Boris Barschow

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Boris Barschow (born August 30, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , reporter and editor . He became known through his educational activities about the Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan and about the country itself, where he was editor-in-chief of the Sada-e Azadi Newspaper .

Life and career

Boris Barschow grew up in Berlin and graduated from high school there in 1987. He then attended the German School of Journalism in Munich from 1987 to 1989 , where he completed the 26th teaching editorial team. In 1990 he began studying political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1989 to 1994 he worked as a reporter for Bayerischer Rundfunk and reported for the radio programs Bayern 3 and B5 aktuell .

Barschow has been working for ZDF since 1994 , where his career positions include: 1994–1998 as a reporter at the ZDF regional studio in Bavaria in Unterföhring ; 1998–2000 reporter at the ZDF regional studio Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel (including reports on Scandinavia and the Baltic States ); 2000–2001 reporter and final editor at the ZDF tabloid magazine hallo deutschland ; 2001–2009 reporter and editor with a focus on security policy for the ZDF news magazine heute-journal . Since 2009 Barschow has been Head of Service (CvD) at the public television broadcaster Phoenix , which is operated in cooperation with ZDF and ARD .

Barschow, who did not have to do military service as a result of his previous stay in Berlin , first came into contact with the Bundeswehr in 1999 while filming a ZDF film about German tornado fighter planes . As a result, he completed an " orientation exercise for journalists", became more and more interested in this world and after several courses in the Bundeswehr became major in the reserve , which was possible due to his civilian qualifications as a journalist. Since then, he is next to his job as press staff officer of the reserve in the German air force operates.

He was or is volunteer with the aid organization Aviation Without Borders , the minstrel and fanfare parade of the Mainzer Ranzengarde and the CASH - Childrens Art Soldiers Help campaign , an aid project to provide financial support to schools in Afghanistan.

Boris Barschow lives in Bonn .

Special activities

Since 2007 Boris Barschow has been involved in providing information about Afghanistan and providing information about the German Bundeswehr's operations there. Since he otherwise saw little chance of arriving as a reporter on site, he volunteered as a major in the reserve for three months of military exercises that he had carried out in Afghanistan. In 2007 and 2008 he was in each case in the headquarters of ISAF (ISAF HQ) in Kabul as editor in chief of NATO newspaper Sada-e Azadi Newspaper ( dt. Voice of Freedom ) operates the fortnightly and a circulation of 390,000 copies has. Barschow worked closely with local journalists to create the newspaper, which appears in Darish (“Persian”), English and Pashtun . In 2009, as part of his third military exercise in Afghanistan, he worked for four months as an intercultural operational advisor on the staff of the Regional Command North (RC N) at Camp Marmal in Mazar-e Sharif .

Barschow has been running a blog about Afghanistan on the Internet since 2007 , the so-called Afghanistan blog , in which he provides information about the deployment of the German armed forces in Afghanistan as well as the "country on the Hindu Kush" itself, its inhabitants and the problems there. Since 2010 he has also published the ongoing report Dem Volk auf's Maul on his blog , for which he tours Germany on a motorcycle and spontaneously asks passers-by about their opinion on the Bundeswehr's mission in Afghanistan.

In 2007 the Lüneburg Vive! Publishing house published his book Kabul, I come again , in which he reports on his experiences and insights in Afghanistan as a diary and openly deals with the Bundeswehr mission there and the country and people. The "honest [...] and exciting [...] book" met with a positive reception from critics and interest from the public and is now available in its second edition. A "Letter to the Germans", which Barschow received from an Afghan jewelry dealer during his first mission in Afghanistan and which was printed in his first work, was included in Hellmuth Karasek's book Letters Moving the World and processed.

Awards

Publications (selection)

Television documentaries

  • 1997: Everything Picasso - or what? (ZDF)
  • 2001: Finland, a high-tech country . ( 3sat )
  • 2003: Shots at sea - German Navy in the Horn of Africa . (ZDF / ZDF.reporter )
  • 2005: The Forgotten Children of Kashmir. Part 1 . (Phoenix)
  • 2006: The Forgotten Children of Kashmir. Part 2 . (Phoenix)

Blog and online articles

  • Afghanistan Blog ( Online )
  • Ongoing report Watching the people's mouths on the Afghanistan blog ( online )
  • Afghanistan debate at the chip shop . Published on Zeit Online on September 9, 2010 ( Online )
  • About history and patriotism - seen the people through their mouths . Published by the International Magazine for Security (IMS) on September 9, 2010 ( online )

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information about Boris Barschow from the media service kressreport . (Retrieved September 24, 2010.)
  2. ↑ Reinhard Breidenbach: "Are you going to Afghanistan with me?" ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Allgemeine Zeitung of September 27, 2007. (Accessed September 24, 2010; PDF file .; 1.5 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boris-barschow.de
  3. ↑ Annette Zoch: The Enlightenment. A journalist works in a German army uniform in Afghanistan ( memento of the original from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Abendzeitung, September 3, 2007, p. 3. (Accessed September 24, 2010; PDF file .; 2.2 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boris-barschow.de
  4. ↑ Cf. Boris Barschow: Afghanistan debate at the chip shop . Published on Zeit Online on September 9, 2010. (Retrieved September 24, 2010.)
  5. ↑ Book publication: Boris Barschow: Kabul, I'll be back  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release from Vive! Verlag, Lüneburg, from September 3, 2007 on PresseEcho.de. (Retrieved September 24, 2010.)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.presseecho.de  
  6. ↑ See Wolfgang Reineke: Barschow: News about Afghanistan . Reviewed January 30, 2008 by the PR-Journal. (Retrieved September 24, 2010.)
  7. ↑ Hellmuth Karasek: Letters move the world . TeNeues publishing group, Kempen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8327-9415-6 . (To be released October 2010.)
  8. ↑ See winner: Goldener Igel . At: Reservists Association . (Retrieved September 24, 2010.)
  9. ↑ Winner: Goldener Igel →  2003 . On: Journalistenpreise.de. (Retrieved August 21, 2012.)
personal data
SURNAME Barschow, Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, reporter and editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg