Flemming Rose

Flemming Rose (2015)

Flemming Rose (born March 11, 1958 ) is a Danish journalist , author and translator of Russian novels and non-fiction books who works for the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten . Rose gained international fame in connection with the publication of the Mohammed cartoons in Jyllands-Posten.

Life

Rose grew up with his two siblings in Copenhagen . His father left the family when Rose was a little boy. The family was at times homeless. He studied Russian language and literature at the University of Copenhagen . Rose worked as a translator for Soviet refugees in Denmark. Since the early 1980s, Rose worked as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. From 1990 to 1996 he worked as a Moscow correspondent and from 1996 to 1999 as a Washington correspondent for the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende . In 1999 Rose moved to Jyllands-Posten, for which he initially worked as a Moscow correspondent. From 2004 to 2010, Rose was responsible for the culture department at Jyllands-Posten, and from 2010 for the international department. Rose is married to a Russian woman.

Act

Until the publication of the Mohammed cartoons , Rose's journalistic work was largely determined by his preoccupation with the Soviet Union and Russia.

As head of culture at Jyllands-Posten, Rose commissioned the Mohammed cartoons, which were published in the newspaper on September 30, 2005. Rose wanted to take a stand against a perceived self-censorship in connection with Islam-related issues. The publication of the cartoons sparked a serious political crisis. Rose received numerous death threats as the editor-in-chief. He has been under police protection since then.

Since the so-called "Mohammed Crisis" in Denmark, Rose has been increasingly concerned with issues such as freedom of expression and freedom of the press , self-censorship and Islam . Rose advocates a very extensive freedom of expression based on the US model, combined with criticism of certain restrictions on freedom of expression in many European countries. According to Tøger Seidenfaden , the former editor-in-chief of the Copenhagen daily Politiken , Rose has found the theme of his life here.

Following the "Mohammed Crisis", Rose took a long trip to the USA, where he interviewed Francis Fukuyama , Bill Kristol , Richard Perle and Bernard Lewis , among others . The interviews were u. a. published in the New York Times and Jyllands-Posten. Following the trip, Rose summarized the material in the 2006 book Amerikanske stemmer ("American Voices").

In 2010 Tavshedens Tyranni ("Tyranny of Silence") appeared. The book was widely received in Denmark and attracted attention abroad. Tøger Seidenfaden called the work a “large and committed book about the Mohammed crisis”, but did not spare criticism of certain premises and content. The book was nominated for the prestigious Cavling Prize.

Honors

• 2007: Sappho Prize from the Danish Trykkefrihedsselskab (Society for Press Freedom)
• 2007: Laust Jensen Prize, donated by the former editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, Laust Jensen
• 2016: "Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty" of the American Cato Institute , endowed with 250,000 US $
• 2016: Weekendavisens litteraturpris for De besatte

Books (selection)

• Katastrofen der Udeblev , Gyldendal 1998, ISBN 8700289280 .
• Amerikanske stemmer , Jyllands-Postens Forlag 2006, ISBN 87-91389-86-0 .
• Tavshedens Tyranni , Jyllands-Postens Forlag 2010, ISBN 9788776921491 .

Translations from Russian

• Viktor Petrovich Astafjew : Den sørgmodige detective , 1987, ISBN 978-87-7456-306-8 . (German: The Sad Detective )
• Anatoli Naumowitsch Rybakow : Børn af Arbat , 1987, ISBN 87-00-72952-3 . (German: The children of Arbat ).
• Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow : Perestrojka, nytænkning i russisk politik , 1987 (next to Bent Jensen and others).
• Anmartin Broide: 3 times to the Chamber of Stalin: min barndom and ungdom i Rusland 1936-54 , 1988, ISBN 87-7456-320-3 .
• Boris Nikolajewitsch Yeltsin : Mod strømmen , 1990, ISBN 87-570-1409-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tommy Vigsø Grøn: JP's Flemming Rose skifter job. In: Politiken , October 22, 2010 (Danish).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Tøger Seidenfaden: Manden, who fik en sag for livet. In: Politiken , 30 September 2010 (Danish).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hannes Stein : Creator of the Mohammed caricatures lives in fear. In: WeltN24 , November 21, 2010.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Cavna: New 'Tyranny of Silence' book: Danish 'Cartoon Crisis' editor weighs what he'd change - and what he would not. In: The Washington Post , November 14, 2014.
5. ↑ Jacob Brejnebøl Knudsen of concurrent hylder Flemming Rose. In: finans.dk , November 12, 2010 (Danish).
6. ^ Lars Ole Knippel: Journalistpris til Flemming Rose. In: Jyllands-Posten , March 27, 2007 (Danish).
7. ↑ Hæderspris til Flemming Rose. ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Jyllands-Posten , August 28, 2007 (Danish).  
8. ↑ Flemming Rose vinder amerikansk frihedspris. In: Kristeligt Dagblad , May 11, 2016 (Danish).