Florian Hassel

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Florian Hassel (born April 3, 1964 in Bergneustadt ) is a German journalist.

Life

Hassel began his journalistic career after high school and community service as a freelancer for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . From 1986 to 1992 he studied German and American history as well as German literature at the University of Cologne . From 1988 he worked for Die Zeit (magazine, business editor , modern life) and from autumn 1989 at Stern . From November 1992 to September 1993, after completing his master's degree, he worked as a freelancer in the Stern's international editorial team in Hamburg and New York. In 1993 he became the foreign editor of the Austrian news magazine profil . In 1996 he went to Moscow as a freelance journalist. From 1998 to 2008 he was Moscow correspondent for the Frankfurter Rundschau and other daily newspapers. From 2009 to 2012 he was a reporter in the economic department of the daily newspaper Die Welt based in Berlin. From January 2013 he was a Balkan correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung based in Belgrade . Since April 2015 he has been the Eastern European correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung based in Warsaw. In May 2003 he and Tomas Avenarius received the second prize of the Guardian Prize of the daily press for a report series from Chechnya . In 2011 he received the Ernst Schneider Prize for Business Journalism for a series about the Greek crisis in Welt am Sonntag .

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