Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger

Ulrich "Uli" Hesse (born 1966 in Dortmund) is a German freelance journalist, editor and author.

Life and work

He graduated from Bochum University in 1994, having written his M.A. thesis about baseball.[1] He has covered popular music for fanzines and magazines, such as the German edition of Rolling Stone,[2] but primarily writes about sports, predominantly (association) football.

Hesse has published articles in newspapers and magazines in a variety of countries, including England, United States, Sweden, Japan and Israel,[3] and was the editor of the German-language edition of "Champions", the official UEFA Champions League magazine,[4] for which he is now working as a contributing editor. Since 2002, he is a regular columnist for ESPN FC (formerly ESPNsoccernet),[5] which has been called the world's most popular football website.

So far, Hesse has published five books. "Tor! The Story of German Football" (2002) [6] was the first extensive English-language history of German football and has since been translated into Japanese, Danish and Polish. One of his four German-language books was nominated for the Football Book of the Year Award.[7]

Hesse is a Borussia Dortmund season ticket holder. He has listed the novelty song "Jilted John" by Jilted John as his all-time favourite 7" A-side and the punk rock classic "Born to Lose" by the Heartbreakers as the greatest-ever 7" B-side.[8][9] For more than a decade he published as "Hesse-Lichtenberger", a name acquired through marriage. In October 2009 he went back to his birth name and now usually publishes as Uli Hesse.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ {http://www.schwatzgelb.de/index.php?id=715}
  2. ↑ {http://www.jimdero.com/Bangs/Bangs%20German.htm}
  3. ↑ {http://www.westfaelische-nachrichten.de/lokales/kreis_steinfurt/greven/greven_an_die_ems/aktuelles/327570_Zur_Person_Talk_Gast_Ulrich_Hesse_Lichtenberger.html}
  4. ↑ {http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/championsmag}
  5. ↑ {http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/archive?columnist=20&root=europe}
  6. ↑ {http://www.wsc.co.uk/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,46/category_id,9/manufacturer_id,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,67/)}
  7. ↑ {http://www.fussball-kultur.org/thema-fussball/literatur/rezensionen/rezension/news/wie-oesterreich-weltmeister-wurde-111-unglaubliche-fussbalgeschichten.html}
  8. ↑ {http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~tommi.s/hb20.htm}
  9. ↑ {http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~tommi.s/hb21.htm}

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