Karin Wenger

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Karin Wenger (* 1979 ) is a Swiss journalist and foreign correspondent for Swiss radio and television (SRF). She has lived in Bangkok since 2016 . Before that she was South Asia correspondent for SRF in New Delhi .

Life

Karin Wenger grew up in Bassersdorf . She studied political science and communication science as well as journalism in Freiburg , Ireland and at the University of Bir Zait in the West Bank . She also worked as a snowboard instructor in Grindelwald , as a coachman in Bern , as a gaucha in Argentina , as an intern at UBS and as a peace watcher in Chiapas .

From 2004 to 2009 she reported as a freelance journalist from the Middle East , including for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . During this time, she wrote her book “Checkpoint Huwara - Israeli elite soldiers and Palestinian resistance fighters break the silence”. Before the Syrian civil war , she spent half a year in Damascus to work for NGOs with refugees on the Iraqi-Syrian border. She started at SRF in 2009 and worked as a South Asia correspondent in India until 2016 . She has lived in Bangkok since April 2016.

Wenger repeatedly reports on theaters of war for SRF. In 2011 and 2012 she was an embedded journalist with the US Army in Afghanistan .

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Works

  • Checkpoint Huwara - Israeli elite soldiers and Palestinian resistance fighters break the silence. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03823-408-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Karin Wenger: Person. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Susanne Reichling: Karin Wenger: Too curious questions in Sri Lanka. In: Dorf-Blitz. 2010, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Karin Wenger: Karin Wenger, Southeast Asia Correspondent, Bangkok. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Miriam Suter: Unfiltered in the middle of the war. April 27, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wenger, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979