Hans-Jörg Schmidt

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Hans-Jörg Schmidt (* 1953 in Halle an der Saale ) is a German journalist and book author .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer in his native Halle, he first worked as a trainee at the regional radio station of Radio DDR . He later studied journalism in Leipzig and subsequently worked in various editorial offices at the GDR radio in Berlin , most recently in the Eastern Europe department of the foreign policy editorial office. In 1990 he was sent to Prague as Czechoslovakia correspondent .

After the end of the GDR and with it the radio of the GDR, Schmidt stayed in Prague and worked as a freelance journalist. Today he writes as a correspondent and commentator for Die Welt Berlin, the Sächsische Zeitung Dresden and the news agency KNA Bonn. He has also written two books about the Czech Republic so far .

As part of the German-Czech Journalism Award 2018, Schmidt was honored with the first special award for many years of outstanding journalistic activity.

Publications, works

• Czech Republic: A Country Portrait. Photos by Björn Steinz. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2006; 4th edition, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-936-0 .

Web links

• Homepage
• Article by Hans-Jörg Schmidt on his blog on Künstne.centrum.cz (Czech and German)
• Thomas Kirschner: Between Politics and Postal Savings: Basic Course in the Czech Republic from the bookshelf. In: radio.cz. ČRo , October 19, 2006 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German-Czech Journalism Prize 2018 awarded. Press release, November 10, 2018. In: deutsch-tschechischer-journalistenpreis.de. German-Czech Future Fund , November 18, 2018 .