Ashwin Raman

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Ashwin Raman (born June 18, 1946 in Mumbai ) is a German reporter and documentary filmmaker of Indian origin, who is best known for his reporting from war and crisis areas. He was awarded the Grimme Prize (2017) for his journalistic achievements .

Life

Raman was born in Mumbai on June 18, 1946, the son of a journalist and a teacher. After studying literature in India and at the University of Oxford , he began working as a reporter for the Times of India . In the 1970s, Raman was arrested for violating state-imposed press censorship . With the support of Amnesty International , he managed to leave for Germany in 1975.

In Hamburg he began to write for Spiegel and Die Zeit , although his texts initially had to be translated. He worked for Amnesty International in Los Angeles for some time , wrote for the Los Angeles Times and then traveled to Nicaragua as a freelance journalist , where he reported on the civil war there for various newspapers. It was there that he made his first documentary With the Sandinistas (1978), which he shot in 16 mm format and sold to various television companies. After the end of the civil war in 1979 he moved back to Germany and took German citizenship in 1985.

From the 1980s onwards, Raman devoted himself more and more to documentary film , and he acquired the necessary knowledge self- taught. To date, Raman has shot over 200 documentaries as a “one-man team”. Since the 2000s, he has focused primarily on war and crisis reports for public broadcasters and has traveled to Afghanistan , Somalia , Iraq and Syria , among others . In 2019, he announced that he was withdrawing from war reporting because he was "war-tired" and in poor health.

For his work, Raman has been awarded the Robert Geisendörfer Prize (2012), the international CNN Rory Peck Award and the German TV Prize, among others .

Raman lives in Selm in North Rhine-Westphalia. He is married and has two sons.

Documentation (selection)

  • 1978: With the Sandinistas
  • 2002: Die Hungermacher (in collaboration with Manfred Ladwig)
  • 2003: The prisoners of Guantanamo Bay
  • 2004: Who is behind the attacks in Iraq?
  • 2006: The secret helpers of the CIA (in cooperation with Ulli Neuhoff , Wiltrud Kremer and Joachim Görgen)
  • 2007: Baghdad Command - US soldiers in Iraq
  • 2008: The US shadow army in Iraq
  • 2010: On the front lines - everyday war in Afghanistan
  • 2010: Somalia - country without a law
  • 2011: So close to death - Afghanistan in the tenth year of the war
  • 2011: The Returners - What Remains of the Iraq War
  • 2012: In the land of pirates - terror off Somalia's coasts
  • 2014: Abduction on the high seas - Somali pirates and the case of MV Taipan
  • 2015: the 13th year. The lost war in Afghanistan
  • 2016: In the fog of war - On the front lines to the "Islamic State"
  • 2016: At the forefront
  • 2017: In the fight against IS - is the caliphate at an end?
  • 2018: In the land of the Taliban

Awards

  • 2007: Received the Rory Peck Award for Baghdad Command - US soldiers in Iraq
  • 2010: Awarded the German Television Prize in the “Best Report” category for Somalia - a country without a law
  • 2011: Nomination for the Grimme Prize in the “Information & Culture” category for Somalia - a country without a law
  • 2012: Awarded the Robert Geisendörfer Special Prize
  • 2015: Awarded the Otto Brenner Prize for the 13th year. The lost war in Afghanistan
  • 2017: Grimme Prize for his special journalistic achievement in the productions "In the fog of war - On the front lines to the 'Islamic State'" and "On the front line"

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth Cultura21 web magazine, accessed on September 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ I report first hand, I'm in the middle of it Gazelle Magazine, accessed on September 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ War correspondent was available to answer questions from Der Westen, accessed on September 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f On your own under soldiers and pirates Chrismon.de, accessed on September 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Sylvia vom Hofe: War correspondent Ashwin Raman says goodbye to the front line In: Ruhr Nachrichten. April 13, 2019, accessed May 26, 2019.
  6. ^ Peck Award for Raman. In: Ruhr news. November 22, 2007, accessed September 2, 2013.
  7. ↑ Otto Brenner Prize Winner on the official website of the Otto Brenner Prize.
  8. ↑ Ashwin Raman . In: grimme-preis.de . Retrieved March 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Raman, Ashwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reporter and documentary filmmaker of Indian origin
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Mumbai