Klaus Scherer (journalist)

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Klaus Scherer (born April 10, 1961 in Thaleischweiler-Fröschen ) is a German television journalist and book author .

Life

After studying sociology, geography and journalism at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , he volunteered at Sender Freie Berlin , where he worked as a domestic correspondent for ARD-aktuell . In 1995 he moved to the NDR political magazine Panorama in Hamburg . Four years later he became an ARD Far East correspondent and studio manager in Tokyo . From 2004 onwards he produced documentaries and travel reports from Hamburg. From 2007 to 2012 he was an ARD correspondent in Washington . On July 1, 2012, he returned to Hamburg as a travel and special reporter.

Scherer is married and has three children.

Works

Documentaries and reports

  • 1995: Between Fear and Farewell: Old Age Suicide in Germany (ARD)
  • 2000: Kamikaze: death warrant for Japan's youth (ARD)
  • 2001: From Rurutu to Upolu : On an island course with South Seas pilots (ARD)
  • 2002: Volcanoes, Pop and Guard Soldiers: Out and about in Japan and Korea (ARD)
  • 2004: Diary from North Korea: Between the cult of the leader and fear of foreigners (ARD)
  • 2005: We had to go on living. A year with the tsunami victims (ARD)
  • 2005: On the date line through the South Seas: On an island course with Klaus Scherer (ARD)
  • 2006: On the Arctic Circle: With Klaus Scherer through Alaska, Canada and Greenland (ARD)
  • 2007: From Siberia to Japan: With Klaus Scherer through a forgotten paradise (ARD)
  • 2008: Everyday life of a superpower: A journey through America (ARD)
  • 2009: Under the spell of the Yukon: With dog sled guides through Alaska (ARD)
  • 2011: Attack from the Internet: How online perpetrators threaten us (ARD)
  • 2012: 8000 miles to Alaska: With Klaus Scherer through America's north (ARD)
  • 2013: Under the spell of the Arctic: With Klaus Scherer from Greenland to Alaska (ARD)
  • 2014: Targeted by hackers: How dangerous is the network? (ARD)
  • 2015: Nagasaki: Why did the second bomb fall? (ARD)
  • 2015: Is it all a lie or what? When news becomes a weapon (ARD)
  • 2017: The bus, the mob and the village: last exit Clausnitz (ARD)
  • 2017: Sauerkraut & Sushi: Trip to Germany with Japanese (ARD)
  • 2018: war of nerves over North Korea: what is Kim Jong Un doing? (ARD)
  • 2020: The Otto Warmbier file. What really happened in North Korea? (ARD)

Books

  • "Asocial" in the Third Reich: The Forgotten Persecuted. Votum Verlag, Münster 1990.
  • Kamikaze: Death Warrant for Japan's Youth. Survivors report. Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2001.
  • On the date line through the South Seas. A diary. Egmont Verlagsgesellschaft, National Geographic, Cologne 2004.
  • Traveling the Arctic Circle: Forty Days in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Egmont Verlagsgesellschaft, National Geographic, Cologne 2006.
  • From Siberia to Japan: Journey through a forgotten paradise. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2007.
  • Madness America: Inside Views of a World Power. Piper, Munich 2012.
  • At the end of the ice age. The Arctic is changing. Piper Verlag, Munich 2013. 320 pp.
  • Nagasaki. The myth of the decisive bomb. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-446-24947-9 .

Awards

  • 1995: Axel Springer Prize for young journalists
  • 1996: German television award "Telestar"
  • 2001: Adolf Grimme Prize
  • 2015: Special Jury Remi Award, Houston, USA
  • 2015: Green Award, Deauville, France
  • 2015: 1st Prize ART & TUR Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
  • 2016: Special Jury Remi Award, Houston, USA
  • 2016: Program Certificate, Input-Conference, Calgary, Canada
  • 2016: Finalist Award, New York Festival, USA
  • 2016: Finalist Award, Peace On Earth Film Festival, Chicago, USA
  • 2017: Ginkgo Ehren Award, Munich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Scherer: From the life of a passport , accessed on January 7, 2013
  2. ↑ Alexander Krei: New correspondents in the ARD studio in Washington. dwdl.de , accessed on October 16, 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.ndr.de/kultur/kino_und_film/ndr_produktionen/arktis149.html ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ "Nagasaki - Why did the second bomb fall? (ARD) “, youtube. Retrieved December 8, 2015 .
  5. ^ René Martens: City to Ashes. For a long time it was believed that the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to force Japan to surrender. Historians are now reporting doubts in an ARD documentary. “Zeit-Online” on “Nagasaki: Why did the second bomb fall” . In: The time . August 3, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 25, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Manfred Riepe: No military necessity: “Media correspondence” on “Nagasaki: Why did the second bomb fall” . August 7, 2015 ( medienkorrespondenz.de [accessed April 25, 2017]).
  7. ↑ "Gardening in Greenland", At the end of the Ice Age. The changing arctic , review by Monika Seynsche in Deutschlandradio Kultur on November 12, 2013, accessed November 13, 2013
  8. ↑ Alan Posener : Unheimliche Stille , Review, in: August 1, 2015, p. 4 (Posener criticizes Scherer's uncritical adoption of theories of the revisionist historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa )
personal data
SURNAME Scherer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Thaleischweiler frogs