Ulrich Heyden

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Ulrich Heyden, autumn 2009

Ulrich Heyden (born September 24, 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and book author. He has been a freelance correspondent for several German-language media in Moscow since 1992 .

Life

After completing secondary school in Hamburg in 1974, Heyden began an apprenticeship as a metal aircraft maker in 1974 and then worked as a mechanic from 1977 to 1980 . On his second education path, he studied economics at the HWP Hamburg from 1981 to 1985 , followed by studies in medieval and modern history at the University of Hamburg , which he completed in 1990 with a master's degree.

In 1991 Heyden worked as a documentary journalist in the Spiegel archive . Since 1992 he has been a freelance correspondent in Moscow for Friday . He has been reporting for Telepolis since 2010, for the Nachdenkseiten since 2011 , for RT since 2016 and for Rubikon - magazine for critical masses since 2017 .

In the course of the Maidan protests in Kiev in 2014, Heyden distanced himself from the prevailing view in the west of a development in Ukraine that was by and large welcome. As a result, he lost numerous customers, as he reported in an interview with the Dresden coloRadio . From 2001 to 2014 he was a correspondent for the Sächsische Zeitung in Moscow. On June 30, 2014, the newspaper terminated the fee contract because of "quality defects" in his work. His lawsuit against the dismissal failed in the first and second instance. Other newspapers - such as the Salzburger Nachrichten , Die Presse , Aargauer Zeitung , Südostschweiz , Mittelbayerische Zeitung and Südkurier - also stopped printing his articles after years of collaboration. The weekly newspaper in Zurich, for which he has been writing since 1992, no longer wanted to apply for his accreditation in Russia in 2015. The reason given was an article for Telepolis in which Heyden had left a neutral position and sided with the internationally unrecognized People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk . Heyden ended his collaboration with Neues Deutschland , for which he has been writing since 1992, in 2017 because of differences of opinion over a Crimean report.

Heyden comments on events in Germany and Russia for Moscow TV channels, the radio station Goworit Moskwa and the Internet portal Pravda.ru. Heyden is also a participant in panel discussions in Eastern and Western Europe.

In addition to his main activity as a journalist, Heyden was a producer in the Moscow ZDF studio from 1996 to 1998 , from 1999 to 2000 lecturer at the Free Russian-German Institute for Communication at Lomonosov University , and in 2014 lecturer on the history of theory of economics at Moscow University of Economics, Statistics and computer science (MESI) and from 2014 to 2015 lecturer on theories of international relations at RANEPA in Moscow.

Together with Moscow correspondent Ute Weinmann , he wrote a book about the contemporary opposition in Russia in 2009 , which met with mixed criticism. The reviewer in Parliament criticized the “superficial and poorly structured presentation of individual phenomena of fragmented protest groups”. The Handelsblatt noted that the authors do not dig deep with their "sometimes superficial and sometimes helpless descriptions", but grants the authors the merit of "presenting today's opposition in Russia more broadly and lively than is otherwise customary in the West." The reviewer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung writes that the book tries to “explain aspects of Russia that are the most difficult to convey. There is no civil society, at least not in the sense that is common in western societies. ”Heyden is co-author of a book published in 2012 by Rotpunktverlag about self-government projects in various countries. He is also the author of the documentary “Wildfire” together with Marco Benson. The film takes up the thesis that the riots in Odessa on May 2, 2014 were prepared and that the police did not prevent the attacks on the pro-Russian activists. Die Junge Welt wrote, “In some moments in the film the narrative thread is lost, which is due to the high ambitions - as objective and comprehensive as possible. The strength of 'wildfire', however, is asking the right questions and letting eyewitnesses have their say ”.

On April 30, 2016, Heyden got a five-year entry ban for Ukraine stamped on his passport by Ukrainian border guards at Odessa Airport.

Publications

Awards

  • 2008: Second prize in the journalists' competition Das goldene Verb - organized by the Russian organization Mediasoyus - in the category "Travel through Russia" for a report in the Sächsische Zeitung about the reconstruction of a Russian Orthodox Church (2008)
  • 2010: Awarded as a long-time Russia correspondent by Mediasoyus for his "contribution to international journalism"

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Article by Ulrich Heyden in Freitag
  2. ↑ Article by Ulrich Heyden for Telepolis
  3. ↑ Article by Ulrich Heyden for the reflection pages
  4. ↑ Article by Ulrich Heyden for RT
  5. ↑ Article by Ulrich Heyden for Rubikon
  6. ↑ Interview in coloRadio on December 20, 2014 [1]
  7. ^ Article by Ulrich Heyden for the Sächsische Zeitung
  8. ↑ "The background to the termination was the poor quality of the plaintiff's activities." Application for dismissal by the legal representative of the Sächsische Zeitung to the Dresden Labor Court, July 31, 2014, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Minutes of the Dresden Labor Court, October 9, 2014, minutes of the Chemnitz Labor Court, March 12, 2015, Az .: 6 Sa 647/14 and 5 Ca 874/14 ArbG Dresden
  10. ↑ Article by Ulrich Heyden in Die Wochenzeitung
  11. ↑ Ulrich Heyden: Assassination attempt against the "Che Guevara von Lugansk" . In Telepolis , May 24, 2015 ( [2] )
  12. ↑ Article by Ulrich Heyden in Neues Deutschland
  13. ^ Declaration on an intervention by the editorial team of Neues Deutschland [3]
  14. ↑ Ulrich Heyden's appearances in Russian media (list) [4]
  15. ^ Contributions by Ulrich Heyden for the radio station Govorit Moskva
  16. ^ Articles by Ulrich Heyden for Pravda.ru
  17. ↑ Participation in panel discussions in Eastern and Western Europe
  18. ↑ Mention of Ulrich Heyden on Ranepa.ru [5]
  19. ^ Seminar by Ulrich Heyden on the Smart City concept [6]
  20. ↑ Gemma Pörzgen: Am Gängelband. In: The Parliament No. 41/2009 ( [7] )
  21. ^ Mathias Brüggmann: The vertical of power. In: Handelsblatt of August 16, 2009 ( [8] )
  22. ^ Rupert Neudeck: Rule wants to be fortified. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 18, 2010 ( press comments on the book by Ulrich Heyden and Ute Weinmann published by Rotpunktverlag in 2009 ( memento from January 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [])
  23. ↑ Bettina Dyttrich / Pit Wuhrer (ed.): Economy for luck: Working in solidarity today worldwide . Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85869-498-0
  24. ↑ Ulrich Heyden, Marco Benson leftvision.de: Wildfire - A tragedy tears up Odessa at the beginning of the Ukrainian civil war . Documentary, February 18, 2015 on YouTube
  25. ↑ The mob in Odessa. In: Junge Welt . February 20, 2015 ( jungewelt.de ).
  26. ↑ Denis Trubetskoy: Data theft for journalist hunting. In: New Germany . May 18, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2017 ( Paywall ).
  27. ↑ Russian Prize for SZ Correspondents. In: Saxon newspaper. December 6, 2008 ( sz-online.de ).
  28. ^ SZ correspondent Ulrich Heyden honored in Moscow. In: Saxon newspaper. December 20, 2010 ( sz-online.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Heyden, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, Russia correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg