Andreas Landwehr

Andreas Landwehr (born March 22, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) is a German journalist and long-time China correspondent. He received the Liberty Award in 2011 .

Life

Andreas Landwehr attended the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Neuss and studied Chinese from 1978 to 1983 in Taipei and Bonn , where he obtained a Chinese diploma. He has been working for the German press agency dpa since 1984 . During his work at the dpa headquarters located in Hamburg from 1985 to 1990, he followed the German turnaround and the beginning of reunification as a domestic editor . In 1990 he went to Washington as a foreign correspondent , from where he a. a. reported on the Gulf War for the liberation of Kuwait and on the election of Bill Clinton (1992) as US President . Andreas Landwehr has been the dpa office manager in Beijing since 1993 , where he is responsible for the People's Republic of China , Taiwan , Hong Kong and Mongolia . Andreas Landwehr is the nephew of the Dominican father Gordian Landwehr .

job

Andreas Landwehr reported on the death of Deng Xiaoping and the return of Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in 1999, the democratization of Taiwan and China's admission to the World Trade Organization WTO . In Beijing, he witnessed the SARS outbreak in 2002/2003 and the 2008 Olympic Games . In the same year he also reported on the uprisings in Tibet and the Sichuan earthquake . He interviewed many Chinese leaders (including Jiang Zemin , Zhu Rongji and Wen Jiabao ), but also many dissidents (including Bao Tong , Wang Dan , Wu'er Kaixi ). On many trips he got to know China, he was several times in Tibet. He also traveled to North Korea repeatedly .

Andreas Landwehr is a member of the G7 and G20 teams of dpa and reports at the annual summit on trade issues, climate change, development issues, aid organizations and the Asian heads of state and government.

In 2013, Landwehr took over the management of the newly created dpa regional network East Asia , which includes the greater China area, Japan and South Korea .

Award

In 2011, Andreas Landwehr received the Reemtsma Foundation's Liberty Award , which honors outstanding foreign correspondents who work in an extraordinary way for freedom. In the laudation it is emphasized that Andreas Landwehr has made a special contribution to human rights issues in his reporting since 1993, whereby he never put his own restrictions, but always the topic in the foreground.

items

Protectionism and Censorship. Business in China is getting more difficult, ntv, November 17, 2017

literature

Hanni Hüsch (ed.): This is how the world sees us: Views about Germany. Frankfurt 2013, (Chapter "China: In the Eye of the Dragon" by Andreas Landwehr)

Web links

Sigrid Schuer: Looking into the distance , in: Weser-Kurier February 27, 2016
Andreas Landwehr on repression and censorship , news.de, March 18, 2011 ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
dpa China correspondent Landwehr receives "Liberty Award" , time March 17, 2011
Nominees for the Liberty Award 2011 ( Memento from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ dpa correspondent Landwehr receives "Liberty Award" (with picture). Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c LIBERTY AWARD - 2011. November 8, 2015, archived from the original on November 8, 2015 ; accessed on April 17, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Landwehr, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf

[1] dpa correspondent Landwehr receives "Liberty Award" (with picture). Retrieved April 23, 2019 .

[A-2] LIBERTY AWARD - 2011. November 8, 2015, archived from the original on November 8, 2015 ; accessed on April 17, 2019 .