Dirk Laabs

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Dirk Laabs (* 1973 in Hamburg ) is a German author specializing in terrorism , an investigative journalist and filmmaker . He was honored for the documentary films The Strangers in Paradise - Why God's Warriors Kill and The Deutsche Bank Case - Descent of a Money House .

Life

Journalistic career

Laabs, from Hamburg, studied philosophy and political science and lived in Israel for two years . He started working as a reporter for the tabloid Hamburger Morgenpost in 1992 . According to biographical information, from 1995 to 1996 he was a freelancer for the television program DAS! and Extra 3 from Norddeutscher Rundfunk . Then he worked a. a. for the private broadcasters MTV and Sat.1 . From 1999 to 2001 he graduated from the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg.

From 2001 to 2003 he worked for the Los Angeles Times with a focus on terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . He was also an advisor on Islamist terrorism to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York . He gave interviews to several national and international broadcasters (including BBC Four and France 24 ). In the following years he worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , the Financial Times Deutschland , the Spiegel and the Stern .

He worked u. a. as a lecturer at the Henri Nannen School in Hamburg, where he lives today.

Activity as a documentary filmmaker

Laabs has been a director , screenwriter and producer of numerous documentaries and features since 2001 , producing for the public broadcasters Arte, ZDF , 3sat , NDR, SWR , BR , ARD and WDR . One of his essays was the basis for the documentary 2006 Hamburg Lectures by Romuald Karmakar . In 2007 he directed the documentary film Operation OPEC - Terrorist Attack in Vienna, which analyzes the political background to the OPEC hostage-taking , and in 2008 he and Karmakar co-authored the WDR radio play "Well stop grinning" - fragments of the Stammheim trial . Originally he was in charge of the development of the documentary Gold Rush - The Story of the Treuhand in 2012 , but then withdrew the director due to differences of opinion with the producer Thomas Kufus .

Political non-fiction author

Laabs is the author of several political non-fiction books . His first monograph, Deadly Errors. The failure of politics and secret services in the context of September 11th , which he published in 2003 together with Oliver Schröm , was described as an extraordinary research achievement despite the cautious response. The book The German Gold Rush. The true story of the Treuhand from 2012 was discussed in part in the economic history, which classified it as a successful, popular, sometimes polarizing work. Eckhard Jesse noted critically that it was not free from " conspiracy-theoretical elements". From April to August 2012, Laabs was represented with his volume in Manager Magazin 's bestseller list . In 2014, together with Stefan Aust , he published a work about the NSU that was widely reviewed in the media . The book was mainly perceived by large parts of the feature pages as a comprehensive and well-researched introductory chronicle . It is necessary, but in the opinion of some opinion makers it does not come close to Aust's work on the RAF ( The Baader-Meinhof Complex ). Laabs and Aust were on Homeland Security in June 2014 . The state and the series of murders of the NSU listed on the Spiegel bestseller list for non-fiction books.

In the course of the most recent book publication, he was invited to various readings and lectures. He was also called in as a podium guest by political parties and their foundations, such as Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Baden-Württemberg as well as the left-wing parliamentary group in the federal government and Hesse and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . Laabs and Aust were also conference participants of the “Right-Wing Extremism Commission” of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen under the leadership of Cem Özdemir and Gesine Agena .

Awards

Prices

  • 2004: Winner of the treatment competition for documentary films / documentaries (category documentation) of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation for The Strangers in Paradise - Why God's Warriors Kill
  • 2007: Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists (2nd Prize, Television Category) for Strangers in Paradise - Why Terrorists Kill
  • 2015: Winner of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism (Electronic Media Category) for the Deutsche Bank case
  • 2019: Winner of the Ernst Schneider Prize in the "Television: Big Business Broadcast" category for secret files Financial crisis - is the next crash of the century?

Prizes and grants

Nominations and shortlists

  • 2009: Nomination for the Grimme Prize (Series & Multi-Part Series) for Who's Afraid of America? Violence and grace
  • 2010: Nomination for the Juliane Bartel Media Prize for Rwanda's strong women
  • 2014: Shortlist for the NDR Culture Non-Fiction Book Prize for Heimatschutz - The State and the NSU Murder Series
  • 2016 Nomination TV Festival Monte-Carlo in the category Current Affairs Documentary "The Deutsche Bank Case"

Filmography (selection)

  • 2002: The sea as a supermarket? Written and directed by
  • 2002: Somewhere Down There - One Year 1st League Script, direction and production (with Julia Möhn)
  • 2003: Deadly Mistakes - How the Death Pilots Escaped the Secret Services Book, direction and production
  • 2004: The Hamburg Cell development and production
  • 2005: The great criminal cases ( The police murderer and gang leader Bernhard Kimmel ) Script and direction (with Roland May )
  • 2005: the story ( an almost perfect murder - who shot Marta Russo ? ) Written and directed
  • 2006: Schliemanns Erben ( The Secret of the Desert Kings ) Script and direction
  • 2006: The Strangers in Paradise - Why God's Warriors Kill Production, script and direction
  • 2006: Why Terrorists Kill - An Analysis Production, Script and Direction
  • 2007: Operation OPEC - Terrorist Attack in Vienna Script and direction
  • 2008: Disco Sucks, written and directed
  • 2008: Who's Afraid of America? Violence and Grace, script and direction
  • 2008: 24h Berlin - A Day in the Life episode directing
  • 2009: Rwanda's strong women, written and directed
  • 2013: Experiment Energiewende - Germany's lonely revolution Production and direction (with Michael Wech )
  • 2013: Europe - No thanks! England and the EU director
  • 2015: The Deutsche Bank case - the decline of a financial institution
  • 2016: The NSU Complex (3-part documentary, together with Stefan Aust )
  • 2019: Attack on Democracy: Was Brexit Bought?

Fonts (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Böick: D. Laabs: The German Gold Rush . H-Soz-u-Kult , May 29, 2012; Jörg Roesler : "Myth and Smoldering Wound" the Treuhandanstalt . Germany Archive (2012), 10.
  2. ↑ a b NDR Kultur Non-Fiction Book Prize for David Van Reybrouck . boersenblatt.net , November 13, 2012.
  3. ^ Filmography , Dirk Laabs website, accessed on November 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ Christian Böhme: “There is no such thing as a definitive understanding” . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , Issue 43, October 25, 2007.
  5. ↑ Thomas Riegler: In the crosshairs. Austria and Middle East Terrorism 1973 to 1985 (= contemporary history in context . Volume 3). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-672-6 , p. 12.
  6. ↑ Svea Bräunert: Soundscape Stammheim . In: Norman Ächtler, Carsten Gansel (Ed.): Iconography of Terror? Forms of aesthetic memory of terrorism in the Federal Republic 1978–2008 (= contributions to recent literary history . No. 273). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8253-5709-2 , pp. 199–221, here: p. 211.
  7. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek : Erna Schmidt, take over! . In: Die Welt , August 28, 2012, No. 201, p. 21; David Ensikat: VEB processing . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 30, 2012, No. 21438, p. 31.
  8. ↑ See Jochen Bittner : September 11th - facts and fictions . In: Die Zeit , September 11, 2003, No. 38.
  9. ↑ See Achim Engelberg : Appearance of the cynics . derfreitag.de , June 4, 2012; Stephan Hilsberg : The history of the trust and its perception . Deutschlandradio Kultur , May 13, 2012; Richard Schröder : Dirk Laabs, The German Gold Rush . In: Uwe Backes , Alexander Gallus , Eckhard Jesse (eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy , 25th year (2013), ISBN 978-3-8487-1034-8 , pp. 331–334.
  10. ↑ Cf. Rainer Karlsch : Dirk Laabs: The German Gold Rush. The real story of the trust . In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 100 (2013) 2, pp. 253–254; Marcus Böick: D. Laabs: The German gold rush . H-Soz-u-Kult , May 29, 2012; Jörg Roesler : "Myth and Smoldering Wound" the Treuhandanstalt . Germany Archive (2012), 10; Andreas Rödder : The slaughterhouse of the west? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 7, 2012.
  11. ↑ Eckhard Jesse : Main discussions: Despite good research on the NSU murders - many ambiguities remain . In: Uwe Backes , Alexander Gallus , Eckhard Jesse (Eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy , Volume 27 (2015), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2522-9 , pp. 309-311 , here: p. 309.
  12. ↑ See: Manager Magazin bestseller list of April 20, 2012, p. 124; May 25, 2012, June 22, 2012, p. 118; P. 116; July 20, 2012, p. 106; August 24, 2012, p. 112
  13. ↑ See Samuel Salzborn : Stefan Aust / Dirk Laabs: Heimatschutz. Munich: 2014 . Political Science Portal, July 17, 2014; Birgit Güll: The protection of the constitution and right-wing terror . In: Vorwärts , May 22, 2014; Winfried Dolderer: A captivating chronicle of right-wing terrorism . Deutschlandfunk , May 26, 2014; Georg Seeßlen : Right-wing Terror, Deep State . derfreitag.de , June 2, 2014; Ashot Manucharyan: In short . In: The Parliament , No. 27, June 30, 2014; Holger Schmidt:The failure of the authorities( Memento of December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). NDR Kultur , October 31, 2014; Toralf Staud :Extreme right. In: Die Zeit , July 3, 2014, No. 28, p. 44; Claus Christian Malzahn :What does the Office for the Protection of the Constitution know about the NSU?. In: Die Welt , May 22, 2014, No. 118, p. 8; Wolfgang Guest:NSU and official failure. In: taz , June 21, 2014, p. 27; Florian Sendtner: Heimatschützer, neo-Nazis, murderer . In: Bayerische Staatszeitung , June 13, 2014, p. 4; Frank Jansen : The accused state . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 28, 2014, No. 22058, p. 29; Nils Minkmar:Double Germany. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 17, 2014, No. 137, p. 9; Eckhard Jesse : Main discussions: Despite good research on the NSU murders - a lot of ambiguities remain . In: Uwe Backes , Alexander Gallus , Eckhard Jesse (Eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy , Volume 27 (2015), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2522-9 , pp. 309-311 .
  14. ↑ See: Spiegel bestseller list of June 2, 2014, p. 128; June 7, p. 129; June 16, p. 113.
  15. ↑ Documentary competition: All winners , br.de, accessed on May 30, 2014.
  16. ↑ Barbara Möller: Axel Springer Prize for young journalists . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 16, 2007, No. 113, p. 10.
  17. ↑ HB: Excellent economic reporting . handelsblatt.com, November 26, 2015.
  18. ↑ Norms Wohner: Ernst Schneider Prize 2019 awarded. October 10, 2019, accessed June 11, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Six new Gerd Ruge scholarship holders . In: Rheinische Post , August 20, 2009, No. 192.
  20. ^ Nominated Information and Culture 2009 ( Memento from March 26, 2012 on WebCite ), Grimme Prize, accessed on November 18, 2014.
  21. ^ Science, madness and world war . buchjournal.de , October 28, 2014.
  22. ^ Andreas Höfer (Red.): One-two. Soccer and film . Edited by the German Film Museum , Belleville Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-936298-44-0 , pp. 86, 136.
personal data
SURNAME Laabs, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich