Claus Biegert

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Claus Biegert (* 1947 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) is a German journalist and author who is best known for his publications about his research among Indians in the USA and Canada.

Live and act

Claus Biegert trained as an editor at the Münchner Abendzeitung and has been working as a journalist since 1971. When he heard of clashes between Indians and the police in the USA, he produced a radio program on the spot about the life of the Iroquois . His further work took him several times to North America, where he experienced and reported in particular the threat to the indigenous peoples from nuclear technologies, the mining of uranium, tests of nuclear weapons and the storage of nuclear waste.

Claus Biegert initiated the World Uranium Hearing conference in Salzburg in 1992 and, as a result of this conference, together with Christa Lubberger and Franz Moll, founded the Nuclear-Free Future Award , which has been awarded annually in various places around the world since 1998. In 2003 he organized a benefit concert for the Nuclear-Free Future Award as part of the Tollwood Festival , which featured folk musicians Arlo Guthrie , John Sheahan and Barney McKenna , as well as blues guitarist Hans Theessink and Peter Gordon as saxophonist .

In addition to his work on Indian peoples, Biegert wrote other writings on environmental issues as well as manuscripts for radio broadcasts and television documentaries, which he also directed. He writes for the popular science magazine natur and the magazine Oya . He taught at the German School of Journalism in Munich until 2008 and is a member of the advisory board of the Society for Threatened Peoples .

In 2010 he received the Neumarkter Lammsbräu sustainability award in the media representative category and in 2013 the Leopold Kohr honor award.

Claus Biegert worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bayern 2) until 2012 . He lives in Munich and on the Staffelsee.

Fonts

  • with Diethard Wies: Children are not property. Piper, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-492-00347-8 .
  • Without a constitution for two hundred years. USA: Indians in resistance. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-499-14056-X .
  • (Ed.): Indian schools. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-499-17278-X .
  • with Rainer Wittenborn: The great river drowns in water. James Bay, journey to a dying part of the earth. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-498-00479-4 .
  • (Ed.): Indian worlds: giving the earth a voice. Texts from North American Indians. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-15219-3 .
  • with Elke Stolhofer (Ed.): The death that comes from the earth. Testimonies of nuclear destruction, natives of the earth at the World Uranium Hearing. Pustet, Salzburg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7025-0307-2 .
  • (Arr.): The wounds of freedom. Lamuv, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-88977-368-0 .
  • with Carl-Ludwig Reichert (Hrsg.): Nur Trämmen will survive / Vine Deloria (Original title: We Talk - You Listen. ) Translated from American English by the working group for North American Indians and Ursula Wolf. Lamuv, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-88977-427-X .
  • (Ed.): The Monday that changed the world. Reading book of the atomic age. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-499-13939-1 .
  • with Hans Peter Thiel, Udo Kruse-Schulz: Blue whirlwind and red cloud. Saatkorn, Lüneburg 2000, ISBN 3-8150-1150-7 .
  • with Georg Gaupp-Berghausen (Ed.): From the essence of water. Frederking and Thaler, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89405-658-4 .

Films and television documentaries

  • 2001: Los Alamos and the heirs of the bomb (International: The Secret and the Sacred: Two Worlds at Los Alamos ), coproduction: DenkMal-Film, ARTE and Hessischer Rundfunk , screenplay and director: Claus Biegert
  • 2003: Die Donnervogelfrau (International: The Thunderbird Woman ), co-production: DenkMal-Film, ARTE and Bayerischer Rundfunk, directors: Bertram Verhaag and Claus Biegert
  • 2013: Leonard Peltier: I am the Indian Voice (English and German), production: biegert-film, script and direction: Claus Biegert
  • 2014: Exit 16 - Onondaga Nation Territory (English), production: biegert-film, script and director: Claus Biegert

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winner of the sustainability award on lammsbraeu.de
  2. ^ The Thunderbird Woman ( Memento from September 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Biegert, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Murnau am Staffelsee