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Silke Burmester

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Silke Burmester (born 1966 in Hamburg) is a German journalist, columnist and author.

Life and career

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Silke Burmester worked as an editorial assistant and production manager at Spiegel TV Thema. Together with Heike Hackbarth, she founded the fanzine planet pussy in the 1990s.[1] She was a writer for Petra and Die Woche. At Amica, she headed the "Sex und Sünde" (Sex and Sin) section, and at Jahreszeiten Verlag she worked as a freelance chief editor.[2]

At Die Tageszeitung, Burmester wrote for seven years a weekly media column under the persona of a "war reporter" until July 2016.[3] For Spiegel Online she wrote the column S.P.O.N. – Helden der Gegenwart until March 2014.[4][5] She has also written columns for Medium Magazin ("Burmester’s Moral Advice"), netzwerkrecherche.de, the Sächsische Zeitung, Die Zeit, Zeit-Magazin and mare.[6][7][3][8]

In February 2008 taz published Burmester's multi-part satirical column The Secret Diary of Carla Bruni,[9] which was published as a book later that year.[10][11] The book was also discussed in the French and Italian press[12][13] and translated into Romanian and Estonian. The audiobook version, read by Esther Schweins, was listed in February 2009 on the hr2-kultur best audiobooks chart.

In 2012 her book Beruhigt Euch! (Calm down!) was published, described as a "pamphlet against media hysteria".[14] In 2016 she published Mutterblues – Mein Kind wird erwachsen, und was werde ich?, about the challenges faced by mothers when children grow up.[15]

Burmester teaches creative writing at the Academy for Journalism in Hamburg, for SWR and at the Henri Nannen School.[8] She advocates for freelance journalism and is a member of ProQuote,[16] Freischreiber,[17] the dju,[18] the PEN Centre Germany[19] and is a founding member of PEN Berlin.[20]

In October 2020 she launched the online magazine Palais F*luxx, aimed at women aged 47 and above.[21]

Awards

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In 2010, Burmester was awarded third place by Medium Magazin in the Journalist of the Year award in the "Culture" category,[22] and in 2011 and 2012 she won second place in the "Entertainment" category for her humorous and biting texts.[23][24]

In 2017, she received the Bert-Donnepp-Preis for media journalism.[25]

In 2023 she and Gesine Cukrowski received the Honorary Prize Inspiration of the German Actors' Award for their campaign Let's Change The Picture.[26]

Jury member

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In 2011 Burmester was on the jury of the Grimme-Preis in the "Entertainment" category, in 2012 in the "Fiction" category, and she was also a jury member for the German Radio Prize in 2011.[27][28] In 2014 she was on the jury of the Prix Pantheon.[29]

Publications

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  • Das geheime Tagebuch der Carla Bruni. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-04066-1.
  • Beruhigt Euch! Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04434-8; ISBN 978-3-462-30571-5 (e-book).
  • Mutterblues. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04952-7.

References

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  1. ↑ "Neid:Presse".
  2. ↑ Profile: German Radio Prize 2011: Jury members: Silke Burmester. In: deutscher-radiopreis.de
  3. 1 2 Profile Silke Burmester, columnist at taz.de
  4. ↑ Helden der Gegenwart. In: S.P.O.N. columns
  5. ↑ Farewell with Top Ten: In Hamburg they say Tschüs!. In: spiegel.de
  6. ↑ Silke Burmester, author. In: netzwerkrecherche.de
  7. ↑ Authors: Silke Burmester. In: zeit.de
  8. 1 2 "Silke Burmester". freischreiber.de. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  9. ↑ Silke Burmester: Das geheime Tagebuch der Carla Bruni. In: taz.de
  10. ↑ Silja Ukena: Fictional Bruni diary: She capricious, he hyperactive. In: Spiegel Online Kultur, 29 December 2009
  11. ↑ Carolin Fischer: Tatsächlich Liebe. Silke Burmester: “Das geheime Tagebuch der Carla Bruni”. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur, 18 December 2008
  12. ↑ Alice Pouyat: Carla Bruni has two (fake) diaries. In: L’Express, 14 August 2008
  13. ↑ The (fake) diaries of Carla B. In: Corriere della Sera, 17 August 2008
  14. ↑ Helmut Mayer: Unter Pamphletpiraten. Verkauft Euch! In: FAZ, 14 February 2012
  15. ↑ ""Nur wenn du peinlich bist, bist du gut"". Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  16. ↑ Supporters at pro-quote.de (Error: unknown archive URL) (archived 11 July 2013)
  17. ↑ Members – Freischreiber
  18. ↑ Silke Burmester: To hell with these manners. In: Deutschlandfunk, 27 April 2017
  19. ↑ "Members". PEN-Zentrum Deutschland. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  20. ↑ "Founders". Archived from the original on 18 July 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  21. ↑ "Palais F*luxx". Palais F*luxx (in German). Retrieved 31 March 2026.
  22. ↑ Journalist of the Year 2010. In: Medium Online
  23. ↑ Thomas Strothjohann (31 January 2012). "The Journalists of the Year 2011". Medium Magazin. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  24. ↑ Journalists of the Year 2012. In: medium magazin
  25. ↑ "Former taz "war reporter" Silke Burmester receives Bert Donnepp Prize for media journalism". Meedia.de. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  26. ↑ Award winners, German Actors' Award website, retrieved 15 February 2024
  27. ↑ German Radio Prize 2011: Jury members
  28. ↑ Grimme-Preis Juries 2012 at grimme-institut.de (Error: unknown archive URL) (archived 3 November 2014)
  29. ↑ "Prix Pantheon 2013". WDR. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
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