John Goetz

John Goetz at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television 2015

John Goetz , also John C. Goetz (born 1962 in New York City ) is a German-speaking investigative journalist and author .

life and work

John Goetz has lived and worked in Berlin since 1989 . He has worked for the Sunday Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and as an editor at Spiegel . TV reports appeared on 60 Minutes , the CBS Evening News , Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and the TV magazine Panorama . Goetz has been working for NDR in the ARD's capital studio since 2011 .

Since the early 1990s dealt with the situation in the former Eastern bloc countries, produced Goetz in 1993 under the title "German tax money for Latvian SS veterans" along with Volker Steinhoff contributing to Panorama , which was further three shows at the start that the continued German pension payments to Latvian former members of the SS . It was not until 1997, triggered by media coverage, that German legislation was changed accordingly and payments were stopped.

In 2006 Goetz, together with other journalists, returned to Panorama , dealing with the role of agents of the Federal Intelligence Service in the Iraq war, which the German government rejected .

Another panorama report from 2006 in which Goetz was involved dealt with the kidnapping of the German citizen Khaled al-Masri by the CIA . Al-Masri was transported from Skopje to an Afghan prison, where he said he was tortured . In the film, the real names of the CIA employees involved were disclosed.

With the book Alone Against Kohl, Kiep & Co. (2000), the authors Goetz, Neumann and Schröm contributed to uncovering the background to the CDU donation affair . In 2012, Goetz published the non-fiction book The Cell, together with Christian Fuchs, about the right-wing extremist terrorist cell National Socialist Underground (NSU) .

Awards

The 2011 Henri Nannen Prize went to a team of eleven authors from Spiegel magazine , including Goetz, for “particularly understandable reporting” . The award went to the article A German crime in Spiegel No. 5/2010, which critically deals with the air attack near Kunduz on September 4, 2009 and describes it as a war crime .

In 2015, John Goetz won the Hunt for Snowden - How the Public Enemy Embarrassed the USA in the "Documentary" category at the German Academy for Television Award .

Book publications

• with Conny Neumann , Oliver Schröm : Alone against Kohl, Kiep, & Co. The story of an undesired investigation . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-217-4 .
• with Christian Fuchs : The cell. Right-wing terror in Germany . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-02005-7 .
• with Christian Fuchs: Secret War: How the fight against terrorism is controlled from Germany . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-02138-2 .
• Christian Fuchs, John Goetz: Beate, the brown widow . In: Die Zeit , No. 23/2012, p. 15; dossier

Web links

Commons : John Goetz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about John Goetz in the catalog of the German National Library
• The cell at Pearl Divers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} John Goetz. (No longer available online.) DokZentrum, University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Hamburg, archived from the original on October 4, 2012 ; Retrieved October 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
2. ↑ ^{a b} John Goetz. In: Pearl Divers . Retrieved October 3, 2012 .  
3. ^ J. Ransom Clark: Introduction to Documents. (No longer available online.) In: Sunday Times (London). November 26, 2000, archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; Retrieved October 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
4. ↑ suche.sueddeutsche.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Journalist John Goetz returns to NDR. In: Digitalfernsehen.de. June 30, 2011, accessed October 3, 2012 .  
6. ↑ Tax money for Nazi criminals. (No longer available online.) DokZentrum, University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Hamburg, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; Retrieved October 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
7. ↑ Chronology of the panorama reports and the events in the Bundestag. (No longer available online.) DokZentrum, University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Hamburg, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; Retrieved October 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
8. ^ Bombs on Baghdad - German agents involved in the Iraq war. In: Panorama (NDR). Retrieved October 4, 2012 .  
9. ^ Operation Nebelkerze - The BND and the bombs on Baghdad. In: Panorama (NDR). Retrieved October 4, 2012 .  
10. ↑ Al Masri kidnapping - on the trail of the CIA kidnappers. In: Panorama (NDR). Retrieved October 4, 2012 .  
11. ↑ Press release: Presumably three kidnappers of Khaled al Masri exposed. In: Panorama (NDR). Retrieved October 4, 2012 .  
12. ↑ Portrait of the author. Rowohlt, accessed October 3, 2012 .  
13. ^ "Alone against Kohl, Kiep & Co.": New book from Christoph Links Verlag. In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 8, 2000, accessed October 3, 2012 .  
14. ^ Henri Nannen Prize: Prize Winner 2011. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 10, 2012 ; Retrieved October 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
15. ↑ A German crime . In: Der Spiegel . No.  5 , 2010 ( online ).