Annabel Wahba

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Annabel Wahba (born May 17, 1972 in Munich ) is a German journalist , screenwriter and writer for young people . The main themes of her reports are politics in the Middle East as well as displacement and integration .

Career

Wahba's Coptic father came to Munich in 1958 after studying physics at the Ain-Schams-Universität as a scholarship holder, where he met her mother, a German librarian. After receiving his doctorate in 1964 as Dr.-Ing. at the Technical University of Munich , they moved to Cairo together with the two eldest siblings of Wahba . After the Six Day War , the family emigrated to Germany in 1968, where, in addition to his work for the Society for Plant and Reactor Safety , their father helped found the Coptic communities in Germany from 1975 to 1980. Annabel Wahba is Erdinger district Bergham grew up and went to school. After graduating from high school in 1991, she completed a traineeship at the German School of Journalism . In 1997 she completed her studies in political science at the University of Munich with a master's degree.

During her studies she fell in love with an Israeli , because of whom she went to Israel for two years as a freelance correspondent for the Middle East after completing her master's degree . Her experiences as a German with Arabic roots between Jews processed together with her future husband, the schottischstämmigen journalist and screenwriter Barry Thomson, the writer of a 2014 Degeto movie for BR television filmed culture clash comedy . From the point of view of the Tagesspiegel , a “successful, spirited ARD film [...], which could also have been made by Woody Allen ,” came out. For Tilmann P. Gangloff , the script stood out for its "many funny ideas" and "happily resolved explosive moments in a wonderful way."

In 1999 Wahba returned to Germany and was part of the editorial team of the youth magazine Jetzt from October 1999 to 2001 . From 2001 to 2006 she was an editor on the report page of the Tagesspiegel , since 2007 she has been an employee of Die Zeit .

In 2006/2007, Wahba and her husband completed an apprenticeship at the Munich scriptwriting workshop . Among other things, Wahba was involved in the scripts of several SOKO Leipzig and Degeto films .

Wahba's report “The Last Chat” was nominated in 2009 for the German Reporter Award. Her article "My cleaning lady returns home" was selected for the short list of the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 2009 . Wahbas, together with a journalist group of the time, carried out research on the allegations of sexual assault against Dieter Wedel in the course of the #MeToo debate were included in the short list of the Nannen Prize in the "Investigation" category; the research team with the German was responsible for the reports Reporter Prize and the Lighthouse Prize as well as Journalist of the Year .

Wahba has lived in Berlin since 2001 with her husband Barry Thomson and their children.

Books

  • Annabel Wahba: A Thousand Leagues Across the Sea: The Escape of Karim Deeb . cbj Children's Books Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-570-40335-8 .
  • Annabel Wahba: My attempt to eat ethically . In: Gunther Hirschfelder , Angelika Ploeger, Jana Rückert-John, Gesa Schönberger (eds.): What humans are allowed to eat: Economic compulsion, ecological conscience and global conflicts . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01465-0 , pp. 309-314 ( restricted preview ).

Filmography

  • Blinde Liebe, SOKO Leipzig No. 343 S17E7, first broadcast on February 16, 2018.
  • False Hope, SOKO Leipzig No. 345 S18E2, first broadcast on September 21, 2018.
  • Tart mixture, Degeto Film / BR Fernsehen , first broadcast on November 4, 2015.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Dr. Adly Wahba . In: Information sheet of the Coptic Orthodox Congregation in Munich and the surrounding area . March 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ I am a chameleon . In: The time . No. 40 2006, September 28, 2006.
  3. ↑ Max Ferstl: The chameleon principle . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 28th July 2017.
  4. ↑ Annabel Wahba: Relationship Status : It's Complicated . In: ZEITMagazin . No. 50/2014, December 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: The country euro sufferers . In: Tagesspiegel . 4th November 2015.
  6. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Laughter gets stuck in the throat . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . 4th November 2015.
  7. ↑ Graduates . In: Script workshop Munich .
  8. ↑ Annabel Wahba: The last chat . In: The time . No. 26 2009, June 18, 2009.
  9. ↑ Reporter Prize 2009 - Nominated Texts . ( Memento from November 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: reporter-forum.de . November 2009.
  10. ↑ Annabel Wahba: My cleaning lady is coming home . In: The time . No. 35 2008, August 21, 2008.
  11. ↑ Nominations for the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize 2009 . ( Memento of May 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Henri Nannen Prize . March 2009.
  12. ↑ Nannen Prize 2019 - Shortlists . In: Nannen price . April 2019.
  13. ↑ a b ZEITmagazin and DIE ZEIT win three awards . In: Zeit Online . 4th December 2018.
  14. ↑ a b Leuchtturm 2018 for the MeToo research team of ZEIT . In: Network Research . June 29, 2018.
  15. ↑ SOKO Leipzig - "Blind love" . In: quotenmeter.de .
  16. ↑ SOKO Leipzig - "False Hope" . In: quotenmeter.de .
  17. ↑ TV film “Herbe Mixture” . In: tittelbach.tv .
  18. ↑ Jana Simon , Annabel Wahba, Christian Fuchs , Nadine Ahr , Anne Kunze , Amrai Coen and Götz Hamann : In the twilight . In: ZEITMagazin . No. 2/2018, January 3, 2018.
  19. ^ Jana Simon , Annabel Wahba, Christian Fuchs , Khuê Pham and Nadine Ahr : Der Schattenmann . In: The time . No. 5/2018, January 25, 2018.
  20. ↑ Marc Bartl: Stephan Lamby is Journalist of the Year 2018 - Melanie Amann and Markus Lanz also honored . In: kressreport . December 18, 2018.
  21. ↑ Annabel Wahba: Under one roof . In: ZEITmagazin . No. 43/2016, October 14, 2016.
  22. ↑ Prize winners . In: Inner Mission Munich .
  23. ↑ Annabel Wahba: My Arab father . In: ZEITmagazin . April 14, 2016.
  24. ↑ Flight and Christian Responsibility . In: Other times . July 27, 2016.
  25. ↑ Annabel Wahba: Auschwitz belongs to me . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 14, 1998.
  26. ↑ Springer Prize for the best young journalists . In: The world . May 4, 1999.
  27. ↑ I own Auschwitz . In: Emma . July / August 2000, pp. 51-53.
personal data
SURNAME Wahba, Annabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich