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Robert Domes (* 27. Oktober 1961 in Ichenhausen, Bayern) is a German  Journalist and Writer.

Life
Robert Domes grew up in a working class Family in Oxenbronn, Bavarian-Swabia. After his A levels he studied at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Univertity political and communication sciences in Munich. He dropped out to do an internship at the Allgäu Newspaper (AZ) in Kempten. After that he worked at several editorial depatments of the publisher as a local editor. From 1988 on he was an editor at AZ in Kaufbeuren. In 2001 he was promoted to editor in chief of the local editorial division of Kaufbeuren and Buchole. He is a freelance author and journalist since the 1. July 2002.

Domes married to actress Simone Schatz. He has got 3 children from his first marriage and two from his current one. He lives with his family in Irsee, Allgäu.

Work
Robert Domes worked as an author and jounalist for several newspapers and magazines. He is furthermore invested in educating the next generation of journalists and offering workshops for the current generation. He is a consultant and team leader, in among other things, the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the support for new jounalists from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and for private contracters. In 2002, Domes started to reserch the life of Enst Lossa. He was a boy born and raised by a Yenish family, who were peddlers roaming through South-Germany. In 1933 Ernst was taken from his parents and put into a children's home. Even though he was nighter disabeled, nor phisically ill, he was transfered to a nursing home in Kaufbeuren/Irsee  in 1942. There he was murdered in 1944 at the age of 14 on an overdose of morphine-scopolamine. He was one of the 200 000 falllen victim to the euthanasia practices of the third reich. Domes beschrieb das Leben des Ernst Lossa in seinem Tatsachenroman „Nebel im August“, der 2008 bei cbt (Random House) als Jugendbuch erschien. Das Buch wird inzwischen an Schulen als Unterrichtslektüre verwendet. Der Autor erhielt für das Werk mehrere Preise. 2015 wurde der Roman unter der Regie von Kai Wessel verfilmt. Der Film kam im September 2016 in die deutschen Kinos (siehe Nebel im August). Außerdem verfasste Domes 2014 und 2015 die Allgäu Krimis Voralpenphönix und Almwiesengift, die beide in Kaufbeuren und im Ostallgäu spielen.