Nina Grunenberg

Nina Grunenberg (7 October 1936 – 28 December 2017) was a German author and prize-winning journalist. Beginning her career in West Germany at a time when political journalism was largely a male preserve, she wrote carefully researched reports on life in that country, and its political, social and economic topics, and focusing frequently on science or education (her husband, Reimar Lüst, was an astrophysicist.) She wrote about leaders in industry, unions and politics.[1][2][3]

Nina Grunenberg
Born
Christine Grunenberg

7 October 1936
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Died28 December 2017
Hamburg, Germany
Occupation(s)Journalist-commentator
Author
SpouseProf. Dr. Dieter Lüst (1923–2020)
Children2 stepsons including the theoretical physicist Dieter Lüst

Biography

Provenance and early years

Caroline “Nina” Grunenberg was born in Dresden, where she attended school between 1942 and 1950.[4] She was eight and a half when the World War II ended. From 1950 to 1954 she was a pupil at the “Ursulinen-Gymnasium” (catholic secondary school) in Cologne.[4] After high school she began a three year apprenticeship in the book trade in 1954.[1]

Journalist

From 1958 to 1965 Grunenberg worked as a freelance journalist. Cologne was becoming the West German television capital during this period, and one of the organisations she worked for was the Westdeutscher Rundfunk broadcasting organisation. She also contributed frequently to the Hamburg-based weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, of which editorial staff she joined in 1961, 1965 or 1969 (sources differ).[1][4] From 1965 to 1969 she was the paper’s “Länderspiegelkorrespondentin”, working on the regional supplement produced by the newspaper for readers in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. According to a “laudatio” commendation piece published. many years later to celebrate Grunenberg’s “lifetime achievements”, while based at the Cologne office she worked on the “Länderspiegel” supplement. [5]

She was based at the Die Zeit's main office in Hamburg from 1969 as an editor for education and universities policy. From 1974 to 1984 she was listed as the paper's “political reporter”. She was based in Paris between 1984 and 1987.[1][4] From 1987 to 1995 she was deputy editor-in-chief of Die Zeit. [6]

Reimar Lüst

In 1986 Nina Grunenberg married, as his second wife, the astrophysicist Prof. Dr. Dieter Lüst (1923–2020), the President of the Max Planck Society from 1972 to 1984 and a pioneer of space research. Through the marriage, Grunenberg acquired two adult stepsons.[7][8]

Later career

In 1992 Die Zeit set up a new section under the name “the Knowledge Department” (”das Ressort Wissen”). Grunenberg was assigned to head it, which she did along with her other responsibilities at the newspaper until 1994. By this time she had established a specialty as an educational journalist.[2][9]

Between 2000 and 2009 she was a member of the government’s 32-member German Science and Humanities Council, the first journalist to be a member. After 2009 she continued to work for the council on a consultancy basis.[2][10]

Grunenberg was also a member of the PEN Centre Germany.[5]

Death
Grunenberg's gravestone

Grunenberg died at Hamburg-Ohlsdorf on 28 December 2017.[11]

A (selection)

• 1964: Kurt Magnus Prize from the ARD

• 1973: Theodor Wolff Prize of the Newspaper Publishers’ Association[12]

• 1990: Herbert Quandt Media Prize of the Johanna-Quandt Foundation.[13]

• 2009: Theodor Wolff Prize of the Newspaper Publishers’ Association: for her life’s work[5]

References
  1. "Nina Grunenberg, deutsche Journalistin". Internationales Biographisches Archiv 26/2007 … Ergänzt um Nachrichten durch MA-Journal bis KW 52/2017. Munzinger Archiv GmbH., Ravensburg. 30 June 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  2. Matthias Naß (29 December 2017). "Unbequem, aber nie ungerecht". Nina Grunenberg … Als es kaum Frauen an der Spitze des Journalismus gab, wurde sie eine der wichtigsten Stimmen der ZEIT. Nina Grunenberg blieb dem Blatt stets verbunden. Ein Nachruf. Die Zeit (online). Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  3. Jonny Daniel & Willi Winkler (1 May 2022). "Theodor Wolff Prize found by Nina Grunenberg at the flea market – media". Magazine, Healty And Sport News. Allnewspress, London / New York & Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH., München. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  4. "Kurzbiographie: Nina Grunenberg". Nominierte Texte 2009. Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger e.V. (Der Journalistenpreis der Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger – Theodor-Wolff-Preis), Berlin. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  5. Wilm Herlyn. "Ohne Arg dem Menschen zugewandt". ”Laudatio” über Nina Grunenberg. Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger e.V. (Der Journalistenpreis der Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger – Theodor-Wolff-Preis), Berlin. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  6. Hermann Rudolph (2 January 2018). "Die Reporterin". Nachruf auf Nina Grunenberg …. Eine liberale Instanz und eine einfühlsame Stilistin: zum Tod der Journalistin und „Zeit“-Autorin Nina Grunenberg. Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH., Berlin. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  7. Gerhard Haerendel; Joachim Trümper. "Reimar Lüst (25.3.1923 – 31.3.2020)" (PDF). Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München. p. 3 of 3. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  8. "A sure hand at the scientific helm". Reimar Lüst, former President of the Max Planck Society and pioneer of European space research, has died. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V., München. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  9. Willi Winkler (1 May 2022). "Für eine Handvoll Euro". Der Theodor-Wolff-Preis ist eine der höchsten Auszeichnungen der deutschen Medien. Jetzt fand ein Reporter die Plakette von Nina Grunenberg auf dem Flohmarkt. Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH., München. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  10. "Trauer um Nina Grunenberg-Lüst". Das Deutsche Stiftungszentrum und der Stifterverband trauern um Nina Grunenberg-Lüst, die am 28. Dezember 2017 im Alter von 81 Jahren verstarb. Anke Meis i.A. Deutsches Stiftungszentrum GmbH , Essen. 18 January 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  11. "Nina Grunenberg * 07.10.1936 † 28.12.2017 in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf …. Wir sind sehr traurig". Traueranzeige für Nina Grunenberg vom 08.01.2018 aus Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH. (SZ Gedenken), München. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  12. "1972/73". Preisträger der Jahre 1961 bis 1996. Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger e.V. (Der Journalistenpreis der deutschen Zeitungen – Theodor-Wolff-Preis), Berlin. Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  13. "1990". Preisträger des Herbert Quandt Medien-PsheAwardses. Johanna-Quandt-Stiftung, Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe. Archived from the original on 9 July 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
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