Draft:Andreas Englisch

Andreas Englisch (born 6 June 1963 in Werl) is a German journalist who specializes reporting on the Vatican.

Biography

After graduating from Marien-Gymnasium Werl in 1983, Englisch studied literature and journalism in Hamburg.

He moved to Rome in 1987, only planning to stay there for six months, to learn Italian. He still lives there today. Englisch headed the Roman correspondent office of the Axel Springer publishing house for ten years. Until the end of March 2010, he was the permanent Italian and Vatican correspondent exclusively for Bild and Bild am Sonntag. He was then recalled by Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann and assigned to another position in the publishing house. A few weeks earlier, Englisch had spoken out on the subject of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the Hart aber fair program.

Since 1995, he has sometimes accompanied the popes on their travels by plane. In 2004, he wrote a biography about his experiences on his travels with Pope John Paul II. Englisch is also the author of two novels.

During his travels with John Paul II, he changed from being an original critic of the Pope to a Pope admirer, which he traced in his biography of the Pope John Paul II: The Secret of Karol Wojtyła (2004). In the following years, his books God's Footsteps (2006) and The Miracle Pope (2011) were published, in which he characterized John Paul II as a "miracle pope" but also exposed the Pole's belief in miracles as a mistake based on deceptions from those around him.

Englisch later received public attention through his prediction, based on earlier statements by Ratzinger, that Pope Benedict XVI would resign from office, which proved to be correct in February 2013.

Englisch presented the story behind the Giuseppe Gulotta case to the public.

He describes the pontificate of Pope Francis as a merciless battle behind the scenes in which the Pope faces a hostile and deeply networked Curia apparatus.

Observers who are sometimes very critical of Englisch's publications and accuse him of enriching his descriptions with invented or deliberately exaggerated embellishments agree that he was very close to curial events under Pope John Paul II.

In 2024, Andreas Englisch will accompany package tourists from the Swiss tour operator Modial Tours in Rome with a lecture and the excursion "World-famous St. Peter's Basilica and the Palazzo Colonna".

Andreas Englisch is married and has a son.

Books

• Der stille Gott der Wölfe. (Roman), Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-522-71900-1
• Die Petrusakte. (Roman), Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-550-08266-5
• Johannes Paul II. – Das Geheimnis des Karol Wojtyła. (Biographie), 2004, 2. Auflage 2005, Ullstein Verlag, erschienen als Hardcover, Taschenbuch und Hörbuch (4 CDs),
• Johannes Paul II. Ein Leben in Bildern. Augsburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-89897-213-0
• Habemus Papam. Von Johannes Paul II. zu Benedikt XVI. München 2005, ISBN 978-3-570-00858-4
• Gottes Spuren, Die Wunder der katholischen Kirche. München 2006, ISBN 978-3-570-00855-3
• Wenn Gott spricht: Die Prophezeiungen der katholischen Kirche. München 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01133-1
• Der Wunderpapst: Johannes Paul II. München 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-10066-0
• Benedikt XVI. Der deutsche Papst. München 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-10019-6
• Franziskus – Zeichen der Hoffnung. Das Erbe Benedikts XVI. und die Schicksalswahl des neuen Papstes. München 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-10186-5
• Der Kämpfer im Vatikan – Papst Franziskus und sein mutiger Weg. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, München 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10279-4 (Platz 1 der Spiegel-Bestsellerliste vom 31. Oktober bis zum 6. November und vom 14. bis zum 20. November 2015)
• Franziskus – Ein Lebensbild. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, München 2016, ISBN 978-3-570-10325-8
• Mein Rom: Die Geheimnisse der Ewigen Stadt, München: C. Bertelsmann, 2018, ISBN 978-3-570-10359-3
• Der Pakt gegen den Papst. Franziskus und seine Feinde im Vatikan. C. Bertelsmann, München 2020, ISBN 978-3-570-10368-5.
• Mein geheimes Rom: Die verborgenen Orte der Ewigen Stadt. C. Bertelsmann, München 2021, ISBN 978-3-570-10437-8.
• Das Vermächtnis von Papst Franziskus: Wie der Kämpfer im Vatikan die katholische Kirche verändert hat. C. Bertelsmann, München 2023, ISBN 978-3-570-10514-6