Holger Stark (journalist)

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Holger Stark (* 1970 in Berlin ) is a German journalist .

Life

From 1989 to 1991, Holger Stark completed his training at the German School of Journalism in Munich and the Berlin School of Journalism in Berlin. Stark then went on to work as an editor for the Berliner Zeitung from 1991 to 1993 . From 1993 to 1998 he studied political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and graduated with a degree in political science.

In addition to his studies, he worked as a freelance editor and reporter for the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg and Radio Fritz in Babelsberg . From 1999 to 2001, Stark was an editor at the Berliner Tagesspiegel . In May 2001 he switched to the news magazine Der Spiegel as a correspondent . In 2006 he became deputy head of the Germany department and in 2010 its head. In 2013 he went to the USA with his wife, the journalist Barbara Junge . From June 2013, Stark worked as a correspondent for Spiegel in Washington, DC At the end of January 2017, he moved to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , where he is a member of the editor-in-chief responsible for investigative research.

Journalistic work

2001 Revealed Stark, together with the mirror colleague Georg Mascolo several undercover agents of the intelligence service in the far-right NPD . The reporting contributed to the fact that the Federal Constitutional Court rejected the first ban application against the party in view of the many state informers.

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , Islamist terrorism and the state misconduct in the so-called "war on terror" became a focus of his work. In 2002, together with Mascolo, Stark reported that the Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz, who was born in Germany, was interned by the USA in a detention center on Guantanamo . In 2003, he revealed that a delegation of German intelligence officers had visited and questioned Kurnaz on Guantanamo.

His story The Forgotten Prisoner (2005) about the kidnapping of the German-Syrian Muhammad Haidar Zammar by the US secret service CIA contributed to the establishment of an investigative committee of the German Bundestag, which examined the cooperation of the German security authorities with the US secret services.

Another focus of his work is the Middle East. In 2009 he and Erich Follath reported on Syria's secret nuclear plans and the Israeli attack on the hidden al-Kibar nuclear facility. Also with Follath, he described the background to the Iranian nuclear program on the basis of previously unknown documents.

In 2010, Stark coordinated the Spiegel reporting in the “ WikiLeaks affair”. Using secret US files that Chelsea Manning had handed over to Wikileaks, the New York Times , the British daily newspaper The Guardian , Der Spiegel and Wikileaks revealed how the US Army operated in Afghanistan and Iraq and provided an insight into geostrategic power interests from the USA based on confidential diplomatic dispatches.

In July 2013, Stark and colleagues reported on the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) based on internal documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden . Together with Marcel Rosenbach and Laura Poitras , he revealed, among other things, how the US secret services had bugged EU diplomatic institutions in Washington and New York. As a result, he and his colleagues continued to write reports on the NSA affair, including the monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone by the NSA in October 2013.

Others

In the Hollywood film Inside Wikileaks - The Fifth Estate , Stark appears as a supporting character, played by Anatole Taubman .

Stark is a frequent guest in interviews on international television programs, including NBC , CNN , Al Jazeera America, Russia Today America and CCTV .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Barbara Junge, Julia Naumann: legal writer. How a network in media and politics is working on the restoration of the national (= Antifa Edition). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88520-621-8 .
  • with Marcel Rosenbach: Public enemy WikiLeaks. How a group of net activists challenge the most powerful nations in the world . DVA, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04518-8 .
  • with Marcel Rosenbach: The NSA complex. Edward Snowden and the path to total surveillance. DVA, 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04658-1

Awards

  • 2011: " Henri Nannen Prize for Documentation" for the reconstruction of the fatal bomb drop near Kunduz as part of a Spiegel team ( A German crime )
  • 2012: Nominated for the "Henri Nannen Prize for Investigation" for research on the planned export of German Leopard tanks to Saudi Arabia ( Merkel's secret )
  • 2013: Nominated for the "Henri Nannen Prize for Investigation" for research into German nuclear submarines for Israel ( secret operation Samson )
  • 2013: “ Journalist of the Year ” (together with Marcel Rosenbach) for his research on the NSA affair
  • 2014: Nominated for the “European Press Price” in London
  • 2014: "Henri Nannen Prize - Best Investigative Achievement", together with Jacob Appelbaum , Marcel Rosenbach and Jörg Schindler , for Chancellor cellphone in the US target?
  • 2018: Nannen Prize in the category Best Investigative Achievement for One Attack is to be expected

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Stark becomes a member of the editor-in-chief of ZEIT | DIE ZEIT publishing group. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Personnel at "Zeit" , Der Tagesspiegel June 30, 2016
  3. ↑ Holger Stark strengthens “time” -investigation , by Daniel Bouhs, NDR , January 31, 2017
  4. ↑ Holger Stark: A thin line . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 2001, p. 28-30 ( online - 9 July 2001 ).
  5. ↑ Georg Mascolo, Holger Stark: Ripe for the island . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 2003, p. 40-42 ( Online - Nov. 24, 2003 ).
  6. ↑ Holger Stark: The Forgotten Prisoner . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 2005, p. 100-108 ( Online - Nov. 21, 2005 ).
  7. ↑ Erich Follath, Holger Stark: Operation "Orchard" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 2009, p. 118-128 ( online - 2 November 2009 ).
  8. ↑ Erich Follath, Holger Stark: The birth of a bomb . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 2010, p. 97-105 ( Online - June 14, 2010 ).
  9. ↑ Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Holger Stark: Code name "Apalachee" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 2013, p. 85-89 ( Online - Aug. 26, 2013 ).
  10. ↑ Chancellor cellphone in US sight? Merkel complains to Obama , Der Spiegel from October 23, 2013
  11. ↑ Jacob Appelbaum, Nikolaus Blome, Hubert Gude, Ralf Neukirch, René Pfister, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Jörg Schindler, Gregor Peter Schmitz, Holger Stark: The uncanny friend . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 2013, p. 20–26 ( online - October 28, 2013 ).
  12. ↑ http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/11/reporter-obama-needs-to-show-some-regret-over-spying-allegations-in-germany
  13. ↑ http://connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com/tag/holger-stark/
  14. ↑ In- house communication: May 16, 2011 Re: Nannen price . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 2011, p. 3 ( online - May 16, 2011 ).
  15. ↑ a b Nominations and winners of the Henri Nannen Prize 2005 to 2013 ( Memento from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/pm/66148/2625783/die-journalisten-des-jahres-2013-gewinner-sind-die-spiegel-reporter-holger-stark-marcel-rosenbach
  17. ↑ European Press Price ( Memento of April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ NANNEN PRIZE 2018. Nominees and award winners
personal data
SURNAME Strong, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin