Markus Huth

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Markus Huth (2018)

Markus Huth (born April 16, 1982 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German journalist , photographer and author .

Live and act

Huth grew up in Weißwasser and attended the Lew-Landau-Gymnasium. After graduating from high school in 2000, he did military service with the paratrooper battalion 373 in Doberlug-Kirchhain . He then studied history and classical archeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin , with a one-year stay abroad at the RGGU in Moscow . After completing his studies, he volunteered at the news agency dapd and then worked as a dapd editor in the regional office in Hamburg . Since 2013, Huth has been a freelance text and photo journalist with a focus on travel reports and society.

In 2014 he founded the international reporting magazine Weltseher (formerly Sieh die Welt ) together with the Hamburg journalist Oliver Alegiani . Both run the magazine as editors-in-chief. In addition, he published articles in various regional and national German-speaking media, u. a. in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Die Welt and Der Spiegel .

In 2013 and 2016 he traveled to the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan and described his experiences in the book Without a Plan through Kyrgyzstan . From 2017 he traveled around the world as a pet sitter with stays in Sri Lanka , Namibia , Canada , Australia , Bulgaria , Kyrgyzstan and La Gomera . This resulted in the book With 80 Viechern around the world .

Today Huth lives with his wife and son on La Gomera .

Awards

For his report Die Unglücksraben he was awarded the media prize of the Austrian Federal Association for People with Disabilities ( ÖZIV ) in 2016. In addition, he was nominated for the alternative media award in Germany .

Publications

  • Without a plan through Kyrgyzstan. In search of the wild end of the world . Penguin Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-328-10047-8
  • Around the world with 80 animals. Traveling as a pet sitter . Penguin Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-328-10243-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Süddeutsche Zeitung: World tour of an animal sitter. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Random House publishing group: Markus Huth. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ "stern.de" cooperates with "Sieh die Welt". Retrieved February 3, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Sri Lanka: Reach for the cinnamon . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 3, 2020]).
  5. ↑ WORLD: Without a plan through Kyrgyzstan . In: THE WORLD . May 6, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed February 3, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Markus Huth, DER SPIEGEL: Bundeswehr: Post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers - DER SPIEGEL - Job & Career. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ ÖZIV member magazine "INCLUSIVE" ( issue number 220, issue 04/2016)
  8. ↑ Nominations 2016. Accessed February 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, photographer and book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel