Kurt Pelda

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Kurt Pelda (* 1965 in Basel ) is a Swiss economist , editor , journalist and war reporter .

Life

In 1984 Pelda reported for the first time from a war zone in Afghanistan . He studied economics at the University of Basel and received his doctorate in 1998 . After graduation, he worked as a business editor and Africa and Southeast Asia correspondent, including 1999 to 2001 for the Financial Times Deutschland in New York and 2002 to 2010 for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Since 2010 he has been working as a freelance journalist with a focus on North Africa and the Middle East . So far he has reported from 17 war zones. His reports and articles appeared in various media, mainly in Weltwoche . Since February 2017, he has had his main job at the Tages-Anzeiger in the research department, and he also continues to work as a freelance journalist for the Rundschau (SRF) broadcast and for international media.

Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011, he has also traveled to hot spots where rebels fought against the Assad government and Kurds against the terrorist organization of the Islamic State . Thanks to contacts with local people he trusted in him, he came to contested zones in order to be able to report directly from them about the brutality of the civil war.

In 2015, Pelda made a documentary with Andrea Pfalzgraf and other participants about a Syrian family from Azaz who fled to Switzerland via Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Austria. He knows this family, sometimes escorted them on their flight and supported them in their difficult project.

In March 2017 it became known that Pelda, along with the editor-in-chief of the magazine Zenith , Daniel Gerlach and the German-Ecuadorian reporter and documentary filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen , was on an entry ban list issued by the Syrian government.

Honors

In 2014, Pelda received the human rights award of the Swiss section of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) in Bern .

In the same year he was voted Reporter of the Year by readers of the magazine Schweizer Journalist in the Reporter category and finally as Journalist of the Year 2014 . In 2016 he came in third place for Journalist of the Year .

Publications

Fonts

Television and film

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Title entry of the dissertation , catalog of the NEBIS library network , accessed on November 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Kurt Pelda will do research for the “Tages-Anzeiger” in the future. In: persoenlich.com from January 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ http://www.beobachter.ch/justiz-behoerde/gesetze-recht/artikel/kurt-pelda_der-tod-ist-nicht-das-schlimmste/#
  4. ↑ Susanne Klaiber: "Rubble pelted like rain on the street". In: Focus Online . August 22, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ http://folio.nzz.ch/2013/september/im-stich- Lassen
  6. ↑ Simon Jäggi: Neutrality is not an option. In: TagesWoche from September 4, 2014.
  7. ↑ «They wanted to kill us» - A Syrian family on the run. DOK SRF, December 10, 2015
  8. ^ Zapp - Syria journalists on wanted list on NDR-online from March 8, 2017, accessed on March 13, 2017
  9. ↑ http://www.srf.ch/news/panorama/kurt-pelda-erhaelt-menschenrechtspreis-und-kritisiert-die-medien
  10. ↑ Kurt Pelda is “Journalist of the Year” in: Tages-Anzeiger .ch on December 12, 2014.
  11. ↑ Daniel Ryser named “Journalist of the Year” on November 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Pelda, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist, editor, journalist and war reporter
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel