Gemma Pörzgen

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Gemma Pörzgen (2014)

Gemma Pörzgen (* 1962 ) is a German journalist , foreign correspondent and author with a focus on Eastern Europe and media policy . She is on the Board of Directors of Reporters Without Borders .

Life

Gemma Pörzgen grew up in Moscow and Bonn. Since 2006 she has been living as a freelance journalist and author in Berlin.

She studied political science , Slavic studies and Eastern European history in Munich . During her studies, she worked as a freelancer for the SWF in Paris and in South Africa for Financial Mail and the English-language newspaper Natal Witness , which is considered progressive and in which black journalists also wrote, sometimes in isiZulu , during apartheid . In 1989 she completed her studies with a master's thesis on “Soviet Foreign Policy towards South Africa”. She completed a traineeship at Frankfurter Rundschau and was then from 1993 to 1997 news editor for FR with a focus on Eastern Europe, and from 1997 freelance journalist for Wiener Zeitung in Hamburg and Zagreb . As a Southeast Europe correspondent based in Belgrade , she worked for the Frankfurter Rundschau, the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the Tagesspiegel u. a. active. After the birth of two daughters, she worked as a Middle East correspondent for FR and the Stuttgarter Zeitung in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She has published in the scientific journal Osteuropa since 2008 and in the Ostpol magazine since 2010 , which is published by the Eastern European Reporting Network .

In 1994 Gemma Pörzgen was a founding member of the German section of Reporters Without Borders . She was a board member until 1999 and was re-elected to the board in 2009. From 2010 to 2013 she was a media consultant for the Uzbekistan Press Freedom Group in Berlin. She founded the Berlin regional group of the Association of Freelance Journalists Freischreiber .

Gemma Pörzgen is the daughter of the journalist Hermann Pörzgen and the editor Marie Theresa Pörzgen (née Körner ). For a book project about her father, A Life in Moscow , she received the "Grenzgänger" grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation in 2011 and the Milena Jesenska research grant in 2015. Gemma Pörzgen's maternal grandparents Heinrich Körner and Therese Körner belonged to the resistance of the Christian trade unions against the Nazi dictatorship.

Scholarships

Publications

monograph

Articles and book chapters (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gemma Pörzgen: Journalism as a personal risk , reporters without borders
  2. ^ Gemma Pörzgen: The Soviet foreign policy towards South Africa in the eighties. Historical basics and current developments , Munich 1989 ( sowiport )
  3. ^ Gemma Pörzgen in the network for Eastern Europe reporting ( Memento from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Reporters Without Borders eV: Gemma Pörzgen - Reporters Without Borders for Freedom of Information. In: Reporters Without Borders for Freedom of Information. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Articles by Gemma Pörzgen in the journal Osteuropa
  6. ↑ Gemma Pörzgen in: Ostpol. The Eastern Europe magazine
  7. ^ Berlin - freelancer. In: www.freischreiber.de. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Marie Theresa Pörzgen is dead in: General-Anzeiger , edition of March 19, 2013, p. 19
  9. ↑ Gemma Pörzgen, Milena Jesenská Visiting Fellow (September - November 2015), iwm.at
  10. ↑ africabib.org
personal data
SURNAME Pörzgen, Gemma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962