Andrea Boehm
Andrea Böhm (* 1961 in Munich ) is a German journalist .
Career
Böhm studied political science in Berlin and in the USA. She then graduated from the German School of Journalism .
She was America's correspondent for the taz . She worked for the Dossier der Zeit for two years , then returned to the USA, where she worked as a freelance journalist in New York for more than ten years for taz , die Zeit , Geo and others. She has been the editor of Die Zeit since 2006 . Since 2013 she is in Beirut correspondent of time for the Middle East.
Her focus is on Africa, especially the Congo , civil wars , rebels, war criminals and the international criminal court . For her non-fiction book God and the Crocodiles. A trip through the Congo she was nominated in 2011 for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction / essay category.
Prizes and awards
- 2004 Theodor Wolff Prize
- 2010 Hansel Mieth Prize
Books
- The Americans: Journey through an unknown empire. 2nd updated edition, Herder Freiburg 2006 ISBN 978-3-451-05657-4
- God and the crocodiles. A trip through the Congo. Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2011 ISBN 9783570551257
- The end of the western world order. An exploration on four continents. Pantheon Verlag, Munich - Berlin 2017 ISBN 9783570552360
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Andrea Böhm at perlentaucher.de
- http://boehmslogbuch.wordpress.com/ (private; requires WordPress.com account)
- Profile Andrea Böhm. ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Zeit Online .
- Profile Andrea Böhm. In: Zeit Online .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Boehm: Beirut: We are all Beirut. In: Zeit Online. November 14, 2015, accessed November 15, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bohm, Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |