Michaela Haas

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Michaela Haas , from 2001 also Michaela Maxwell (* 1970 in Erding ) is a German journalist , television presenter and author .

Life

Michaela Haas grew up as the daughter of a management consultant and a judicial secretary near Munich. As a schoolgirl she wrote articles for the Erdinger local edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung from the age of 16 . She completed an apprenticeship at the German School of Journalism as a qualified journalist. At the same time, she studied journalism, philosophy and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1994 Giovanni di Lorenzo hired her as a reporter for Seite Drei of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. At the end of 1997, she interrupted her work in Germany for a few years to work as a freelance correspondent abroad and to study in Nepal and France. From 2001 she was in front of the camera at WDR and ARD under the name Michaela Maxwell, then again under the name Michaela Haas at Bayerischer Rundfunk. In 2008 she did her PhD in philosophy at the Asian Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn . She lives in Germany near Munich and in Malibu , California.

TV presenter

From 1994 to 1996 Michaela Haas moderated the 90-minute youth discussion program Live from Alabama on Bavarian television . According to the concept of the program, controversial or publicly regarded topics of the time, such as genetic engineering or AIDS, were discussed and brought Michaela Haas recognition and praise, but also difficulties. For example, the BR did not broadcast the program live via the PDS, but as a recording afterwards. When the end of the series became apparent and the editorial management was relieved of their duties, Michaela Haas went to WDR and hosted the European magazine Boulevard Europa there from 1996 to 1997 .

After her stay abroad she was from 2001 to 2004 again at WDR worked as a presenter, including for cultural programs cultural scene and western style and for the monthly ARD telecast cultural world levels . In 2004 she returned to BR and alternated with Sabine Sauer to host the 30-minute interview program Unter Vier Augen for several years , with guests such as Werner Schneyder and Lisa Fitz, among others.

Author activity

Michaela Haas has been working as a freelance reporter and interviewer for Süddeutsche Zeitung , SZ-Magazin , Die Zeit , Brigitte , GEO , Merian and other German daily newspapers and magazines since 1994 . She published interviews and portraits of Jean-Jacques Sempé and Maria Shriver , among others . She is a member of the Solutions Journalism Network and has been writing a weekly solution column for SZ-Magazin since November 2017, "The solution for everything". Her American column Wild Wild West was previously published as part of SZ Magazine . She is the author of the book Crazy America: A Declaration of Love to a Crazy Country and a non-fiction book about post-traumatic growth : Strong as a phoenix: How we develop our resilience and grow beyond ourselves in crises (OW Barth, 2015), for which she among other things interviewed human rights activist Maya Angelou , autistic pioneer Temple Grandin, and Auschwitz survivor Coco Schumann . In 2013 she published the book Dakini Power with twelve biographies of women who are active as teachers of Tibetan Buddhism.

She also worked as an interviewer on a 30-minute television film about the book author Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel. and as a co-director on several documentaries for WDR, u. a. over the Tibesti Desert in Chad.

Works

  • Crazy America: A Declaration of Love to a Crazy Country (Goldmann, 2017)
  • Strong as a phoenix: How we develop our resilience forces and grow beyond ourselves in crises (OW Barth, 2015)
  • Buddha's fearless daughters. Twelve extraordinary women who shape Buddhism today. Knaur, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-87658-9 .
  • Collaboration in recording the autobiography: Coco Schumann : Der Ghetto-Swinger (dtv, 1997)

Companies

Since 2001, coaches Michaela Haas top managers (eg. As Porsche , E.ON ) and runs media and interview training for managers and colleagues by. This led to the founding of her own coaching company HAAS live! In 2008 . Communication, coaching, consulting , with which she works in Europe and America.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Buschheuer's successor found . netzeitung.de. December 17, 2001. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ to Live from Alabama
  3. ↑ Michaela Haas: New presenter of the "culture scene" . WDR. December 15, 2000. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ In private
  5. ↑ SZ-Magazin: My thoughts were always somewhere else
  6. ↑ The Terminator . The time. February 9, 2006. Retrieved September 17, 2012.
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ SZ magazine. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ http://www.droemer-knaur.de/ebooks/8267122/stark-wie-ein-phoenix
  10. ↑ Michaela Haas: Dakini Power. Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West , Snow Lion / Shambhala Publications, USA 2013 ( Book Description online )
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ The power of an open question . Boeddhist Omroep Stichting. 2009. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Michaela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maxwell, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Erding