Stelios Kouloglou
Stelios Kouloglou ( Greek Στέλιος Κούλογλου , born February 27, 1953 in Athens ) is a Greek politician ( Syriza ), journalist and director.
Life
After completing his pharmacy studies at the University of Athens, Stelios Kouloglou studied journalism in Paris, Tokyo and India. He began his journalistic work in 1981 for the magazine "Anti". He later worked as a political journalist for the newspaper "To Vima" and as a correspondent for the newspaper "Augi" in Paris. In 1989 he moved to Moscow, where he reported on behalf of the Radio “Sky” and the newspaper “ Kathimerini ” on the events that changed the face of the Soviet Union and the other former socialist countries. Between 1992 and 1995 he was a war correspondent in the former Yugoslavia . He writes in several magazines and publishes seven books. With more than 80,000 copies, his book “Never go to the post office alone” was one of the bestsellers of the years 2002–2003 in Greece.
In 1996 he became the director and presenter of the program "Reportage without Borders", a weekly documentary series on ERT . This program is named the best Greek news program four times. In 2000 and 2002, Kouloglou was awarded the Euro-Comenius Prize for the documentary films “Communism, the great utopia of the 20th century” (six episodes) and “Course against death” (about a football game between Germans and the residents of the occupied Kiev during World War II).
In October 2005 he was editor and presenter of the program “Thematiki Vradia” (theme evening) on Greek public television ET1. On May 12, 2008, ERT's board of directors decided not to renew the journalist's contract. The official reason was that the show had exhausted all topics. According to Kouloglou, however, the station had filed an application to discontinue its program "Generation of € 700" in the previous days and refused to support the production of its program on human rights in China. Various MEPs in the Greek Parliament have put questions to the minister responsible about the termination of its cooperation with ERT.
On November 1st, 2008 he created the website TVXS “TV without borders”, one of the most widely read news portals with political analysis.
In 2008 he directed the documentary "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film was based on the autobiographical book " Confessions of an Economic Hit Man " by John Perkins as well as personal journalistic research. Kouloglou concludes that the strength of the United States as an economic superpower rests on “a secret group of economic agents who use fraudulent financial reporting, takeovers, extortion, sex and murder as a means to restore the American economic empire after the end of the Second To spread World War ". The film won awards in South Korea and Spain.
In January 2010, Stelios Kouloglou returns to ERT and becomes a member of the Board of Directors. In June 2010 he gave up on his program “Reportage without Borders” until the ERT was closed by the government of Antonis Samaras.
In the 2014 European elections he was elected as Deputy MEP with SYRIZA, and in January 2015 he will take over from Geórgios Katroúgalos, who has since become Deputy Minister for Administrative Reforms.
Works
His documentaries also include “Oligarchy” (2012), a film about the global financial crisis that was filmed in the USA, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ecuador. His film “Holocaust of Memory” (2013) is a shocking testimony of the Nazi crimes in Greece. His documentary “I Nona” (German: Die Godmother), (2014) focuses on Angela Merkel and her strategy to enforce German hegemony in Europe. His latest film "Evasion of Amorgos" refers to the exiled politician Giorgos Mylonas and shows the true face of the dictatorship of the colonels in Greece.
Web links
- Entry on Stelios Kouloglou in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
- Stelios Kouloglou in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kouloglou, Stelios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek journalist and politician (Syriza), MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens , Greece |