Claus Christian Malzahn
Claus Christian Malzahn (* 1963 in Göttingen ) is a German journalist and since April 2010 deputy head of politics at the “ Welt ” group of the Axel Springer publishing house .
Life
Malzahn grew up as a child of GDR refugees. After graduating from high school in 1984, he did an internship at the North German Press Agency . In 1986 he was one of the founders of the local section of the daily newspaper (taz) in Bremen . In 1987 he moved to the taz headquarters in Berlin as a reporter .
From 1993 Malzahn worked as a correspondent for the Spiegel in Erfurt , Berlin , Bonn and Warsaw . Between 1999 and 2004 he reported as a crisis reporter from Kosovo , Afghanistan , Somalia and as an embedded journalist from Iraq . From May 2004, Malzahn was head of the politics department at Spiegel Online and the Berlin office of Spiegel Online.
In the 2005 election year he positioned himself through articles in Spiegel Online as a critic of the 68ers and the red-green government, he campaigned for a CDU government under Angela Merkel and a political rapprochement with the USA under George W. Bush .
As an author, Claus Christian Malzahn has published, among other things, the volume of reports The Signature of War and a history of the divided nation under the title Deutschland, Deutschland . Most recently, he criticized the German population's fear of the USA, which he believed was exaggerated, because in an opinion poll 57% of Germans between the ages of 18 and 29 saw US politics as a greater threat to peace than Iran. Malzahn recommended a new re-education of the German people. In 2010, Malzahn advocated the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange .
In his new book Germany 2.0 he discusses the mistakes, problems and successes of the unification process.
Works
- Germany Germany. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89331-660-4
- About walls or why life in the shadow of the protective wall was a sunny thing. wjs, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937989-54-9
- Germany 2.0. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24798-6
- Whoever wages war should also say war . In: Spiegel Online, February 7, 2007; Malzahn on the Afghanistan debate
literature
- Marko Martin: Scenes of war - Claus Christian Malzahn knows his time . In: Die Welt , July 23, 2005
Web links
- Literature by and about Claus Christian Malzahn in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sonja Pohlmann: Interchanges: Departure of the alpha animals . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 20, 2010
- ↑ Bad Americans, poor mullahs . In: Spiegel Online, March 28, 2007
- ↑ Claus Christian Malzahn: The arrest brings Assange back to reality. Welt-Online, December 8, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malzahn, Claus Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |