Susanne Koelbl
Susanne Koelbl (* 1965 in Munich ) is a German journalist and author . She is a foreign reporter for Spiegel .
Life
Susanne Koelbl was born in Munich in 1965 as the daughter of the photographer and documentary filmmaker Herlinde Koelbl . After graduating from the Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium (BBG) in Munich- Pasing , Koelbl studied languages at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest (UCO) in Angers in France and politics and history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) . Koelbl did her journalistic training in Munich. She volunteered at the evening newspaper , for which she then worked as an editor and then went to SZ-Magazin as an author and co-founder . In 1991 she switched to Spiegel in Hamburg and from the end of the 1990s reported from war and crisis regions, including from the former Yugoslavia , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Iraq , Iran , Syria and North Korea . She also conducted several interviews with heads of state and government, including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad , Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir , former Presidents Hamid Karzai (Afghanistan), Pervez Musharraf and Asif Ali Zardari (Pakistan) and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (Iraq). In April 2008 it became known that the Federal Intelligence Service in 2006 was monitoring the Afghan Minister of Trade and Industry, Amin Farhang , and had also recorded emails from Spiegel reporter Susanne Koelbl.
On a Knight Wallace Fellowship, she studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the United States of America. During a sabbatical in 2011/12, she worked on a study on Syria and gave guest lectures on the war in Afghanistan . Koelbl is also a fellow of the German-French Youth Office (DFJW) and a fellow of the German-Israeli Young Leaders Exchange of the Bertelsmann Foundation . In 2011, she spent three months in Beijing , China, as the China-Germany media ambassador for the Robert Bosch Stiftung .
She was also a lecturer in the journalism department at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University .
Awards
- In 2014 with the Liberty Award for her reports on the civil war in Syria and North Korea
Works
- Susanne Koelbl, Olaf Ihlau : War in the Hindu Kush: People and powers in Afghanistan . Random House, Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-55075-5 .
- Susanne Koelbl, Olaf Ihlau: Beloved, dark country. People and powers in Afghanistan . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-878-6 .
- Susanne Koelbl: 12 weeks in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia between dictatorship and new beginnings. Deutsche-Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3421047861 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Vehlewald and Susanne Koelbl: "This is psycho war" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1995 ( online ).
- ↑ Severin Weiland: The master of the spies is allowed to stay. In: Spiegel Online. April 25, 2008, accessed on September 25, 2012 : “In 2006, the BND monitored the Afghan Minister of Trade and Industry, Amin Farhang, and recorded e-mails from the reporter. According to the government, BND President Uhrlau only found out about this a year later, at the end of 2007. "
- ↑ "I couldn't believe it". In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed August 26, 2018 .
- ↑ https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/knight-wallace/our-fellows/2011-2012/
- ↑ http://home.uni-leipzig.de/journalistik/index.php?id=492
- ↑ https://www.liberty-award.de/downloads/presse/reemtsma_liberty-award_pm_100414.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koelbl, Susanne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |