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Adrian Geiges (born September 3, 1960 in Basel , Switzerland ) is a German writer and journalist .
Life
Adrian Geiges is the son of the photographer Leif Geiges . He grew up in Staufen im Breisgau . As a teenager he joined the Socialist German Workers' Youth (SDAJ) and in 1976 the German Communist Party (DKP). In 1979 he lived “undercover” for a year in the GDR , where he also trained in a management workshop near Berlin and, according to his own statements, wanted to become a “professional revolutionary”. After graduating from high school, he began to study journalism, politics and history at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster , but dropped out after a few semesters and completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk. As a DKP functionary and reporter for the communist youth magazine Elan , he was able to travel to the Soviet Union , the People's Republic of China , Vietnam , Cuba and Nicaragua . At the end of the 1980s he distanced himself from communism . He learned Russian for several months at the Ruhr University in Bochum and then worked as a journalist from 1990 for RTL Explosiv and Spiegel TV in Moscow and later for another client in New York City .
After a 1-year Chinese course in China, he helped set up Bertelsmann's magazine business in China as managing director . From summer 2004 to 2008, Adrian Geiges was the star's Asia correspondent in Beijing . From 2009 he was part of Stefan Aust's team in Hamburg , which developed a new magazine and produced documentary films.
From 2013 to 2016 Adrian Geiges lived in Rio de Janeiro , where he worked as a correspondent and documentary filmmaker a. a. worked for RTL and WDR . Since September 1, 2016, he has been editor-in-chief of the corporate magazine " Evonik " for the Hamburg media agency Bissinger plus . Geiges is the author of various books.
Works
- Brazil is on fire . Quadriga 2014
- With Confucius to a world power (together with Stefan Aust). Quadriga 2012
- Instructions for use for Beijing and Shanghai . Piper 2009
- China. The story of the new world power . Dtv Premium 2009
- How the world revolution accidentally started in the Black Forest , Chinese edition. New Star Press 2009
- How the world revolution started accidentally in the Black Forest . Eichborn 2007
- Russia Explosiv (together with Andre Zalbertus). vgs 1994
- Love is not on the plan (together with Tatjana Suvorova), Japanese edition. JICC 1992
- Love is not on the plan (together with Tatyana Suvorova), Russian edition. Sobesednik 1990
- Revolution without shots , Turkish edition, Iletisim Yayinlari, 1990
- Love is not on the plan (together with Tatyana Suvorova). Wolfgang Krüger / S. Fischer 1989
- Revolution without shots. Pahl-Rugenstein 1988
- China on the move. Pahl-Rugenstein 1987
Web links
- Literature by and about Adrian Geiges in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Adrian Geiges
- Audio interview and reading sample Adrian Geiges
Individual evidence
- ^ Bissinger +. Retrieved July 2, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Violin, Adrian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |