Marc Thörner

Marc Thörner (* 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author . In 2009 he received the Otto Brenner Prize .

Career

Marc Thörner studied history and Islamic studies at the University of Hamburg until 1985 . From 1990 to 1992 he worked as a freelance journalist and in 1992 as a speaker at the Catholic Academy in Hamburg. Marc Thörner was a foreign reporter for ARD from 1995 to 2007 and has been working as a freelance journalist since 2009 with a focus on the Maghreb , Gulf States, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He lives in Hamburg and Rabat .

Honors

• 2009: Otto Brenner Prize for the radio report We respect culture. In the German-controlled north of Afghanistan
• 2012: Nomination for the Marl Human Rights Prize with radio feature “The Hydra of the Dictators - Counter-Revolution in North Africa”, ARD radio feature

Publications

Non-fiction

• Iraq. From Saddam City to Sadr City . The Iraqi Shiites . Lamuv Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3889776587 .
• The wrong beard. Reports from the war on terror . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89401-557-2 .
• Afghanistan code. A report about war, fundamentalism and democracy . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89401-607-4 .
• The Arab Revolution and its Enemies . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-757-6 .
• A gentle coup. How the military make politics . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89401-792-7 .

Radio features (selection)

• "1001 Power - Tunisia and German Foreign Policy". WDR , 2004
• “Like a fish in the water? In Search of Osama Bin Laden ”. DLF / WDR, 2006
• "Fog in the Hindu Kush". (About the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan), DLF, 2006
• “We respect the culture”. In the German-controlled north of Afghanistan. DLF, 2009
• “The chess players of Tunis. The Islamist, the President and the Future of the Arabellion ”. DLF, 2013
• "Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan - Halmazag or: War Made in Germany", SWR2 , 2016 broadcast manuscript
• “Germany helps the wrong people” - Reconstruction aid in Afghanistan, DLF , 2018
• “The good bazooka gets bad. Germany and its arms deliveries to Northern Iraq ”, SWR2, 2018

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Marc Thörner at perlentaucher.de
• Literature by and about Marc Thörner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marc Thörner at Edition Nautilus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1st prize - Marc Thörner - short biography. (No longer available online.) Otto Brenner Prize , 2009, archived from the original on October 17, 2016 ; accessed on October 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. Jump up ↑ tanks for the caliphate. radio.ARD.de, accessed on November 19, 2018 . 
3. ↑ "We respect the culture". In the German-controlled north of Afghanistan. Deutschlandfunk , February 6, 2009, accessed October 17, 2016 . 
4. ↑ The Chess Players of Tunis. The Islamist, the President and the future of the Arabellion. Deutschlandfunk , July 9, 2013, accessed October 17, 2016 . 
5. ↑ "Bundeswehr Mission in Afghanistan - Halmazag or: War Made in Germany" (audio is offline). Deutschlandfunk, November 29, 2016, accessed October 26, 2018 . 
6. ↑ "Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan - Halmazag or: War Made in Germany" (broadcast manuscript, PDF). SWR2, November 2, 2016, accessed October 26, 2018 . 
7. ^ "Germany helps the wrong people" - Reconstruction aid in Afghanistan. Deutschlandfunk, July 3, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2018 . 
8. ↑ “The good bazooka gets bad. Germany and its arms deliveries to Northern Iraq ”. April 11, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .