Markus Wehner

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Markus Wehner (born August 24, 1963 in Fulda ) is a German journalist .

Career

Wehner studied Eastern European history, political science and Slavic studies in Freiburg , Moscow and Berlin . In 1992 he passed his master's degree at the Free University of Berlin . Since 1992 he has been a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , specializing in the humanities and political books. In 1996 he received his doctorate for a thesis on Soviet peasant policy in the 1920s.

In October 1996 Wehner joined the FAZ newsroom. From October 1999 he was a correspondent in Moscow for five years. Since autumn 2004 he has been a correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in Berlin.

In 2008 Markus Wehner moderated the 12th autumn discussion of the Hessian constitutional protection , in 2009 the 8th symposium of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution with the topic "Violent extremism and terrorism in the context of the economic crisis - a danger to democracy?"

In 2017, after the G20 riots in Hamburg , he criticized the funding program of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ), saying that there was too little funding for projects against left-wing extremism.

Works

  • with Eckart Lohse : War of the Roses. The grand coalition 2005–2009 . Cologne 2009.
  • with Eckart Lohse: Guttenberg. Biography . Munich 2011.
  • with Eckart Lohse: Steinbrück. Biography . Munich 2012.
  • Putin's Cold War: How Russia is driving the West ahead . 2016.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Wehner: Little helps little: Only one percent against left-wing extremism . Ed .: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 11, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Wehner, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda