Erich Rathfelder
Erich Rathfelder (born March 30, 1947 ) is a German journalist and author . He is the author of several books on the history of the Balkans, Bosnia and Kosovo.
Life
Rathfelder studied history, political science and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Free University of Berlin from 1968 to 1975 . He worked for the Berlin daily taz since 1983 . There he was initially a Western European editor, in 1985 he became an Eastern European editor and was therefore also responsible for the Balkans and former Yugoslavia. After the entry ban into the GDR and other non-reform states of the Warsaw Pact such as Romania, Bulgaria and what was then Czechoslovakia in 1987, he worked regularly as a reporter in the Balkans. At the end of the eighties he visited Yugoslavia several times as a Taz reporter, especially Serbia and Kosovo, Slovenia and Croatia. Since June 25, 1991 he has been reporting on the wars in Slovenia and Croatia, since 1992 he has remained as a freelance journalist in the former Yugoslavia and reported on the Bosnian war for over three years. In 1997 he reported continuously from Kosovo, but was declared an undesirable person by the Serbian government in June 1998 and expelled from Serbia and thus from Kosovo. The entry ban was only lifted after the NATO war in Kosovo. Since then he has lived as a freelance journalist in Sarajevo and Split.
Publications (selection)
- Erich Rathfelder, Anna Stein, Klaus Vogel: "All or none!" Comisiones Obreras, new labor movement in Spain , Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag 1976, (Series: Rotbuch No. 153), ISBN 3-88022-153-7 .
- (Ed.): War in the Balkans: The European Responsibility , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1992, series: rororo aktuell 13279, ISBN 3-499-13279-6 .
- Sarajevo and afterwards: six years reporter in the former Yugoslavia , with an afterword by Hans Koschnick, Munich: Beck 1998, Beck'sche Reihe No. 1244, ISBN 3-406-42044-3 .
- Intersection Sarajevo: Bosnia and Herzegovina ten years after Dayton: Muslims, Orthodox, Catholics and Jews are building a common state , Berlin: Schiler 2006, ISBN 3-89930-108-0 , Bosnian edition 2007.
- with Carl Bethke (ed.): Bosnia in focus: The second political challenge of Christian Schwarz-Schilling , Berlin; Tübingen: Schiler 2010, ISBN 978-3-89930-266-0 .
- Kosovo: History of a Conflict , Berlin: Suhrkamp 2010, (Series: Edition Suhrkamp No. 2574), ISBN 978-3-518-12574-8 .
literature
- Simone Richter, journalist between the fronts. War reporting using the example of Yugoslavia , 1999, ISBN 3-531-13423-X , pp. 123–125
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Rathfelder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Site of the Suhrkamp publishing house about Rathfelder
- Review of the book Schnittpunkt Sarajevo on dradio.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Richter, Journalisten Between the Fronts , p. 123
- ↑ see http://www.presseurop.eu/de/content/author/139661-erich-rathfelder
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rathfelder, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1947 |