Hannah Wettig
Hannah Wettig (born January 2, 1971 in Göttingen ) is a German publicist . Her main areas of work are the Arab world , development cooperation and feminism . Her reports and analyzes appear regularly in Jungle World , analyze & kritik and various other newspapers, including Die Welt , Emma , the Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte and the Jüdische Allgemeine .
Life
Hannah Wettig is the daughter of Inge Wettig-Danielmeier and Klaus Wettig . After the American high school Accounts and the High School she studied social sciences and Arabic in Göttingen and Arabic in Cairo and Damascus . She then completed an internship at the Berliner Zeitung . She then worked for a few years as a reporter for the English-language Beirut daily newspaper The Daily Star . From 2007 to 2009 she worked as a consultant in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation .
She has two daughters with the writer Joachim Helfer .
Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring revolutions , she has been touring the region more and more. a. from Libya , Tunisia , Egypt . Since 2012 she has appeared for the Syrian- German non-governmental organization (NGO) Adopt a Revolution , which organizes support for the uprising against the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad . From 2013 to 2016 she worked for the German-Iraqi NGO Wadi eV as a project manager for the “Stop FGM Middle East” campaign, which fights against female genital mutilation in the Muslim countries of the Near and Middle East and South Asia. Since 2016 she has been coordinating the project "From Refugee to Citizen".
Book publications
- Departure in Lebanon. On the way to the cedar revolution. Reports from Beirut , Berlin: Vorwärts Buch, 2005, ISBN 978-3-86602-922-4
- On the way to one world , Berlin, 2012 (together with Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul ), Berlin: Vorwärts-Buch, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86602-937-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Hannah Wettig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile at forward book
- Articles in Jungle World Article Search
- Article in Daily Star Beirut, article search
- October 2015) / Radio Fritz “Blue Moon” October 5, 2015 on the Syria conflict with studio guest Hannah Wettig
- Left newspaper: The many godparents of Syria, April 2, 2016
- Emma: Myth of the Strange Rapist, September 7, 2016
- Radio Dreyeckland: Hannah Wettig and her analysis to Cologne, March 20, 2017
- Homepage Stop FGM Middle East
- Homepage Adopt a Revolution - support the Syrian spring
- Homepage From refugee to citizen
Individual evidence
- ^ Junge Welt : Propaganda Squad of the Day: Adopt a Revolution , October 8, 2015, p. 8, accessed October 11, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wettig, Hannah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |