Sacha Batthyany

Sacha Batthyany (* 1973 ) is a Swiss journalist and author .

Life

Batthyany studied sociology in Zurich and Madrid . Until 2008 he was an editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , then for the magazine of the Tages-Anzeiger . Since 2015 he has been a correspondent for the Tages-Anzeiger and the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Washington, DC. He teaches creative writing at the Swiss journalism school MAZ . Since the beginning of 2018 he has been back in Zurich and in the background editorial team of the NZZ am Sonntag .

His book And what does that have to do with me? about the Rechnitz massacre , in which his great-aunt Margit von Batthyány was involved, was nominated for the Swiss Book Prize.

Works

• And what does that have to do with me? Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04831-5 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Sacha Batthyany in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Sacha Batthyany at perlentaucher.de
• Works by Sacha Batthyany in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sacha Batthyany becomes the new correspondent in Washington. In: Tamedia website , April 1, 2015, accessed on October 16, 2016 (press release). 
2. ↑ Sacha Batthyany returns after ten years. (No longer available online.) In: persoenlich.ch, October 6, 2017, archived from the original on October 6, 2017 ; accessed on April 10, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Kracht and Steinbeck on the shortlist. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 21, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .