Peter Schille

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Peter Schille (* 1940 ; † April 8, 1991 ) was a German journalist .

Life

Schille never studied journalism and from 1970 worked for the magazine m from Burda publishing house together with Peter Schünemann , Bazon Brock , Michael Naumann and others. He then switched to GEO and from there to ZEIT magazine .

From 1985 until his death, Schille worked for Der Spiegel . In 1987, he was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for his report He is a wild animal in the mirror . He wrote about his work on the trial against Klaus Barbie :

"A report in which you do not hear the tears, the howling and the chattering of teeth and the terrible din of mutual murder between the pages is not a report."

- Peter Schille : He's a wild animal

During his time as a Spiegel reporter, Schille mainly dealt with human misery in places in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Haiti and Palestine, but also with Eastern Europe before and during the fall of the Wall. He died of cancer in 1991 at the age of 51.

Works

  • Threatened paradises. Explorations in Europe's most beautiful nature reserves , together with Hans W. Silvester. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1982. ISBN 3-570-04955-8 .

items

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gisela Freisinger: Hubert Burda: Der Medienfürst , p. 106. Campus Verlag, 2005.
  2. ↑ DIE ZEIT: How it all began - Drugs & Rock'n'Roll in ZEITmagazin. In: Die Zeit 1999. Online at http://www.zeit.de/1999/19/199919.die_redaktion_de.xml
  3. ↑ Peter Schille: He is a wild animal - About the victims of Klaus Barbie. - In: Der Spiegel No. 20 of May 11, 1987.
  4. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners , online at http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/buecher/509895.html
  5. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: In- House Communication Re: Peter Schille . In: Der Spiegel, No. 16/1991 of April 15, 1991, page 3b.
personal data
SURNAME Schille, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1991