Thomas Deichmann

Thomas Deichmann (* 1962 ) is a German journalist and book author . He was the founder and from November 1992 to May 2011 editor-in-chief and publisher of the two-month political magazine NovoArgumente . At the beginning of 2011 he worked as a communications manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland . In August 2011, he moved to industry as a communications manager and initially worked for BASF Plant Science and BASF SE before continuing his professional career in other companies.

Life

After obtaining his engineering diploma in 1989 and subsequent scientific collaboration at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Deichmann has been publishing on foreign and scientific policy issues since 1992. He was first known in 1997 through an essay on the war in Yugoslavia . This essay was part of his journalistic research as a so-called expert witness on behalf of a Dutch law firm for the defense of the Bosnian-Serb politician Duško Tadić , who was later convicted as a war criminal, before the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia . Deichmann themed in the essay the famous photo from 1992 that the emaciated Bosnian Muslim Fikret Alić along with other behind a barbed wire fence in the Bosnian Trnopolje camp abbildete and associations with the concentration camps of the Nazis aroused. He claimed that it was the British journalists who took the picture, and not the people who were photographed, who were behind the fence. The fence was located in the immediate vicinity of the actual camp site and surrounded a small area from which the photo was taken. Deichmann therefore said that the recording was a deception of the public. His contribution sparked a violent journalistic and legal controversy. Deichmann also appeared as a witness for the defense of Tadić.

Deichmann's criticism was later directed primarily against ecologically oriented non - governmental organizations . For example, he accused the environmental protection organization Greenpeace of claiming that their campaigns against genetically modified organisms were unscientific and that they violated the law. Against Greenpeace Energy , he accused his own customers of leaving their own customers in the dark about the origin of the in-house green electricity supply. In 2009 Deichmann was awarded the InnoPlanta special prize for objective and generally understandable reporting on green biotechnology. The book "The Stone Age is Stuck in Our Bones", written with Detlev Ganten and Thilo Spahl , was named Science Book of the Year 2010. Deichmann was an expert in the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment of the German Bundestag and acted as a speaker and teacher a. a. at the European Science Open Forum, at the Cologne Institute for Journalism, at the Henri-Nannen-Schule Berlin, the TU Munich , FU Berlin and TU Berlin .

Deichmann's publications at Suhrkamp Verlag , Eichborn Verlag , Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv) and Piper Verlag as well as in the daily newspapers “ Die Welt ”, “ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ” (FAZ), “ Junge Welt ”, in the weekly newspapers “ Die ZEIT ”, “ Freitag "," Focus "and" Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung ", in the monthly magazines" Cicero "and" brand eins "and until 2010 on the" Axis of the Good ", range from the media reception of the Yugoslav wars to scientific and scientific policy issues . Deichmann took a stand against what he calls the " moralization of foreign policy". In addition, his comments and articles in daily newspapers were directed against what he saw as the “ ecologism ” and the current policy of “consumer protection”. Deichmann describes himself as a "progress optimist". Since 2007 Deichmann has been traveling regularly to the Balkan region together with the Austrian writer Peter Handke . He organized photo exhibitions about the trips and published several publications about them.

bibliography

(sorted chronologically in descending order)

• Detlev Ganten, Thomas Deichmann, Thilo Spahl: The Stone Age is in our bones. Health as a legacy of evolution . Piper-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05271-9 .
• Thomas Deichmann: Why fear green genetic engineering? Projekt-Verlag, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3-86634-693-2 .
• Thomas Deichmann and Thilo Spahl: The most important things about nature and technology . dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-34363-X .
• Thomas Deichmann, Thilo Spahl: The most important things about people and health . dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-34362-1 .
• Detlev Ganten, Thomas Deichmann, Thilo Spahl: Natural science: everything you need to know . dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-34237-4 .
• Detlev Ganten, Thomas Deichmann, Thilo Spahl: Life, nature, science: everything you need to know . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-8218-3981-3 .
• Thomas Deichmann, Thilo Spahl: The popular lexicon of genetic engineering . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8218-1697-X .
• Thomas Deichmann (Ed.): Once again for Yugoslavia: Peter Handke . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-39406-1 .
• Klaus Bittermann , Günter Amendt, Thomas Deichmann (eds.): As Dr. Joseph Fischer learned to love the bomb: the SPD, the Greens, NATO and the war in the Balkans . Ed. Tiamat, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89320-025-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Deichmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ It was this image that put the world on alert (Penny Marshall, ITN)
2. ↑ Not for profit or dangerous to the public?
3. ↑ Greenpeace Energy: Hangover for the tenth birthday.
4. ↑ https://www.achgut.com/autor/deichmann
5. ↑ is there a choice?
6. ↑ Today, politics no longer speaks of the responsible citizen, but of the endangered consumer.
7. ↑ I am and will remain a progress optimist.
8. ↑ iterature and travel with Peter Handke.