Gert Anhalt

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Gert Anhalt (born January 2, 1963 in Bad Wildungen ) is a German journalist and author of non-fiction and crime novels .

Life

After graduating from the Philippinum grammar school in Marburg , Anhalt studied Japanese studies at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1984 to 1988 and as a DAAD scholarship holder in Tokyo . During this time, he was already working as an intern for the ARD studio Tokyo in 1986 . In 1987 he sat in on ZDF , but in the following years also made radio reports for the Hessian and Bavarian broadcasters . After a shortened traineeship at ZDF in 1989, he became editor of the main news department in the same year and finally a reporter for heute-journal . From 1990 to 1992 he also acted as a commentator on the ZDF annual review Album - Pictures of the Year .

From 1993, Anhalt worked in the Far East for 13 years . First he was head of the ZDF studio in Beijing from 1993 , then from October 1998 he was a reporter in the ZDF reporter pool. From September 2000 to 2006 he headed the ZDF studio Tokyo, where he was also responsible for reporting on South Korea , Taiwan , the Philippines and Micronesia . He commented on his reports, including the 10-part series It doesn't always have to be sushi , often with a laconic humor that is rather unfamiliar to foreign reporters and occasionally in rhyme form.

During the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he worked as an on-site reporter with a hand-held camera and produced regular short articles called clues about the life of the locals during the games. In 2008 he published the two-part report China's Treasures on ZDF , and in March 2009 an episode of the four-part documentary series India . For the ZDFinfokanal he shoots short documentaries in a loose series under the titles "Bin mal kurz ..." and "Bin mal kurz a little longer ...". In 2011, two weeks after the Tōhoku earthquake , he toured the devastated area for the documentary The Coast of Tears, broadcast in the same year on 3sat and ARD .

Anhalt is the author of several non-fiction books on the subject of the Far East, to which he also contributed the photographs himself. He published his first novel in 1996 under the pseudonym Raymond A. Scofield . A number of other crime novels followed, the plot of which is also mostly set in the Far East.

Anhalt received the Golden Compass at the international tourist film competition Prix ​​ITB Berlin in 1996 and 1998 .

Book publications

  • Okinawa between Washington and Tokyo, 1991
  • Gelber Kaiser, 1996 (as Raymond A. Scofield)
  • The Black Thangka, 1998 (as Raymond A. Scofield)
  • China's naked parachutists, 1999
  • Babylon, 2001 (as Raymond A. Scofield)
  • The Tibet Conspiracy, 2001 (as Raymond A. Scofield)
  • Tiger's Claws, 2002 (as Raymond A. Scofield)
  • Dead don't like sushi, 2002
  • Hydra Company, 2002 (as Raymond A. Scofield)
  • For a handful of yen, 2004
  • The Jade Palace, 2005 (as Raymond A. Scofield)
  • Time for Japan, 2005
  • Sayonara for a corpse, 2007
  • Japan, 2007
  • Really cheesy. Caspari determined, 2014
  • The great lord. A Christmas Novel, 2015 (as Raymond A. Scofield)
  • The Old Nichol Christmas Miracle, 2016 (as Raymond A. Scofield)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Album - Pictures of a Year
  2. ↑ ARD: Description of The Coast of Tears . Retrieved August 10, 2012 .
  3. ↑ 3sat: Description of The Coast of Tears . Retrieved August 10, 2012 .

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personal data
SURNAME Anhalt, Gert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scofield, Raymond A. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author of crime novels
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wildungen