Tessa Szyszkowitz

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Tessa Szyszkowitz (born 1967 in Stuttgart ) is an Austrian journalist , author and historian .

Life

After completing her studies, Szyszkowitz worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the ORF radio, the Kurier and the Arbeiter-Zeitung . From 1991 to 1994 she was editor for foreign policy in the news magazine profil , then until 1998 Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem . She also reported from Jerusalem for Kurier and the Swiss news magazine Facts . From 1998 to 2002 she was the EU correspondent for Format in Brussels . In 2002 Szyszkowitz moved to Moscow , where she wrote for profil and the Swiss NZZ am Sonntag . She has lived in London since 2010. Szyszkowitz writes a. a. for the Austrian news magazine profil, the German magazine for political culture Cicero and the Viennese weekly newspaper Falter .

The historian received her doctorate in 2007 from the University of Vienna with a doctoral thesis on the subject of nationalism and terrorism. She has published books specializing in terrorism in Russia, Europe and the Middle East. The szylog weblog has been available in German and English since 2013 .

Tessa Szyszkowitz curates the Philoxenia series at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna.

Book publications (selection)

  • Trauma and Terror: On Palestinian and Chechen Nationalism . Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau, 2008. ISBN 978-3-205-77704-5
  • The New Russians: The Generation After Putin . Vienna: Picus, 2010. ISBN 978-3-85452-668-1
  • The peace fighter: Arafat's secret envoy Issam Sartawi . With an afterword by Nadia Sartawi. Vienna: Picus, 2011. ISBN 978-3-85452-678-0
  • Real English - Britain and Brexit , Picus Verlag, Vienna, September 2018, ISBN 978-3-7117-2069-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tessa Szyszkowitz at Picus Verlag , accessed on February 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Szyszkowitz, Tessa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, author and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart