Richard C. Schneider

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Richard C. Schneider

Richard Chaim Schneider (born January 6, 1957 in Munich ) is a German journalist , author and documentary filmmaker . He was also head of the ARD studios in Tel Aviv and Rome .

Life

Schneider was born the son of Hungarian Shoah survivors and studied German , theater , art history and philosophy . For several years he worked as an assistant director , dramaturge and director at city and state theaters in Amsterdam , Bonn , Munich and Vienna . After a lengthy research stay in Jerusalem , he began writing as a freelance journalist for various print media.

From 1989 he worked for ARD and since then has reported regularly from the Middle East. From September 2006 to February 2016 he was the director of the ARD television studio in Tel Aviv and responsible for Israel , the Palestinian Territories and Cyprus . After his service in Israel, he took over the management of the ARD television studio in Rome in March 2016, with responsibility for Italy , Greece , Malta and the Vatican . In spring 2017 he returned to Tel Aviv, from where he continues to work for ARD as Editor-at-Large .

Schneider during a shoot in Nicosia on the occasion of the opening of the Green Line (2008)

Schneider published a. a. also regularly posts in a video blog , in which he shed light on further contexts and backgrounds of his current field of work as a foreign correspondent . Articles about everyday life or the sights in his reporting area also found their place. His video blog from the Middle East was titled Between the Mediterranean and Jordan , his video blog from Southern Europe was called Where Europe Began .

Positions

In 2018, Schneider described the collaboration between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and right-wing populist heads of government such as Viktor Orbán and Jaroslaw Kaczynski as the " Faustian Pact ". They recognized “one of their own” in Netanyahu (and vice versa) because they shared a common ideology: “the fight against Islamism , the rejection of liberal democracy , the distrust of the free media and, last but not least, the hatred of George Soros ”. Netanyahu seems to be " sacrificing the interests of European Jews, their fight against anti-Semitism in their own countries, the pure interest politics of his country, or better: his person."

Awards

  • 2000: Bavarian TV Prize and Civis Media Prize for the four-part documentary Wir sind da! Jews in Germany after 1945 .
  • 2007: Tagesthemen Award for a report from a Qassam factory of Islamic Jihad in Gaza .
  • 2009: Bavarian TV Prize for the documentary Days of Terror about the war in the Gaza Strip , because he succeeded in compassionately portraying the suffering on both sides.
  • 2011: Grimme Prize for the KiKA production paper chase in the Holy Land . Schneider and the ARD studio Tel Aviv were significantly involved in the implementation of the project, but were not among the award winners.
  • 2013: Tagesthemen-Award for a report on the Gaza war in 2012.
  • 2014: Grimme Online Award in the Information category for the web special Between Hope and Despair - the New Middle East , which prepares extensive background information for the documentation of the same name.
  • 2015: Tagesthemen Award in the Social Media category for the outstanding presentation of his reporting area on Twitter and in the tri-media blog from Tel Aviv.

Books

  • Intermediate worlds. A Jewish life in Germany today. Kindler, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-463-40204-1 ; Completely revised and supplemented paperback edition: Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-77216-7 .
  • with Esaias Baitel: The forgotten tribe. The Ethiopian Jews and their history. Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-588-8 .
  • with Peter Ferdinand Koch: Secret Depot Switzerland. How banks make money from the Holocaust. List, Munich / Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-471-79345-3 .
  • Fetish Holocaust. The extermination of the Jews - suppressed and marketed. Kindler, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-463-40299-8 .
  • Israel at the turning point. From democracy to fundamentalism? Kindler, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-463-40252-1 .
  • We are there! The history of the Jews in Germany from 1945 to the present day. Ullstein, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89834-006-6 ; as audio book: Der Hörverlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89584-518-3 .
  • Who is guilty? Who is right? What you need to know about the Middle East conflict. Ullstein, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-550-07638-1 .
  • Everyday life in a state of emergency. My view of Israel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-421-04329-0 .

Web links

Commons : Richard C. Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Corinna Emundts: Tagesschau-Chat: Richard C. Schneider, ARD correspondent Tel Aviv. In: tagesschau.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, May 7, 2008, accessed on January 4, 2010 (chat log with short biography).
  2. ↑ a b c d Keynote speaker at the 13th Alpensymposium 2015 - Speakers: Richard C. Schneider. In: alpensymposium.ch. International Alpine Symposium, 2015, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Philipp Peyman Engel: ARD correspondent: "I would have loved to stay." In: juedische-allgemeine.de. Central Council of Jews in Germany, December 24, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2019 .
  4. ^ Richard C. Schneider. In: korrespondenten.tagesschau.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on June 17, 2019 : “Richard C. Schneider was director of the Tel Aviv studio from September 2006 to February 2016. Since March 1st, 2016 he has been the studio manager for TV and chief correspondent in Rome. "
  5. ^ Richard C. Schneider. In: Website of the Department of Human Geography. University of Basel , 2017, accessed on March 31, 2018 .
  6. ^ Richard C. Schneider: From Orbán to Corbyn: The new normality of anti-Semitism. In: Blätter für deutsche und Internationale Politik 9/2018, pp. 74–82
  7. ↑ City walks - Studio Tel Aviv. In: br.de. Bayerischer Rundfunk, May 6, 2013, archived from the original on February 18, 2016 ; accessed on January 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ ARD-aktuell awards daily theme awards. In: presseportal.de. news aktuell GmbH, July 6, 2007, accessed on June 17, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Seehofer awards the Bavarian Television Prize 2009. In: bayern.de. Bavarian State Chancellery, May 15, 2009, accessed on January 23, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Grimme Prize for "Scavenger Hunt in the Holy Land". In: presseportal.de. news aktuell GmbH, March 16, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2016 .
  11. ^ Special Prize for Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia - Scavenger Hunt in the Holy Land (KI.KA). In: grimme-preis.de. Grimme Institute , 2011, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Grimme Online Award 2014 - Between Hope and Despair - the new Middle East. In: grimme-online-award.de. Grimme Institute, 2014, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Anja Miller: Tagesthemen-Awards - Two prizes for the BR. In: br.de. Bayerischer Rundfunk, September 23, 2015, accessed on January 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Richard C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Richard Chaim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and director of ARD studios
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich