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Life
Born 1970, from Aurich/East Frisia. Studied Islamic Studies and Middle East History in Hamburg, Beirut, and Tel Aviv. Worked as a country specialist at the Near and Middle East Association in Hamburg, completed a traineeship at the Axel Springer School of Journalism, and subsequently worked for two years as a political editor at The world. Early 2005 switch to World on Sunday, two and a half years of parliamentarycorrespondent for the CDU, CSU, and FDP. In May 2007, a member of a developmenteditor at Axel Springer AG, at Zeitenspiegel since January 2008, and part of the management team since the end of 2024.
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Jan Rübel, ReportageOn the forgotten birthday
Author Jan Rübel
Published in „Berliner Zeitung,“ May 12, 2021The Kurfürstendamm turned 135 years old. So what? A birthday walk down the boulevard of the pandemic.
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Jan Rübel, ReportageIn close proximity, so far
Author Jan Rübel
Published in the „Frankfurter Rundschau,“ October 17, 2020. Photo: Andi WeilandWorkshops for people with disabilities represent an invisible mass market in Germany. The complex employs 300,000 of them. About a parallel world that hardly anyone knows.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Uli ReinhardtBig politics in miniature
Photographer Uli Reinhardt and author Jan Rübel
Published in „MUT – Magazine for Solutions“, October 2020From Fridays for Future to the City Council: Thomas Gönner wants to save the climate. Protocol of a political debut.
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Jan Rübel, ReportageVon Zäunen und Kaninchen
Author Jan Rübel
Erschienen in „Berliner Zeitung“, 19.08.2020Eine Kleinstadt wehrt sich gegen das ausufernde Berlin, stand in der Zeitung. Es klang nach hochgezogenen Gartenzäunen. Also machte ich mich auf den Weg.
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Jan Rübel, ReportageA very special street
Author Jan Rübel
Published in „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung,“ November 3, 2019Everyone is talking about Eastern Germans. But who are they, anyway? On a walk along Berlin's Seelenbinderstraße, our author meets a few people who might know.
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Jan Rübel, ReportageWhat else is left for a man?
Author Jan Rübel
Erschienen in „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“, 21. Juli 2019Das einstmals starke Geschlecht soll sich alljährlich irgendwo auf dem Teufelsberg in Berlin versammeln. Eine Suche.
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Jan Rübel, ReportageChasing the War
Author Jan Rübel
Erschienen in „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“, 9. Juni 2019Mein Magen war leer und der Kopf voll von einem Steak Tartare, das ich vor einem Jahr nicht zu essen bekommen hatte.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage, Sascha MontagA Wounded Life
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Jan Rübel
Published in „Stern“, 4/2019As a toddler, Tom was severely mistreated and abused. Eleven years ago, stern visited him with his foster family and met a deeply traumatized boy. Tom is now 23. How is he doing today?
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Jan Rübel, ReportageHow I Found Galicia in the Middle of Europe
Author Jan Rübel
Published in „Lufthansa Magazine“, 11/18Galicia is in northwestern Spain? No way. That was the name of a vanished kingdom in Central Europe. Our author searched for it – he encountered a magical stone, phantom pains, and the consequences of higher mathematics.
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Jan Rübel, ReportageHow I Set Out to Meet Jerome Boateng
Author Jan Rübel
Erschienen in „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“, 8. Juli 2018Durch Berlin fließt ein seltsamer, nahezu unbekannter Fluss. Die geheimnisvolle Panke erzählt von der Lage der Nation zwischen WM-Desaster der deutschen Fußballer und Unionskrise: von der Quelle bis zur Mündung.
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Jan Rübel, ReportageGo for it, Muslimgirls!
Author Jan Rübel
Erschienen in „Neue Zürcher Zeitung“, 19. Juni 2018Was geht ab an feministischen Bewegungen in muslimischen Milieus Deutschlands? Eine Spurensuche.
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Jan Rübel, Reportage
Berlin School Lottery
Author Jan Rübel
Erschienen in „Berliner Zeitung“, 14. Mai 2018Wie in jedem Jahr warten in Berlin alle Sechstklässler und ihre Eltern auf einen bestimmten Brief – auf welche Schule geht es nach den Ferien? Ein Frontbericht.