for football culture for his work game days. The other story of the Bundesliga football book of the year award.

A distinguished jury, who was among other things the journalist and television presenter Roger Willemsen, drew game days. The other story of the Bundesliga with the NDR Kultur Nonfiction Book Award 2013. " Ronald Reng has convinced with his unusual nonfiction the jury. Accurate researched, informative, exciting and at the same time in literature, he tells the history of the Bundesliga from its beginnings to the present and describes it wisely and never boring, as the league is for entertainment and business machine developed, "it said in the jury.

Works

  • The Dream Keeper. The incredible story of a goalkeeper, 2002
  • My life as an Englishman, 2003
  • Keeper of Dreams, 2004
  • Instructions for London, 2004
  • Adulterers, 2005
  • The world champion ( with Horst Hamann ), 2006
  • The funny German, 2010
  • Robert Enke. A too- short life ( with Teresa Enke ), 2010
  • Match days: The other story of the Bundesliga, Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05592-5
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