Eva Schweitzer
Eva Claudia Schweitzer (* 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German Americanist , journalist and book author. She is the recipient of the Theodor Wolff Prize .
Life
Eva Schweitzer went in Upper Bavaria and Oxnard (California) to school and made 1979 the scientific Schyren High School in Pfaffenhofen her high school . She then briefly studied physics at Ludwig Maximilians University , but switched to German , newspaper studies and American studies . After completing her basic studies, she moved to Berlin, where she received her Magister Artium in German at the Free University in 1986 with a thesis on Christa Wolf's novel Kassandra . In 2002 she received her PhD in American Studies. Her dissertation was published as a book in 2003 under the title New York City, Times Square. Urban development, politics and the media .
Even during her studies, she worked for various media, including the daily newspaper , the SFB at the time , the Tagesspiegel , the Berliner Zeitung and the Stern . After years as a freelance journalist, she became an editor at taz in 1992 and in the same year was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize for her article about a murder in the Berlin building scene at the time of the fall of the wall . From 1993 to 2000 she was an editor at Tagesspiegel in Berlin.
She has lived in New York since 1998 and has been working as the USA correspondent for Die Zeit , the Berliner Zeitung , the Financial Times Deutschland , the Frankfurter Rundschau and Cicero since 2000 . She writes a media-critical blog about America for the daily newspaper .
Publications
Books
- America's shadow warriors. How the US has spied on and manipulated us for decades . Piper, Munich / Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05686-1 .
- Tea Party - the white rage. What makes America's New Right so dangerous . dtv, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-24904-1 (about the current US tea party movement )
- America and the Holocaust. The secret story . Knaur, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-426-77784-8 .
- New York City, Times Square . Urban development, politics and the media . Leue, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-923421-12-5 (= Edition City and Region , Volume 6; also dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin 2002).
- Major construction site in Berlin. How the capital is planned . Nicolai, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-580-3 → third edition as paperback: Ullstein, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-35767-9 .
Journalistic articles
- Neocons in the US. Bush's old warmongers report back , Cicero, June 25, 2014
- U.S. Climate Warning Deepens Rift Between Right and Left , Zeit Online, May 7, 2014
- The voice of freedom . Superstar Glenn Beck . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 6, 2010.
- Build properly with Brad Pitt . A foundation is building exemplary eco-houseswhere the flood after " Katrina " in New Orleans left the greatest damage. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 19, 2008.
- USA on the division of Germany: "A wall is damn better than a war" in Cicero , August 12, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Eva Schweitzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Eva Schweitzer at perlentaucher.de
- Manhattan Media , Eva Schweitzer's taz.Blog
- Articles by Eva C. Schweitzer on Zeit Online
- The white rage of the Americans. Eva Schweitzer and her book "Tea Party" , 3sat Kultur, January 30, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://lccn.loc.gov/n96113248
- ↑ Eva C. Schweitzer - Vita ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schweitzer, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schweitzer, Eva Claudia (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Americanist and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |