Michael Thumann

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Michael Thumann (born December 8, 1962 ) is a German journalist and book author . He is the foreign policy correspondent for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , based in Berlin, and writes on international politics, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Life

As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , he studied history, politics and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin , at Columbia University in New York, at the Leningrad State University and at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow.

Professional career

Thumann is the foreign affairs correspondent for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , based in Berlin, and writes on international politics, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. From 2014 to 2015 he headed the Moscow office of Zeit . Until 2013 he was Zeit correspondent for the Near and Middle East based in Istanbul . Until the end of 2007 he coordinated the foreign policy reporting of the time . From 1996 to 2001 he was the Zeit correspondent in Moscow and reported on Russia and the Islamic peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Before that, he traveled to Southeastern Europe, especially the crumbling Yugoslavia, as the political editor of the time .

In 2000, Thumann was doing research at Lomonosov University in Moscow for a book on Russian federalism. In the same year he was doing research as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWIC) in Washington, DC

Positions

Russia

Thumann emphasizes that one must understand the profound changes Russia is going through. The country is far too big to turn under Western hugs or rebuff. To claim that the country only took its special route because the West acted one way or another is nothing less than an insult to a European country of this size. "Russia cannot be controlled or manipulated from outside."

Memberships

Prizes and awards

In 2012 he received the Helga and Edzard Reuter Prize for International Understanding and the German Journalist Prize in the Mobility & Logistics category for his reporting . In 2016 he received the German Journalist Award in the Open Topic category .

Private

Michael Thumann is married to the journalist Susanne Landwehr.

Publications

  • The song of the Russian earth. Moscow's struggle for unity and greatness , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Munich 2002;
  • La puissance russian. Un puzzle à reconstituer? , Paris, 2003;
  • Islam and the West , Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2003;
  • Turkey's Role Reversals , in: The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2010;
  • A very secular affair. The Power Struggle of Turkish Elites. Transatlantic Academy Paper Series, Washington, DC, 2010;
  • The Islam error. Europe's fear of the Muslim world . In: The Other Library . tape 319 . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-8218-6238-5 .
  • with Susanne Landwehr: New address Bosporus: How we tried to feel at home in Istanbul . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-63098-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Putin's policy: Anyone who wants to understand Russia should listen. In: zeit.de . December 12, 2014, accessed February 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ http://www.djp.de/preisverleihung_gewinner2012.html
personal data
SURNAME Thumann, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1962