Britta Petersen

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Britta Petersen (2011)

Britta Petersen (* 1966 ) is a German journalist , author and consultant based in New Delhi , India .

Live and act

She has been a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), an Indian think tank in Delhi, since 2014. Here she mainly works on the Indian-European relationship.

From 2010 to 2014 Petersen headed the Heinrich Böll Foundation's office in Pakistan. First in Lahore, from 2012 in Islamabad.

From 2006 to 2010 she was South Asia correspondent for the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) in Delhi. As a member of the Weltreporter.net correspondent network, she publishes a. a. in Internationale Politik (IP), Cicero, The Hindu, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the daily newspaper (taz), Die Zeit, Die Welt and The Wire.

From 2003 to 2006 she lived and worked in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she trained Afghan journalists as the founder and chairwoman of the Initiative Freie Presse (IFP) eV. She also worked as a media trainer and consultant until 2009. a. the Afghan Minister for Women Dr. Massouda Jalal works on behalf of GIZ in Afghanistan.

Petersen completed her journalistic apprenticeship at Axel Springer Verlag (Crew X). From 1998 to 2000 she was the business editor of Berliner Morgenpost and from 2000 to 2003 editor for South and Southeast Asia at the Financial Times Deutschland in Berlin.

She studied philosophy, political science and economics at the University of Hamburg and at the Free University of Berlin. u. a. with Herbert Schnädelbach. She earned her master's degree with a thesis on “Criticism as a way of life. Ethos and Enlightenment with Michel Foucault ”with Axel Honneth.

Their son Qalander was born in 2012.

Works

  • Where the gods live. Everyday life and religion in India . Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna: Herder Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-451-05717-5
  • Use in the Hindu Kush. Bundeswehr soldiers in Afghanistan . Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna: Herder Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-451-05628-3
  • Highlights India. The 50 Destinations You Should See . Munich: Bruckmann Verlag 2008 (with Johann Scheibner), ISBN 978-3-7654-4817-1

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Britta Petersen: Britta Petersen | ORF - Ideas. Forums. Leadership. Impact. In: ORF - Ideas. Forums. Leadership. Impact. Retrieved May 26, 2016 (American English).
  2. ↑ Britta Petersen. In: Heinrich Böll Foundation. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ | WELTREPORTER.NET. In: WELTREPORTER.NET. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Britta Petersen: Britta Petersen, publicist, New Delhi | torial. In: www.torial.com. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  5. ^ The German journalist Britta Petersen teaches her Afghan colleagues: "As was the case under King Amanullah". In: Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ - Radio most important medium in Afghanistan. In: Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  7. ↑ WORKSHOP PARLIAMENT JOURNALISM, events, Afghanistan office. In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig "Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media: Prize Winner 2005: Britta Petersen" Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 26, 2016 ; accessed on May 26, 2016 . 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 / www.leipziger-medienstiftung.de
  9. ↑ Super User: LIBERTY AWARD - Britta Petersen. In: www.liberty-award.de. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Jose Punnamparambil: Gisela Bonn Award 2009 for Britta Petersen. Recognition for committed journalism . In: My world. Journal of the German-Indian Dialogue . Issue 3 / Volume 26 / Winter 2009 p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Britta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966