Kim Wall (journalist)

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Kim Isabel Fredrika Wall (born March 23, 1987 in Gislöv near Trelleborg ; † August 10 or 11, 2017 on the Baltic Sea ) was a Swedish journalist . She was murdered in the private submarine UC3 Nautilus in the Copenhagen sea area .

Life

Kim Wall grew up in Trelleborg in Sweden and then lived in Malmö , London , Paris and New York . She graduated from Columbia University School of Journalism, where she graduated in 2013, and the London School of Economics and Political Science . Your expertise will be featured on a journalist's website in the field of international relations and policy analysis with a focus on Southeast Asian topics. She has worked as a journalist in Hong Kong , China, India, Australia, Sri Lanka and the USA. Wall has written for numerous international media, including The Guardian , Foreign Policy , The Atlantic , Al Jazeera , Slate , ChinaFile , VICE , South China Morning Post , The Diplomat, The Independent, and the New York Times .

For the multimedia report "Exodus" about the Marshall Islands , which appeared in November 2015 on sueddeutsche.de , Wall was awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize digital 2016 together with Coleen Jose and Jan Hendrik Hinzel .

Kim Wall's Disappearance and Death

UC3 Nautilus with Peter Madsen in the tower (2008)

For an interview with the Danish designer Peter Madsen, Kim Wall boarded his self-built submarine UC3 Nautilus on the evening of August 10, 2017 . Madsen and Wall were last seen in the tower of the submarine around 10:30 p.m. According to the conviction of the investigators and judges in the subsequent criminal case against Madsen, Wall was handcuffed, tortured, sexually abused, murdered and dismembered by Madsen. Wall's torso was found on August 21, 2017 on the shores of the island of Amager , south of Copenhagen near the Køgebucht. The forensic medical analysis showed that the head and limbs had been deliberately severed. 15 stab wounds were found on the torso. In October and November 2017, divers found the head, arms and legs that had been severed from the torso and items of clothing where corpse tracking dogs had struck. The skull showed no fractures or blunt injuries.

On June 1, 2018, Kim Wall was buried in Trelleborg in the presence of her family and a few confidants.

scholarship

Kim Wall's family donated a grant for young journalists in memory of Kim Wall .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Svenske Kim Isabel (30) he savnet etter ubåt-forliset. In: tv2.no
  2. ↑ Kim Wall. In: Journalism Grants. Accessed August 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ James Clayton: What has happened to the missing journalist Kim Wall? In: bbc.com. August 17, 2017, accessed on August 17, 2017 .
  4. ^ 'She was alive in ways that most of us can only dream of being alive'. In: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved on August 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Kim Wall. In: pulitzercenter.org. Accessed August 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Missing journalist: The submarine mystery from Køge Bay. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Kim Wall. In: pri.org. Accessed August 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Where the world is going down . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 27, 2015.
  9. ↑ Hansel Mieth Awards 2016: The Decision . In: Zeitenspiegel reports . March 7, 2016, accessed August 24, 2017.
  10. ↑ A tinkerer, his submarine and a missing journalist tagesspiegel.de, August 15, 2017.
  11. ↑ Peter Madsen sentenced to life imprisonment. Der Spiegel, April 25, 2018, accessed April 25, 2018 .
  12. ↑ This criminal case keeps Denmark in suspense. In: NWZ online , 23 August 2017.
  13. ↑ Missing journalist: Police find female torso. In: t-online.de. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Journalist who has disappeared from the submarine: The body of a woman from the Danish bay is Kim Wall. In: Spiegel Online. August 23, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Peter Madsen case: Investigators find head of dead Swedish journalist Kim Wall spiegel.de, October 7, 2017.
  16. ↑ Kim Wall: Detached head and legs found - Peter Madsen under pressure focus.de, October 8, 2017.
  17. ↑ Mysterious murder case Kim Wall: Police find second arm in bay stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, November 29, 2017.
  18. ↑ Kim Wall er bisat ved privat udendørs ceremoni bt.dk, June 6, 2018 (Danish).
  19. ↑ Journalist Kim Wall was buried spiegel.de, June 6, 2018.
  20. ↑ Family remembers Kim Wall with a scholarship spiegel.de, January 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Wall, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wall, Kim Isabel Fredrika (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Gislöv near Trelleborg
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2017 or August 11, 2017
Place of death Baltic Sea