Mariam Lau

Mariam Lau (2010)

Mariam Lau (birth name Mariam Nirumand ; * 1962 in Tehran ) is a German journalist and publicist .

Mariam Lau is the daughter of the Iranian publicist and author Bahman Nirumand , who fled to Germany in 1965 from the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and from that of the mullahs in 1982 (see also History of Iran since 1979 ), and the niece of Annette Schwarzenau , co-founder of Alternative list for democracy and environmental protection (AL) in West Berlin . Her mother is the sociologist Barbara Herkommer-Körfgen (nee Barbara Siepmann), who was later married to Sebastian Herkommer .

After completing a nursing education , Mariam Lau studied art history , film studies and American studies . After working as the cultural editor of the daily newspaper (taz) from 1992 to 1998 , she worked as a freelance journalist in Berlin . In 2003 she published an unauthorized biography about Harald Schmidt . She has been chief correspondent for Die Welt in Berlin since 2004 , and has been the political correspondent for Die Zeit since June 1, 2010 .

She is married to Jörg Lau , formerly also with the taz , now also with Die Zeit ; the two have three daughters.

Works

• The new sex fronts. On the fate of a revolution , Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8286-0081-6
• Harald Schmidt. A biography , Ullstein Verlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-36675-9
• The last people's party. Angela Merkel and the modernization of the CDU , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-04379-5

Web links

Commons : Mariam Lau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography and reviews of works by Mariam Lau at perlentaucher.de
• Mariam Lau, short biography and article on Zeit Online (accessed April 3, 2018)
• Selection of their articles and work
• Mariam Lau in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel: Mariam Lau becomes ZEIT's political correspondent. In: DIE ZEIT from May 25, 2010 ( Memento from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )