Peter W. Schroeder

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Peter W. Schroeder (born February 2, 1942 in Germany ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Schroeder studied economics . He was deputy editor-in-chief of a news agency in Bonn, then a correspondent for NATO and the EU in Brussels. Since 1980 he has been reporting as a freelance foreign correspondent for medium-sized German, Austrian and Swiss newspapers from the USA; he is a much-quoted author. He was considered a sharp critic of George W. Bush's Iraq policy . Schroeder is married to the journalist and author Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand (* 1943). Both report from Washington that the couple has a son and a daughter.

His book The Paperclip Project told the unusual story of a Holocaust memorial in a school in Whitwell , Tennessee in the southern United States. The memorial is made up of six million paper clips , one for each victim of the Holocaust. For this purpose, collections are made all over the world.

Correspondent for the following newspapers

Publications

  • The great happiness of Lena Lieba lattice rose petals. A biography . Verlag Styria, Graz Vienna Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-222-12426-4
  • The paper clip project , Bertelsmann, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-570-14607-3
  • Europe without America? , Interfrom, Zurich, 1990, ISBN 3-7201-5230-8
  • with Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, Six million paper clips: the making of a children's Holocaust memorial , Kar-Ben Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-1-58013169-8
  • Reiner and Anne Engelmann (eds.), Lutz van Dijk, Reiner Engelmann, Christian Führer, Otto Herz , Peter W. Schroeder and others (authors), civil courage NOW! , Arena, Würzburg, 2002
  • USA - The unfinished history of a superpower , Arena Verlag, Würzburg, 2010. ISBN 978-3-401-06525-0 .
  • Assmanns Ende , Norden Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0987821607 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Peter W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany