Christian Fuchs (journalist)
Christian Fuchs (* 1979 ) is a German journalist and author . He writes as a reporter for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .
Life
Fuchs studied media studies, psychology, and economic and social history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and was trained as an editor at the Henri Nannen School in Hamburg . Since 1998 he has been writing about society, media, economy, politics and urban culture - with a focus on East Germany. He published, among others, in the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung , in the weekly magazines Die Zeit and Der Spiegel as well as in its online news portal Spiegel Online . Reports and analyzes by him have also appeared in brand eins , Das Magazin , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , Zeit Magazin and Vanity Fair .
Fuchs is the author of the Spiegel bestseller The Network of the New Right (together with Paul Middelhoff). He wrote Secret War about Germany's role in the war on terror in the USA and, with Diezelle, published the first non-fiction book about the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU), both together with John Goetz . In 2012 he appeared in the TV documentary series Die neue Nazis , a co-production by Spiegel TV and ZDFinfo about the history and developments of modern right-wing extremism since the mid-1960s.
His book Secret War was decisive for the start of the play Game of Drones 2015 at the State Theater Mainz . In 2016, Fuchs won the slam “Storylight live” at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg with his contribution Game of Drones , in which journalists from everyday research slam. For a story about the right-wing extremist terror group NSU in the comic book Bruchlinien: Drei Episoden zum NSU (2019), Fuchs was an adviser.
honors and awards
- 2008: Winner research competition "Message - International Journal for Journalism"
- 2008: NEON research grant
- 2013: Winner of the CIVIS Media Prize
- 2014: Shortlist price for the freedom and future of the media
- 2014: Shortlist European Press Prize
- 2014: Nominated for the Grimme Prize
- 2014: Winner of the RIAS Prize
- 2014: Winner "Journalist of the Year"
- 2015: Winner of the Salus Media Prize
- 2015: Ernst Schneider Prize winner
- 2016: Shortlist German Journalist Award
- 2016: Shortlist Henri Nannen Prize
- 2018: Winner of the Lighthouse Prize for special journalistic achievement
- 2018: Winner of the German Reporter Award
- 2019: Winner "Journalist of the Year"
Publications (selection)
- Associate Editor: Trends in Political Communication. Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-82587-324-2 .
- It sneaks quietly through my TV. Product placement and surreptitious advertising on public television. Mensch und Buch, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89820-844-3 .
- Contribution in Gabriele Fischer, Peter Lau (Ed.): The human being - the smallest economic unit. Knesebeck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89660-529-0 .
- Article in Rudolf Speth (Ed.): Grassroots-Campaigning. SpringerVS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-16262-1 .
- Article in Daniel Häfner (Ed.): Group.Power.Protest . Berlin 2016.
- Contribution in Matthias Meisner / Heike Kleffner (eds.): Extreme security - right-wing extremists in the police, constitutional protection, armed forces and justice . Freiburg 2019.
- with John Goetz : The cell. Right-wing terror in Germany. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-02005-7 .
- with John Goetz: Secret War. How the fight against terrorism is controlled from Germany. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-02138-2 .
- with Paul Middelhoff: The Network of the New Right. Who controls them, who finances them and how they change society . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-63451-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Own website
- The cell at perlentaucher.de
- The cell at Rowohlt-Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Drone warfare and friendship, is that possible? . SWR2 Kultur Regional, November 27, 205. Memento from the Internet Archive of October 7, 2016
- ↑ Story Light - Research on stage - Reeperbahn Festival. In: Festival details. Archived from the original on October 7, 2016 ; accessed on October 7, 2016 .
- ^ Post from September 25, 2016. Storylight Facebook presence. Retrieved May 15, 2019
- ↑ Silence is a problem - not only in Zwickau . f-stop Leipzig, Festival for Photography, June 22, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2019.
- ^ Message Online ( Memento from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ NEON research grant 2008: The winners have been announced ( Memento from March 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Stern Online
- ↑ https://www.mediummagazin.de/die-journalisten-des-jahres-2013/
- ↑ The journalists of the year 2018 - medium magazin. Retrieved December 18, 2018 (German).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fuchs, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |