Carsten Stormer

Carsten Stormer , (born 1973 in Pinneberg ) is a German journalist , author , photographer and filmmaker . His focus is on foreign, crisis and war reporting. He lives in Manila .

Life

Carsten Stormer completed an apprenticeship as a forwarding agent and later studied journalism in Bremen and at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Chennai (India). As he reports in his first book Das Leben ist ein Wildes Tier (2011), he actually wanted to become a captain, “which he rejected after six weeks as a boat boy because life on deck seemed too monotonous to him. He was also not a forwarding agent. He became a world traveler and a barman. ”The encounter with two girls seriously injured by an old land mine as a 24-year-old (1997) in Cambodia led him to opt for a career as a war correspondent. He completed his first internships as a journalist at the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia and at the Myanmar Times.

He is married and has a son who was born in 2014. Since 2008 he has been living as an Asia correspondent with his family in Manila.

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From 2004 Carsten Stormer reported from crisis areas in Darfur , Somalia , Congo , Afghanistan , Iraq , Uganda and East Timor . Since 2006 he has been a member of the Zeitenspiegel reporter community in Weinstadt -Endersbach. Since 2012 he has mainly reported on the war situation in Syria and Iraq for German and international news channels and magazines. In an interview with the industry portal meedia.de he spoke openly about a post-traumatic stress disorder as part of his everyday life as a war reporter from 2013, which resulted from his experiences in Syria and, among other things, a near-kidnapping on the way to Zabadani . He writes regularly for Der Spiegel , GEO , Focus , Stern , Cicero , Playboy , NZZ am Sonntag and other media. He has processed his experiences in Syria in several books, most recently in Die Schatten des Morgenlandes (2017). In recent years, his focus has shifted from writing to television reporting.

Nominations and Awards

• 2008 Kinderothilfe media award for the Focus report Die Mörderkinder
• 2009 German Red Cross Award
• 2011 finalist at the Leica Oskar Barnack Award
• 2012 nomination for the media prize of Kindernothilfe
• 2013 nomination for the German Reporter Award , category Best Independent Reporter
• 2013 nomination for the Frontline Club Award London
• 2014 nomination for the media prize of Kindernothilfe
• 2014 Longlist Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in the Best Report category
• 2015 nomination for the Liberty Award
• 2017 Shortlist Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for Best Report
• 2018 Third Prize at the Pictures of the Year Award of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia in the Documentary Journalism category for the film The Kill List (directors: Ed Ou and Aurora Almendral), Stormer contributed additional film material.
• 2018 nomination for the Liberty Award
• 2019 nomination for the German Reporter Award in the category Best Independent Reporter
• 2019 nomination together with Marc Wiese for the joint documentary War Diary in the category Best Information: Foreign Reporter for the German Television Award 2020

Publications

• 2011 Life is a wild animal: How I looked for danger and found myself . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne, ISBN 978-3785724408 .
• 2014 The Syrian Tragedy . 60pages. Kindle ebook.
  • 2016 in English: The Syrian Tragedy . 60pages.

• 2017 The shadows of the Orient. The violence in the Middle East and why we need to get involved . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne, ISBN 978-3785725931 .

Movies

• 2012 together with Carl Gierstorfer: Myanmar: Living Freedom , Arte , 28 min.
• 2012 A leppo: A city at war for Spiegel TV
• 2014 The White Helmets , Al Jazeera America
• 2015 Inside Sinjar , Al Jazeera America
• 2016 manhunt in Manila for Spiegel TV
• 2017 Hell on Earth - The rise of ISIS and the fall of Syria , National Geographic
• 2017 When a president says 'I'll kill you' , New York Times Documentaries
• 2017 The holy water of the Yazidis , Arte / ZDF, 32 min.
• 2017 Schools in Afghanistan - a successful German model on the verge of collapse , Arte / ZDF, 32 min.
• 2018 Manuel Down Under , 5-part series, Arte / ZDF
• 2018 A childhood in Greenland , Arte / ZDF, 32 min.
• 2018 together with Marc Wiese: War Diary - War Diary . IFAGE / Arte / WDR , 103 min.
• 2019 return to Masuria. 74 years after the escape . Together with Florian Wolff. Arte / ZDF, 32 min.
• 2019 Search for meaning in Siberia - Jesus from the taiga and his disciples , Arte / ZDF, 32 min.
• 2019 The dead of Stalingrad - In search of fallen soldiers , Arte / ZDF, 32 min.

Web links

• Carsten Stormer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Youtube channel
• stern.de video interview with Carsten Stormer

credentials

1. ↑ Carsten Stormer | Photographers | Asia Motion. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hendrik Steinkuhl: Foreign correspondent Carsten Stormer: “War reporters are somewhat frowned upon in German journalism”. In: meedia.de. August 2, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 
3. ^ Stephan Hörhammer: Reporter Carsten Stormer: Life under President Duterte. In: hogn.de. March 20, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Carsten Stormer: The shadows of the Orient. The violence in the Middle East and why we need to get involved . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7857-2593-1 , p. 25 .
5. ↑ Jan Söfjer: The man who looks into the abyss. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 13, 2012, accessed November 20, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Go Pro Portfolio. Carsten Stormer. In: Digital Photographer Philippines (DPP). Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 
7. ^ Carsten Stormer - Authors: Zeitenspiegel Reportagen. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Carsten Stormer | Author. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 
9. ^ Filipino Photojournalists on Working in a Post-Truth World. In: esquiremag.ph (Esquire Philippines). May 30, 2017, accessed November 20, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Kindernothilfe press release Sascha Decker: Child pornography in Second Life and the death penalty in China: Kindernothilfe honors five journalists on the subject of children's rights violations. In: presseportal.de. November 14, 2008, accessed April 13, 2020 . 
11. ^ Carsten Stormer - Acid Survivors. In: lfi-online.de - Special Edition Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2011. LFI Photography, accessed on April 12, 2020 (English). 
12. ↑ POYI 75 Winners: Category Documentary Journalism - Third Place. In: poy.org. Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, accessed April 12, 2020 . 
13. ↑ The German Television Award : 2019 Best Information: Foreign Reporter. In: Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2020. Retrieved on November 20, 2019 (German).