Reinhard Veser

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Reinhard Veser (born October 17, 1968 in Stuttgart ) is a German journalist and has been the political editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since January 2000 .

Life

After completing his community service, Veser studied Slavic Studies , Eastern European history and political science at the universities of Heidelberg, Vilnius and Mainz from 1990 to 1997 . From 1986 he worked for the Filder newspaper . Since his studies in Lithuania (Vilnius) in the winter semester 1993/94 he wrote articles on Lithuania and Belarus. After completing his traineeship in 1998, he became editor of the FAZ's political department on January 1, 2000, where he mainly deals with Eastern Europe.

Veser is married and has two children.

Memberships

Veser was part of the jury for the Gerd Bucerius Free Press Eastern Europe Prize 2012. He took part in events organized by the Eastern European Reporting Network and was involved in events organized by the German Poland Institute . Veser has been a member of the German Society for Eastern European Studies since 1999 .

Political positions

Veser takes a decidedly conservative position, particularly clearly in his area of ​​Eastern European politics. The transatlantic security partnership is the foundation of German foreign policy.

Ukraine crisis and media criticism

Veser considers the main features of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to be clearly recognizable, beyond all justified demands for the representation of the "gray tones". The Ukrainian President Yanukovich, as a "corrupt and authoritarian ruler", tried to crush the initially peaceful mass protests on the Maidan by force. After his overthrow, the equally authoritarian Russia, which had supported him and had "urged him to crack down on the demonstrators," occupied part of the country and "started" a war with thousands of dead. Veser criticizes that the German debate about Ukraine and Russia was marked from the beginning by an "oppressive inability (or unwillingness)" to "distinguish black and white, right from wrong". This "denial of reality" was accompanied by insulting the media as one-sided, biased and anti-Russian. The criticism of the media coverage of the Ukraine crisis in the publication "Wir sind die Guten" by Mathias Bröckers and Paul Schreyer was described by Veser as an absurd conspiracy theory surrounding the American think tank Atlantic Council and "racist esotericism".

Publications

  • eBook as PDF: Vladimir Putin . From KGB agent to strong man in Russia . Frankfurter Allgemeine Archiv, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-89843-389-1 .
  • The new ones in the EU , Holzhausen (2004), ISBN 978-3854930846
  • The Prague Spring 1968 , State Center for Political Education Thuringia (1998), ISBN 978-3931426224
  • Talking out loud about the toughest questions. The novels Józef Mackiewicz , in: Jahrbuch Polen 2003, Volume 14, Deutsches Polen Institut, Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zeit-stiftung.de/home/popup.php?type=press_archive&id=667&PHPSESSID=56555e33a1b426a85f9484fcde32e592 , accessed on February 7, 2015
  2. ↑ n-ost.org. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde eV: Circular 1/1999. (PDF) Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Reinhard Veser: Black and White. In: FAZ.net . January 21, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  5. ^ Mathias Bröckers / Paul Schreyer: We are the good guys. Views of someone who understands Putin or how the media manipulate us. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86489-080-2
  6. ↑ Reinhard Veser: Racist esotericism. In: FAZ.net . January 12, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Veser, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart