Kerstin Holm
Kerstin Holm (born August 23, 1958 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and author . She has been working for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) since 1987 .
After graduating from high school and one year of college in the United States, she first studied music and graphic design. Then she turned to the Russian language and culture. She studied musicology, Slavic studies, Romance studies and German studies at the universities of Hamburg , Munich, Vienna and Konstanz up to the state examination and master's degree. In 1987 she joined the FAZ's "editorial staff". From 1991 to 2013 she reported on cultural and social issues from the area of the Commonwealth of Independent States and especially the Russian Federation .
In 2013 she returned to the FAZ headquarters.
Publications
- Books
- 2003: The Corrupt Empire - A Russian Panorama. Hanser, Munich ISBN 978-3-446-20378-5 .
- 2008: Rubens in Siberia (about looted art from Germany in the Russian provinces). Berlin Verlag, Berlin ISBN 978-3-8270-0728-5 .
- 2012: Moscow's power and muses - behind Russian facades, AB - The Other Library , Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8218-6213-2 . An anatomy of Russian society from the perspective of two writers - Wladimir Georgijewitsch Sorokin and Alina Wituchnowskaja - as well as two composers - Wladimir Martynow (* 1946) and Wladimir Tarnopolski (* 1955).
- Article (selection)
- February 2007: Russia's Venus Traps - How do I catch a millionaire?
- July 2012: Protest in Russia - The announced death of the opposition.
- January 2013: Letter from Moscow (Le Monde diplomatique - German edition)
- July 2014: Flight MH17 - Russian Lockerbie shot down.
- September 2014: Ukraine Crisis - Read Putin's job description.
- December 2014: Out of the Quengelecke (on the ban on veiling and on the burqa )
Web links
- Literature by Kerstin Holm in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ My Germany fairy tale. FAZ.net, November 2, 2013
- ↑ spiegel.de January 2, 2015: Journalism in Crisis: The End of the Media Monopoly (a column by Georg Diez ): all cultural correspondents abroad - with one nostalgic exception - were brought back to the FAZ headquarters
- ↑ Fascination and Terror “Moscow's Power and Muses” - Kerstin Holms clever analyzes of art and the state in Russia NZZ , Zurich October 27, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holm, Kerstin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |