Andrea Jeska

Andrea Jeska (* 1964 in Bremerhaven ) is a journalist and writer .

As a journalist she works for national print media, including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , Freitag , Brigitte , Chrismon , African Times and Eurasisches Magazin . She became known with her first work on the victims of the terrorist attack on school number one in Beslan, Ossetia .

For an article in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Jeska was awarded one of the three Theodor Wolff Prizes in 2013 in the Reportage / Essay / Analysis category. The article is about the farmer Yacouba Sawadogo in Burkina Faso , who tries to stop the spread of the desert in the Sahel zone by planting trees using the advanced Zaï method. For this article she also received the German Reporter Award 2013 in the category Best Freelance Reporter.

Andrea Jeska has three children and lives near Lübeck.

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Books

• Beslan, Requiem , Brendow 2005, ISBN 978-3865060716
• From the Picture of the World , Roman, Brendow 2006
• When the Inkosi learned to dance , Brendow 2007, ISBN 978-3865061645
• Chechnya forgotten children (together with Musa Sadulajew), Brendow 2007, ISBN 978-3865061898
• We are not a girls' association - women in the Bundeswehr , Diana Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3453290969
• The Longing of the Snake God , Reading Tour Zimbabwe, Picus 2013, ISBN 978-3711710321

Movies

• The dead children of Beslan, WDR 2005
• Rothkirch's War, NDR 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrea Jeska in the catalog of the German National Library
• Articles by Andrea Jeska in the Eurasian magazine

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1. ↑ Andrea Jeska: Death of a Terrorist. In: Friday , September 29, 2006.
2. ↑ Andrea Jeska: The man who stopped the desert. In: Die Zeit , November 29, 2012.
3. ^ The winners of the Theodor Wolff Prize 2013. In: Meedia , September 5, 2013.
4. ↑ German Reporter Prize 2013 awarded in Berlin. In: Reporter Forum , 2013.