Friedrich Schreiber (journalist)

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Writer as a reporter (1989)
Friedrich Schreiber
(on April 29, 2007 in Gauting )

Friedrich Schreiber (born March 30, 1932 in Munich ) is a German journalist and publicist . His focus is on the politics of the Near and Middle East as well as persecution and resistance during the National Socialist era .

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School and study

After finishing school in Munich and Freising, Schreiber studied economics and political science in the USA and Munich from 1952 to 1956. 1956 graduate economist and 1962 doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Already during his studies and during his doctorate he showed a strong international orientation: in 1952/53 he received a Fulbright scholarship at Wesleyan University and in 1957/58 he completed a research stay in Paris with a research grant from NATO .

job

From 1959 to 1964 he initially worked as an economist at the EEC Commission in Brussels with a focus on economic and social development in Africa at the Directorate General for Overseas Development Issues.

In 1964 he switched to Bayerischer Rundfunk as a television journalist and was in charge of the European editorial team there until 1972. During his time as head of the foreign editorial department (1972–1987), numerous reports from the Near and Middle East shaped his work, and in 1988 he went to Tel Aviv for nine years as the ARD's Middle East correspondent . Schreiber became the “face of the Middle East conflict” on ARD; on the occasion of the end of his career as a television journalist, he was awarded the German Critics' Prize "for exemplary international reporting" in March 1997 .

Scientific activity

Even before his time as a foreign correspondent, and especially after his return to Germany, Schreiber taught at several Bavarian universities as a lecturer for politics in the Near and Middle East and for communication politics:

  • 1976–1986 University of Munich, Institute for Communication Policy
  • 1997–2003 University of Bamberg, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
  • 1997–2003 University of Munich, Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science
  • 1997–2000 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Politics in the Modern Middle East
  • 1998–2003 University of Munich, Institute for Communication Studies

Civil society engagement

Friedrich Schreiber during an annual memorial event organized by him to commemorate the death march from Dachau

Friedrich Schreiber has been a member of the SPD since 1962. Since his return to Germany in 1997, Schreiber has been a member of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy and is intensively and actively involved in the home environment for the memory of victims of the Nazi regime and the resistance against Hitler. Since 1998 Schreiber has been the spokesman for the "Würmtaler Citizens' Initiative to Remember the Death March of Dachau" and in 2004 he founded the "Association of Resistance and Persecution in Bavaria". In 2005 he designed the content of the website “Death March of Dachau - Remembrance and Commemoration” and in 2007 he founded the association “Commemoration in the Würmtal”, of which he is also chairman. Schreiber lives in Lochham .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview with Friedrich Schreiber from 2003 by Bayerischer Rundfunk (PDF file; 52 kB).
  2. ↑ Münchner Wochenanzeiger, December 7, 2015: High distinction for Friedrich Schreiber

Publications

  • The Saudis. Power and impotence of the rulers of Arabia . Molden, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-217-01219-4 .
  • The Palestinians. Fate of a Semitic people . Molden Seewald, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88919-009-X .
  • with Michael Wolffsohn: Middle East. History and structure of the conflict. 4th edition. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-8100-1478-8 .
  • Palestinian uprising. Intifada . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3-8100-0818-4 .
  • Battle for Palestine. A 3000 year history of violence . Langen-Müller, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7844-2397-3 .
  • Shalom Israel. News from a peaceless land. Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-35821-7 .
  • with Rita Haub : Alfred Delp. Hero against Hitler . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-429-02665-2 .

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SURNAME Schreiber, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich