Jan Christoph Wiechmann

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Jan Christoph Wiechmann (* 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist .

Life

Jan Christoph Wiechmann studied history , Spanish and German in Hamburg and Argentina.

After graduating from the Henri Nannen School , Wiechmann first worked as an editor at NDR and then switched to Stern . He also works as a freelance screenwriter.

Wiechmann now lives in New York as a reporter for Stern.

Works

  • Father and Son at Home Alone - Stories from the Baby Year. Munich, dtv 2002, ISBN 3-423-36265-0 .

Awards

  • In 2010 he received the Henri Nannen Prize in the category of particularly understandable reporting for “America's dark secret”, written with Katja Gloger and Giuseppe Di Grazia in the star.
  • In 2002 he was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for his work Die Rebellen von Schloss Salem im stern .
  • In 1999 he received the German-Polish journalism award for his works Das verrängte Verbrechen and A Murderer in White , which appeared in stern.
  • In 2016 Wiechmann was awarded the Nannen Prize for the best report , for "Three Warriors", his report on the war in Afghanistan from three different perspectives.

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Short portrait at stern: Jan Christoph Wiechmann , (online) ( Memento from June 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ THE PRIZE WINNERS FOR THE HENRI NANNEN PRIZE 2010 ARE DETERMINED May 7th, 2010 ( Memento from May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Prize Winners 2010. Article dated May 7, 2010
  3. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners , online at http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/buecher/509895.html
  4. ↑ German-Polish Journalist Prize: 3rd German-Polish Journalist Prize awarded in 1999 , online at deutsch-polnischer-journalistenpreis.de ( Memento from May 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wiechmann, Jan Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg