Bettina Rühl

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Bettina Rühl (born August 28, 1965 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German journalist . Rühl received several radio awards for its radio features about the political and social inner life of Africa . In 2020 she received the Federal Cross of Merit for all of her work in Africa .

Bettina Rühl, 2014

Life

Bettina Rühl went to school at the Büttgen high school, studied art history, history and German studies in Cologne from 1985 and journalism at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1994 . During her studies, from 1988, she began traveling to Africa, from where she posted reports for several ARD radio stations and Deutschlandfunk .

In 1996/97 she taught "Communication of cultural information in radio" at the Technical University of Darmstadt , and in 1997/98 at the University of Cologne "Journalism for Ethnologists". In 1992 she spent three months in Ivory Coast , in 2004/05 she taught radio journalism in Mali , in 2012 in Congo on behalf of the Evangelical Development Service on "Journalistic Ethics" and in Cameroon on "Civil Society and Media Work".

Bettina Rühl has been a freelance Africa correspondent since April 2011 . She writes for print media and radio stations and represents the ARD East Africa correspondent in Nairobi . Rühl's central content is the situations in crumbling states like Somalia and the Congo, war and conflict situations, trading conditions between North and South, illegal migration from Africa to Europe and development aid projects for migrants themselves.

Awards

Radio features

  • The real veil is silence. Women in Morocco. SWR 1993
  • Life versus fear. Women in Algeria. SWR 1996
  • We are a lost generation. Childhood and youth in Algeria. SWR / WDR 1998
  • War against citizens. The Geneva Conventions turn 50th SWR / WDR in 1999
  • From the deadly seriousness of the supposed game. Child soldiers in Sierra Leone. DLF / ORB / NDR 2000
  • Mission Impossible? War and Peace in Kosovo. WDR / DLF 2000
  • Two worlds, two times. Somali refugees and their helpers. WDR / DLF 2001
  • We all live like displaced people. Stories of survival in the Congo. WDR / SWR 2001
  • Somalia - On survival in a broken state. SWR / SR 2002
  • In the shadow of the past. France and the political culture in Algeria. WDR 2002
  • The combine harvester of God. Reinhard Bonnke in Nigeria. DLF / ORF 2003
  • Fuel for war. Stories from Oil in Nigeria. DLF / SWR 2005
  • After the end. On-site visit to Belet Huen in Somalia. DLF / BR / WDR 2005
  • Behind Timbuktu. A search for traces of Al Qaeda. SWR / WDR 2006
  • Quicksand. A game with hostages in the desert. DLF 2007
  • Reports from Mogadishu. The independent radio station Horn Africa. DLF 2008
  • The black men and the sea. From African refugees and European fishermen. SWR / DLF 2008
  • From chickens and traders. Stories from the global poultry industry. BR 2009
  • Construction south. Jean-Claude Kibala from Troisdorf in the Congo. WDR 2010
  • Foreign home. About the longing for Africa and the suffering in Europe. SWR 2010
  • The "clean" solution. From Niger and German nuclear power plants. WDR / DLF 2010
  • The power of the Mogadishu warlords. ARD radio feature March 2011, editorial team WDR
  • The leader. ARD radio feature March 2012, editorial team WDR
  • 2014: Dadaab - Anatomy of a storage company in Kenya (Feature - DLF)

literature

  • We only have the choice between madness or resistance. Women in Algeria. Horlemann-Verlag, Bad Honnef, 1997
  • Obstetrician chance. The creatures of Prometheus in contemporary art. In: Drux, Rudolf (ed.): The creatures of Prometheus - The artificial man from antiquity to the present. Bielefeld, 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Order of Merit for WDR author , wdr.de from July 23, 2020, accessed August 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Stefan Fischer: Africa, speak . In: sueddeutsche.de . January 17, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 18, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Der Anführer Download at ARD-Radiofeature ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.ard.de
personal data
SURNAME Rühl, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe