Dietmar Schumann

Dietmar Schumann (born March 17, 1951 in Wengelsdorf , Saxony-Anhalt ) is a German journalist and foreign correspondent .

Life

After graduating from the Weissenfelser Goethe-Gymnasium in 1969, he completed a traineeship at DFF Berlin. From 1970 to 1974 Schumann studied at the journalism section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and in Moscow. After completing his studies, he first worked as an editor in the foreign policy magazine of the DFF Lens and in the news program Current Camera . From 1977 on, Schumann went to Moscow as the DFF foreign correspondent . Seven years later he became head of the DFF studio in Budapest and was responsible for reporting from Hungary , Austria and Yugoslavia . From October 1990 he worked as an editor and reporter in the ZDF magazine registration D . Since August 1998 he has been a foreign correspondent at the ZDF studio in Moscow. In October 2003 Schumann moved from Moscow to Tel Aviv and took over the management of the ZDF studio in Tel Aviv.

Schumann has been a reporter from crisis areas for many years. He was in Chechnya during the civil war ; When it came to the overthrow of the Taliban , he was one of the first television reporters to go to northern Afghanistan and Kabul. In 2008 he was deployed in Georgia during the war in South Ossetia . Also during the Indus flood in Pakistan, after the Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 and the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya.

2004 ordered ZDF Schumann from his post as a foreign correspondent in Israel back as records finds hindeuteten fact that he followed Schumann during his correspondent work for the East German television in Hungary and Moscow under the code name "Basket" as unofficial collaborator with working acts of Stasi been performed be. Schumann denied having worked for the Stasi. Since then, Schumann has been working as an author for foreign policy reports on ZDF. In the last few years u. a. Documentaries from the Arctic (Franz-Josef-Land, Spitzbergen), Russia, the countries bordering the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean and the Caucasus. Schumann has been part of the ZDFzeit editorial team since September 1, 2011 .

At the end of 2015, the Russian state media Rossija 1 and RT-deutsch accused Schumann of manipulating the documentation "Machtmensch Putin". Offer money to the alleged witness Yuriy Labyskin to play a Russian army man named "Igor" in Donbass in the film . This was intended to prove that regular Russian units were in eastern Ukraine . Contrary to the representation in the film, Labyskin describes the story in retrospect as fictitious. “Basically, I just lied and told me what he told me. He said I would get the money after the interview, ” claims Labyskin, referring to producer and filmmaker Valery Bobkow, who worked on the documentary with Schumann. In a reply, the ZDF described the allegations as baseless. Schumann rejected the accusation of manipulation "very clearly". The editorial staff had checked the original recordings and the interview and had no reason to " doubt the statement made by Mr. Labyskin" , announced the ZDF. He “told his story convincingly”, answered questions in detail and did not give the impression of “reproducing what he had learned by heart”. His behavior was "very different from his appearance on Russian television" .