Christoph Reuter (journalist)

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Christoph Reuter (born January 14, 1968 in Sande ) is a German journalist and war correspondent .

Life

Christoph Reuter works as a reporter for Spiegel . He graduated from high school and completed his studies in Islamic studies , political science and German with a master's degree from the University of Hamburg . He reported for GEO , Stern and Die Zeit from the Islamic world between Morocco and Kyrgyzstan , with a focus on the Middle East and Afghanistan . For this he received the Axel Springer Prize in 1997 . In 2002 he published his book on suicide bombers, My Life Is A Gun . It was published in English in 2004 ( Princeton University Press ) and was rated by the Washington Post as a foundational work on the subject. It has been translated into a further seven languages, including Italian, Swedish and Polish. In 2004 Christoph Reuter published the book Café Bagdad together with Susanne Fischer . The immense everyday life in the new Iraq . In Iraq , his travels took him from the mountain valleys of Kurdistan via the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf to the palm forests and swamps in the south. Reuter is fluent in Arabic.

On July 25, 2007, some news agencies erroneously reported that Christoph Reuter had been kidnapped in Afghanistan. In fact, it was the Danish journalist of Afghan descent Nagieb Kahja. He was released after a few hours.

From December 2009 to March 2010 he researched together with Marcel Mettelsiefen in Kunduz. The result was the publication Kunduz, September 4, 2009. A search for clues , followed from April to June 2010, together with Mettelsiefen, by an exhibition in the Kunstraum Potsdam with photos of the victims of the air raid on Kundus initiated by the German armed forces in 2009 .

In 2011 he switched from star to mirror . In 2012 he was named "Reporter of the Year" by Medium Magazin for his reports from the Syrian civil war. In an illegal border crossing from Syria into Turkey , he was arrested in 2015 and then from Turkey reported . In 2015, Reuter received the Prix ​​Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre . His publication The Strategist of Terror about the IS mastermind Haji Bakr, who was shot in 2014, was awarded . In April 2015 his book The Black Power: The »Islamic State« and the Strategists of Terror was published , for which he was awarded the NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis in November . Also in 2015 he received the "Prize of the Federal Press Conference ".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint . In: spiegelgruppe.de . The mirror . Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spiegelgruppe.de
  2. ↑ Kunduz, September 4, 2009: a search for traces / photo gr. Marcel Mettelsiefen. Text by Christoph Reuter, Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8077-1063-1
  3. ↑ message . In: deutschlandradiokultur.de . Germany radio . Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ message . In: mediummagazin.de . Medium magazine . Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Frank Nordhausen: German journalists arrested , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 9, 2015, p. 38
  6. ↑ The Strategist of Terror , in: Der Spiegel , Issue 17, 2015
  7. ↑ Rearview mirror: Excellent , in: Der Spiegel , Issue 43, 2015, p. 146
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Sands