Markus Bickel

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Markus Bickel (born July 25, 1971 in Venezuela ) is a German editor , reporter , Balkan and Middle East correspondent and publicist . His studies on arms exports were widely received in 2017, especially in his work Die Profiteure des Terrors .

Life

Born in Venezuela as the son of a GTZ employee, Bickel's desire to become a reporter was first awakened by trips abroad to conflict areas in Latin America. As a teenager he lived in Saudi Arabia for 3 years and attended the international school there. After graduating from high school in Germany, graduating from the German School of Journalism (DJS) in Munich and studying politics in Berlin , he initially stayed in Berlin as editor of the weekly newspaper Jungle World , then he worked as a Balkan correspondent in Sarajevo .

In 2005 he moved to Beirut . From there he worked for Spiegel Online , Die Zeit and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Standard , and the Stuttgarter Zeitung, among others .

From 2008 to 2012 he was editor of the FAZ in Frankfurt am Main , from 2012 to 2015 its Middle East correspondent in Cairo .

He has been working as an author and journalist in Berlin since 2016. He publishes online in FAZ and ZEIT.

Since 2017 he has been editor-in-chief of the Berlin “Amnesty Journal”, the publication organ of Amnesty International .

Publications

The Forgotten Middle East Conflict (2011)

The Falter review rates the publication as an easily readable and well-founded introduction to the “other” conflict between Syria , Lebanon and Israel , which is not focused on Palestine . In the opinion of Thomas Schmidinger , it becomes clear once more when reading “that it is not human rights, but Syria's foreign policy orientation that was and is decisive for Western Syria policy”. Damascus' relationship with its ally Iran and its “main enemy” Israel play a role in this. As in the case of Iran, the question of a secret nuclear reactor , which is said to have been destroyed by the Israeli air force in 2007, is the focus of interest in Syria .

The Profiteers of Terror (2017)

In the review of the Deutsche Welle , the reviewer of the monograph, which is much discussed, if you want to understand the current debate on German arms policy in all its facets, you cannot ignore Bickel's book.

The thesis is that the new fear of terror, especially in and from Arab dictatorships, is benefiting mainly German armories, despite the government coalition's intention to restrict arms exports in crisis regions. The author explains this primarily from the “fixation on trade” of German diplomacy . “In addition, the most important Arab alliance partners now exert considerable economic influence in Germany themselves. Qatar's ex-head of government is a major shareholder in Deutsche Bank . The United Arab Emirates bought into German shipping companies and airlines with the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. ”A powerful alliance of the“ defense technology industry ”with the elected representatives finally also“ brought Sigmar Gabriel to his knees ”, who had completely different goals had started.

Private

Bickel is married, has two children and lives in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

  • MARCO POLO travel guide Montenegro - travel with insider tips. Including free tour app & update service . Mairdumont, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-8297-2840-9 .
  • Together with Wolfram Reiss u. a .: The rise and fall of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood 2011–2013 . Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8288-6584-6 .
  • The forgotten Middle East conflict: Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah . Leske-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-942377-02-7 .
  • The profiteers of terror. How Germany earns from wars and strengthens Arab dictatorships . Westend Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-86489-152-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ | Weltreporter.net. Accessed January 5, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Markus Bickel - The Profiteure of Terror - A book from Westend Verlag . In: Westend Verlag GmbH . ( westendverlag.de [accessed January 5, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Markus Bickel: The forgotten Middle East conflict - book review. Falter.at, accessed on January 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Arms exports - How Germany earns money from conflicts . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on January 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bickel, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Venezuela