Frank Nordhausen

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Frank Nordhausen, portrait, 2017

Frank Nordhausen (born June 5, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and book author. He lives and works as a freelance foreign correspondent in Nicosia , Cyprus .

Life

Nordhausen studied philosophy, history and German at the Free University of Berlin . After completing his studies in 1986, he worked as a freelance journalist, a. a. for Die Zeit , Stern , Der Spiegel , Woche , Wochenpost and taz . From 1996 to 2011 he was editor and reporter for the Berliner Zeitung in the section "Page 3" and reported from Kosovo , Turkey , Romania , Egypt , Syria and Iraq .

From 2000 he also wrote biographies about politics and everyday life in the Balkans, the Middle East, the Amazon and New Guinea. From 2009 he reported as a reporter from Cairo on the Arab Revolution, from 2011 as a permanent foreign correspondent in Istanbul for the Berliner Zeitung , the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . From 2011 to 2019 he wrote the weblog "Greetings from the Bosporus". Nordhausen had to leave Turkey in 2017. Since then he has lived in Nicosia and reports as a freelance foreign correspondent for German and English-language media on the eastern Mediterranean, including for the Turkish-exile online editorial team ahvalnews.com .

He became known in 1991 through his research on the Scientology organization and its activities in East Germany. In 1993 his book The Sect Group was published. Scientology on the advance (with Liane von Billerbeck ). In 2012, ARTE and in the first broadcast the documentary he and Markus Thöß made, The Scientology Spy - The Sect Secret Service OSA .

Since studying German, Nordhausen has been researching the life and work of the mysterious writer B. Traven . Nordhausen was a co-founder and first chairman of the International B. Traven Society. He has published scientific articles about B. Traven, including the writer's origins. An analysis of the dialect coloring of Traven on original tape recordings from Mexico, which had been discovered in 1999, found Nordhausen to be able to prove that Traven came from northern Germany, while other researchers believe that B. Traven was the son of a brickmaker who grew up in eastern Germany.

Nordhausen is the grandson of the Berlin journalist and writer Richard Nordhausen .

Monographs (selection)

  • with Liane von Billerbeck: The sect group. Scientology on the advance , Ch. Links, Berlin, 1st edition 1993, 4th edition 1995, ISBN 3-86153-0511
  • with Liane von Billerbeck: Satans children. The murder case Sandro B. , Ch. Links, Berlin 1st edition 1994, revised and T. Satanskinder. The Sondershausen Murder Case and the Right Scene , 2001, ISBN 978-3861-5323-23
  • with Bardhyl Hoti: Escape. Diary of a survivor from Kosovo , Ch. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-219-0
  • with Steven Kuhn: Soldier in the Gulf War. From fighters to doubts , Ch. Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-299-9
  • with Roland Garve : Kirahé - The White Stranger. On the way to the last primitive peoples , Ch. Links, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-425-9
  • with Liane von Billerbeck: Scientology. How the sect group wants to conquer the world , Ch. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-470-9 , 2nd edition Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 2011, ISBN 978-3596190096
  • as editor, with Thomas Schmid : The Arab Revolution. Democratic awakening from Tunisia to the Gulf , Ch. Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-640-6

Movie

  • with Markus Thöß: The Scientology informers. The sect secret service OSA , television documentary, 90 minutes, first broadcast in 2012, Arte, online

Awards

  • Ostergie journalist prize, 1st prize, 2004
  • The long breath, 1st prize for long-term reporting on Scientology and other sects in 2007
  • New York Festival, Shortlist in the Television News category for The Spies of Scientology - Office of Special Affairs OSA , 2013
  • DuMont Journalist Prize, 1st prize for the report Between the Fronts from the Syrian Civil War, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Greetings from the Bosporus , archive version
  3. ↑ “It's good that Berlin is taking a stand so clearly” , Interview by Violetta Hagen, March 10, 2019, stuttgarter-zeitung.de, online
  4. ↑ http://programm.ard.de/TV/daserste/die-spitzel-von-scientology/eid_281068097419673
  5. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: The state within the state of Scientology. In: FAZ.net . June 26, 2012, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Tim Slagman: Sect Documentation: Scientology Spy and the "Carrot of Freedom". In: welt.de . June 25, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ B. Traven's beginnings: The "original version" of the death ship. In: The German Quarterly , Volume 65 (1992), pp. 378-395. - "Views most wonderful": B. Traven's first trip to the land of spring. In: Jörg Thunecke (Ed.): B. Traven the Writer / The writer B. Traven. Edition Refugium, Nottingham 2003, pp. 215–241. ISBN 0-9542612-0-8 ; ibid .: "I experienced a rebirth": The initiation motif in B. Travens' early work, pp. 253–282. - The Lord of Power. A text from the Mexican estate as a link between Ret Marut and B. Traven. In: Günter Dammann (Ed.): B. Traven's story in the constellation of languages ​​and cultures , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, pp. 1–13. ISBN 3-8260-3080-X
  8. ↑ The unsolved-unsolved riddle. B. Traven and the Otto Feige Hypothesis. In: The fire chair. Work and activity of the writer B. Traven, ed. v. Simone Barrientos and Karsten Krampitz, Berlin 2019, pp. 61–80
  9. ↑ The Stranger on Calle Mississippi , in: Berliner Zeitung , March 11, 2000, online
  10. ↑ Berlin journalists' prize “Der Long Breath” awarded in: Der Tagesspiegel, October 31, 2007, online
  11. ^ Syria: Between the Fronts , in: Berliner Zeitung, September 15, 2012, online
personal data
SURNAME Nordhausen, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin