Cathrin Kahlweit

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Cathrin Kahlweit (2015)

Cathrin Kahlweit (born October 11, 1959 in Göttingen ) is a German journalist and publicist.

Education and career path

After graduating from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Göttingen, she studied political science and Russian, first at the University of Oregon , then in Tübingen and Göttingen, supplemented by a semester at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow . In 1985 she completed her studies with the state examination at the Georg-August University in Göttingen.

After completing a trainee program at Dresdner Bank, she completed a journalist training course at the Henri Nannen School in Hamburg .

In 1989 she joined the editorial team of the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) in Munich. From 1994 to 1999 she was the SZ correspondent in Frankfurt am Main . In 2007, she took over the management of the editorial team of the new political talk show Anne Will in Berlin , but returned to SZ just ten months, almost six months after the show started.

In 2012 she took over the SZ correspondent office in Vienna and reported on developments in Hungary and Ukraine. In 2014 she reported on the scenes of the war in Donbass . In comments, she accused the Russian side of being the aggressor in the conflict. She was therefore exposed to a “ shit storm ” in her own words .

Since 2017 she has been a correspondent for the United Kingdom and Ireland based in London . In June 2020 it was announced that she was moving back to Vienna and will be responsible for the south-east of the EU and also as a special correspondent for Eastern Europe.

family

Cathrin Kahlweit is the daughter of the physics professor and SPD politician Manfred Kahlweit . She is married to the author George Deffner and has three children.

Prizes and awards

  • 2006 Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize
  • 2009 Karl Buchrucker Prize

Books

  • Architects of upheaval: 85 politicians of the new Eastern Europe in portrait . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1993, ISBN 3100385020
  • Women's election: women politicians in Germany. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37459-X
  • with Renate Künast : Dreams are not enough for me: what has to happen now. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30199-5
  • with George Deffner: Puberty: when children become difficult and parents unbearable. Piper Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-27230-8
  • as publisher: women of the century: icons - idols - myths. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-42101-6
  • as editor: A man's dream: 30 confessions. Piper Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-04568-5

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography. Cathrin Kahlweit koerber-stiftung.de
  2. ↑ Kahlweit directs "Anne Will" Medium. Magazine for journalists , 7/2007, pp. 82–83.
  3. ↑ Editor-in-chief of Anne Will goes , spiegel.de , February 8, 2008.
  4. ↑ Crisis reporters in conversation with ProQuote: "It is an advantage to be a woman" , kress.de , May 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Russia is the warmonger, NATO was in a nursing home" , morgenpost.de , April 17, 2014.
  6. ↑ Shitstorm - And suddenly the whole world hates you , crew-united.com .
  7. ↑ “Everything reminds me of the unfinished Schubert” , tt.com , June 24, 2017.
  8. ↑ "SZ" -Korrespondentin Cathrin Kahlweit returns to Vienna - derStandard.at. Retrieved July 3, 2020 (Austrian German).
  9. ^ The Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize 2006
  10. ^ Karl Buchrucker Prize. Journalist award for contributions on social topics
personal data
SURNAME Bald, Cathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen