Kai Strittmatter

Kai Strittmatter (* 1965 ) is a German journalist and book author .

Life

Kai Strittmatter grew up in the Allgäu and studied Sinology at the University of Munich from 1984 to 1992 with study visits to Xi'an ( People's Republic of China ) and Taipei ( Taiwan ). He then attended the German School of Journalism in Munich . From 1997 he was a correspondent in Beijing for the Süddeutsche Zeitung for eight years . From 2005 to 2012 he reported for the SZ from Istanbul on Turkey and Greece , from 2012 to 2018 he was again their correspondent in Beijing. He is now the Scandinavian correspondent for the newspaper. Articles by Strittmatter were also selected for Presseurop.eu and eurotopics . At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 Kai Strittmatter was awarded the getAbstract International Book Award 2019 for his book "The Reinvention of Dictatorship". Strittmatter is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

In 2014 Strittmatter received the Theodor Wolff Prize in the category “Reportage / Essay / Analysis” for his international report “Wolfskind”. In it he recalls the oppressive times of the Cultural Revolution in China, in which children denounced their parents as not being loyal to the party and thus sent them to their deaths.

Book publications

Stop breathing, please! Beijing Skyfalls. Picus, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85452-742-X .
Forward comrades! Chinese star fishermen. Picus, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85452-778-0 .
Caution, bow your head! Hong Kong soldier of fortune. Picus, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85452-905-8 .
Instructions for use for China. Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-27574-3 .
Istanbul: Metropolis between the worlds. Photographs by Reto Guntli in collaboration with Agi Simoes. Knesebeck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89660-555-9 .
Instructions for use for Istanbul. Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-27592-7 .
The reinvention of dictatorship - How China is building the digital surveillance state and thereby challenging us . Piper Verlag GmbH, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-99215-2 (288 pages, limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ My street. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 29, 2012, p. V4 f.
↑ Press release from Piper Verlag of October 22, 2019
↑ Journalist Prize of the German Newspapers - Theodor Wolff Prize 2014 ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Strittmatter, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH	1965

[1] My street. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 29, 2012, p. V4 f.

[2] Press release from Piper Verlag of October 22, 2019

[3] Journalist Prize of the German Newspapers - Theodor Wolff Prize 2014 ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )