Alex Baur

Alexander "Alex" Baur (born August 12, 1961 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss journalist and author .

Baur was a local journalist for the Limmattaler Zeitung , court reporter for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , reporter for the SonntagsZeitung , the Stern and the magazine . In 2001, GEO introduced a report on a topic from Switzerland in the Swiss edition under the heading “Swiss arena”. From 2001 to 2004, Baur was the editor in charge of the rubric. Since 2005 he has been editor of the Swiss weekly newspaper Die Weltwoche .

Baur lived in Peru from 1980 to 1985 and later worked repeatedly as a reporter there as well as in Bolivia , Chile , Mexico , Colombia and Honduras . In the 1990s he wrote a series of reports on the judicial case involving Nestlé director Andreas Hänggi and his son Nicolas Hänggi, as well as the murder investigation in the case of Bishop Juan Gerardi, for the SonntagsZeitung and the NZZ on site in Guatemala . In 2004 he wrote several articles in Guatemala for Weltwoche about the election of Óscar Berger Perdomo and the dispute between Rigoberta Menchú and Efraín Ríos Montt, as well as about the former president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán .

He was awarded the Alstom Journalist Prize in 2004. In 2014 he received the Zurich Journalism Award . The Zurich Higher Court sentenced him in 2018 after a lawsuit brought by Rudolf Elmer for personal injury.

Publications

• Incident in the social welfare office. Elster-Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-907668-88-7 .
• The curse of the good. Münster Verlag, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-907146-54-5 .

Web links

• LandmannTalk. Alex Baur in conversation with Valentin Landmann , April 5, 2019 (55 min)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Geo" new with "Schauplatz Schweiz". Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Weltwoche: Alex Bauer strengthens the domestic editorial team. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
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4. ↑ NZZ, strangers attack the family of “Weltwoche” journalist Alex Baur
5. ↑ Basler Zeitung “Weltwoche” loses against ex-banker Elmer , June 10, 2017