Susanne Fischer (journalist)

Susanne Fischer (2013)

Susanne Fischer (* 1968 in the Rhineland ) is a German journalist .

After studying politics and taking a journalism school, she reported on German politics for ten years for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Woche and Der Spiegel . From 2003 to 2008 she lived in Iraq, initially in Baghdad, where she wrote from and about Iraq. a. for Die Zeit , Der Tagesspiegel , Facts and stern.de . From March 2005 she lived in Kurdish Northern Iraq, where she trains Iraqi journalists on behalf of the British Institute for War and Peace Reporting . Susanne Fischer has lived and worked in Beirut since summer 2008.

In 2008 Susanne Fischer's Iraqi reporter team received the Henri Nannen Prize for Freedom of the Press. In 2008 she was awarded the Leipzig Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media and was named Journalist of the Year in the "Extraordinary Journalistic Commitment" category.

Fischer has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2017 .

Works

• Views of a late mother . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-50301-2
• News. The Televised Revolution . (with Monika Huber ). Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2012
• Dream log. Around the world by flying boat. The DO-24 . (With Iren Dornier ), Sandmann, Munich 2007
• My shared flat in Iraq or the villa on the verge of madness . Malik, Munich 2006
• Baghdad cafe. The immense everyday life in the new Iraq (with Christoph Reuter ). Bertelsmann, Munich 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Descriptor: Susanne Fischer .
2. ↑ Vita on Beschreiber.de

Web links

• Literature by and about Susanne Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library