Carsten Germis

Carsten Germis (born April 20, 1959 in Hanover ) is a German journalist .

Germis graduated from high school in 1978. He completed an editorial traineeship at the Goslarschen Zeitung and studied political and administrative sciences at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg and the University of Hamburg from 1982 to 1986 . He was the political correspondent of the German dispatch service in Bonn and Hamburg , political editor for the Lübecker Nachrichten and, after the fall of the Wall, editor of the Märkische Oderzeitung as well as for the Ministry of Social Affairs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In 1991 he switched to the Tagesspiegel , for which he worked, among other things, as deputy head of the news department; from 1997 he was a member of the parliamentary editorial team. From January 1, 2001, he worked for Die Welt as deputy head of the parliamentary editorial office. In November 2001 he became the Berlin correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .

During the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011, he reported from Japan as a correspondent for the newspaper, then left the country and continued reporting from South Korea for a while. Even after the earthquake, he continued to report from the disaster area. He processed his experiences in Japan in his crime novel Sayonara, Bulle , published by Rowohlt in 2015 . The association of German-language detective novel writers, Syndikat , nominated the book for the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2016 in the debut novel category.

Germis has lived in Hamburg since 2015 and reports on economic topics from there.

Works

• Parliamentary committees of inquiry and political scandal. Shown using the example of the German Bundestag . Hague and Herchen. Frankfurt am Main 1988 ISBN 3-89228-271-4
• Sayonara, Bulle , rororo 2015, Reinbek near Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-499-26906-6

Web links

• Biography at faz.net
• Biography with the world
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Individual evidence

1. ^ Last contact three days ago , telephone interview from March 16, 2011
2. ↑ Japan's fishermen are looking for ways out of the accident in: FAZ from December 19, 2011, page 13
3. ↑ Entry in the German National Library  ( 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.