Anne Siemens
Anne Ameri-Siemens (born March 6, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German author .
Anne Siemens studied political science and has dealt with German terrorism for many years . She was editor of the magazine now for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and works as a freelance writer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Tagesspiegel , among others . She is also a lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
Her book, published in February 2007, attracted nationwide attention. For the RAF he was the system, for me the father . In it, survivors of victims of left-wing terrorism have their say. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published excerpts in advance. FAZ editor Frank Schirrmacher dedicated a comprehensive article to the book on the front page of the feature section . Reviews also appeared in all other major daily newspapers and magazines. Die Zeit highlighted the book's "new perspective". The taz spoke of a "remarkable book". Siemens received the Corine Literature Prize in the non-fiction category for this book .
In January 2008 she was awarded the Golden Prometheus Journalism Prize. For the ARD / NDR documentary Who gave you the right to murder? , the film adaptation of her book about the victims of the RAF, she was also nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2008. The FAZ praised the film as an “outstanding documentary”. Ameri-Siemens continued its collaboration with NDR: Their documentation They thought we were weirdos - when parents reinvented upbringing, it was broadcast in September 2008.
Works
- Anne Maria Siemens: Through the institutions or into terrorism - The paths of Joschka Fischer , Daniel Cohn-Bendit , Hans-Joachim Klein and Johannes Weinrich . Munich 2005 ( dissertation ).
- Anne Siemens: For the RAF he was the system, for me the father - the other story of German terrorism . Piper Verlag , 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-05024-1 .
- Anne Ameri-Siemens: See you soon, Tehran - The princess Azar and the fight for freedom in Iran . Piper, 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05227-6 .
- Essay on the homepage of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, September 24, 2007: The victims of the RAF
- Anne Ameri-Siemens: One day in autumn. The RAF, the state and the Schleyer case . Rowohlt Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-87134-834-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Anne Siemens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anne Siemens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ What do we know about terrorism? In: FAZ . February 12, 2007, p. 33 ( online ).
- ↑ Who was it . In: FAZ . February 13, 2007, p. 31 .
- ↑ Thomas E. Schmidt : A cold, dark spot . In: The time . February 22, 2007 ( online ).
- ↑ Jan Feddersen : Chills of a time . In: taz . February 24, 2007 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siemens, Anne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ameri-Siemens, Anne (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |