# Tissy Bruns

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**Christiane "Tissy" Bruns** (1 January 1951, [Zeitz](/source/Zeitz) – 20 February 2013) was a German journalist. From 1999 to 2003, she was chairwoman of the [Association of the Federal Press Conference](/source/Federal_Press_Conference).

## Life

At the age of six, she moved with her family from [East Germany](/source/East_Germany) to [West Germany](/source/West_Germany).[1] She completed a [teaching degree](/source/Teaching_degree) for elementary and secondary schools with the subjects history and mathematics and during her studies in the 1970s was a member of the leadership of the [Marxist Student Union Spartakus](/source/Marxist_Student_Union_Spartakus) (MSB).[2] From 1975 to 1977, she was a consultant to the board of the [Vereinigte Deutsche Studentenschaften](/source/Verband_Deutscher_Studentenschaften) (VDS); after completing her [legal clerkship](/source/Legal_clerkship), she was the first woman to be a member of the VDS board from 1979. After leaving the VDS, she worked for the [DKP](/source/Deutsche_Kommunistische_Partei)[3] party executive from 1981 and was a member of the [Marxistischer Studentenbund Spartakus](/source/Marxistischer_Studentenbund_Spartakus). She left the party in 1989. She had clearly distanced herself from communism and the DKP since this time.[4]

From 1984 she worked as a journalist, initially for the *[Deutsche Volkszeitung](/source/Deutsche_Volkszeitung_(1953-1989))*. From 1991 until the parliament moved to Berlin in the summer of 1999, she was a parliamentary correspondent in Bonn, writing first for *[Die Tageszeitung](/source/Die_Tageszeitung)*, later for *[Stern](/source/Stern_(magazine))* and then *[Wochenpost](/source/Wochenpost)*.

From 1997 she was a correspondent for the *[Der Tagesspiegel](/source/Der_Tagesspiegel)*. From April 2001 to April 2003, she headed the Berlin correspondent's office of the daily newspaper *[Die Welt](/source/Die_Welt)*, after which she moved back to the *Tagesspiegel*.

An extensive interview she gave with [Franz Müntefering](/source/Franz_M%C3%BCntefering) was published in his 2008 book *Macht Politik!* She had lived in Berlin since 1999 and died of cancer in 2013.

## Publications

- Tissy Bruns (2007), *Republik der Wichtigtuer* (Ein Bericht aus Berlin), Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, ISBN 978-3-451-28715-2

## Literature

- [Irmela Hannover](/source/Irmela_Hannover), [Cordt Schnibben](/source/Cordt_Schnibben): *I can't get no. A few 68ers meet again and settle accounts*. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03905-4 – pp. 29, 362 et al.
- [Jens Spahn](/source/Jens_Spahn): *... ob du Huhn bist oder Hahn!" – Portrait of a special carp – Tissy Bruns.* In: *Schmierfinken : Politicians about journalists.* Edited by [Maybrit Illner](/source/Maybrit_Illner) and [Hajo Schumacher](/source/Hajo_Schumacher). Heyne, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-62037-7.

## References

1. *[Tissy Bruns Journalistin im Gespräch mit Susanne Frank.](https://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendungen/alpha-forum/tissy-bruns-gespraech100~attachment.pdf)* In: *[br-online.de](/source/Br-online.de)*, 3 January 2008 ([PDF](/source/Portable_Document_Format); 53 kB).

1. Nico Fried: [*Sensible Chronistin.*](https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/berliner-journalistin-gestorben-tagesspiegel-trauert-um-tissy-bruns-1.1606088) In: *[Süddeutsche.de](/source/S%C3%BCddeutsche.de)*, 21 February 2013, retrieved 21 February 2013.

1. Kandidatur für die DKP bei der Bundestagswahl 1980 auf Platz 9 der Landesliste NRW

1. Tissy Bruns: [*Die verlogene Unschuld der Weltverbesserer.*](https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2011-01/loetzsch-kommunismus-linkspartei) In: *[Die Zeit](/source/Die_Zeit)*, 8 January 2011.

## External links

- [Was ist heute noch links?](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/empoerung-weltweit-was-ist-heute-noch-links/4893540-all.html) (one of the last articles by Tissy Bruns)
- Obituaries: - [Träumen bleibt möglich](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/zum-tod-von-tissy-bruns-traeumen-bleibt-moeglich/7820742.html) – ein Nachruf im [Tagesspiegel](/source/Tagesspiegel) - [Spiegel](https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/tissy-bruns-ist-tot-a-884800.html) - [Süddeutsche Zeitung](https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/berliner-journalistin-gestorben-tagesspiegel-trauert-um-tissy-bruns-1.1606088) - [Die Welt](https://www.welt.de/newsticker/news3/article113820190/Trauer-um-Politikjournalistin-Tissy-Bruns.html) - [Journalistinnenbund Watch-Salon](https://watch-salon.blogspot.de/2013/02/gedenken-tissy-bruns.html) - [taz](https://www.taz.de/Die-Journalistin-Tissy-Bruns-ist-tot/!111559/) - [Bundestag President Lammert pays tribute to Tissy Bruns](http://www.bundestag.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2013/pm_1302211.html)

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