Manfred Quiring

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Manfred Quiring (born April 13, 1948 in Lübz ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author who has specialized in topics related to the political system in Russia and especially the Caucasus .

Life

Manfred Quiring grew up in Berlin, where he graduated from high school. First he decided to pursue a career as a professional ice hockey player at SC Dynamo Berlin , where he played as a striker between 1967 and 1970 and with whom he won the GDR ice hockey championship in 1967/68 , until he began a distance learning course in journalism in Leipzig . From 1973 he was the foreign policy editor of the Berliner Zeitung , whose correspondent in Moscow he was first from 1982 to 1987 and again from 1991 to 1995. In the meantime, he moved to ADN in 1988 , whose correspondent he was in Athens from September 1989 until he switched back to the Berliner Zeitung. From 1998 to 2010 Quiring was finally a correspondent for Die Welt , Berliner Morgenpost , Welt am Sonntag and Hamburger Abendblatt in Moscow.

He toured the former Soviet Union and Russia from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka , from Norilsk to Turkmenistan , and experienced all the changes in the highest state office live in Moscow. He met Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin and conducted interviews a. a. with Junus-Bek Jewkurow and Ramsan Kadyrov .

Quiring is the author of numerous articles in newspapers and other publications (e.g. From Politics and Contemporary History and papers for German and international politics ) as well as several non-fiction books. The latter were all published by Ch. Links Verlag .

Quiring is married to a journalist and has two daughters.

Publications

  • Russia. Orientation in the giant realm , Berlin 2008, Ch. Links Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86153-471-6
  • Powder keg Caucasus. National conflicts and Islamist dangers on the edge of Europe , 2nd edition, 2016, Ch. Links Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86153-899-8
  • The forgotten genocide. Sochi and the tragedy of the Circassians , Berlin 2013, Ch. Links Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86153-733-5
  • Putin's Russian world. How the Kremlin divides Europe. , Berlin, 2017 Ch. Links Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86153-941-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Meyen , Anke Fiedler: The border in the head: Journalists in the GDR . Panama Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-938714-16-4 , pp. 59 .
personal data
SURNAME Quiring, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, non-fiction author and ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebz