Thomas Harding

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Thomas Harding (2011)

Thomas Lucien Harding (born August 31, 1968 in London ) is a British journalist and author.

Life

Harding attended Westminster School in London and studied anthropology and political science at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge . He began working as a journalist for television and has since written for a number of newspapers including The Guardian , The Sunday Times , The Independent and the Financial Times .

Harding published The Video Activist Handbook in 1998, coining the term video activism . In 2002 he was co-author of the anthology Video for Change . Harding was a co-founder of the Undercurrents organization and was licensed for the local Oxford Channel in 1998 .

Harding and his wife moved to the United States and he co-produced a political magazine for a television station in West Virginia . In 2006, he was in Shepherdstown co-editor of the newspaper The Shepherdstown Observer . His journalistic activities were administratively hindered by the West Virginia state government and he was sued for his reporting. In 2010, he won a trial in the state's Constitutional Court, and in 2011, thanks to his political activities in West Virginia, a law was passed that strengthened journalists' rights against state interference.

Harding is a relative of Hanns Alexander (1917-2006), who in 1936 as a Jew from the Nazi had to flee Germany and as a British officer at the end of World War II came to Germany. Its job was to find leading German National Socialists. In 1946 he succeeded in tracking down and arresting the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Rudolf Höss , who was hiding under a false name on a farm in Schleswig-Holstein. Harding researched the story and published it as a book in 2013. The biography was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Book Awards .

In 2015, Harding published the story of the Alexander House near Berlin, the summer house of his great-grandfather Alfred Alexander , as a book.

He has two children with Debora Harding and lives in Hampshire , England. Mid-July 2016 it was announced that Harding after the "United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum" decision , the German citizenship has requested.

Movie

A film documentary about the restoration of the Alexander House in Potsdam:

  • Anne Wigger: The house on the Glienicker See. Germany, documentary with Thomas Harding and many contemporary witnesses, editorial department Gabriele Conrad, 2017. 45 min. First broadcast on December 12, 2017, 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm on RBB television

Fonts (selection)

  • The video activist handbook . Pluto Press, London 1998
  • Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz . Heinemann, London 2013
    • Hanns and Rudolf. The German Jew and the Hunt for the Commander of Auschwitz . Translated from the English by Michael Schwellien. dtv, Munich 2014. ISBN 3-423-28044-1
  • The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany . Heinemann, London 2015
    • Summer house by the lake. Five families and 100 years of German history . Translated from the English by Daniel Bussenius. dtv, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-423-28069-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Harding: The Kommandant's Daughter , Washington Post Magazine , Sept. 8, 2013
  2. ↑ Undercurrents see English Wikipedia: Undercurrents (news)
  3. ↑ Oxford Channel see Wikipedia: Six TV
  4. ^ US publisher sues West Virginia secretary of state , in: New Statesman , June 3, 2010
  5. ↑ Lawrence Messina: W.Va. judge voids elections complaint gag law , Associated Press , June 20, 2012
  6. ↑ Steve Korris: Petitions are public records, Justices rule , West Virginia Record 30 September, 2010
  7. ^ Ian Thomson: Evil on the run , Financial Times , Sept. 14, 2013, p. 9
  8. ↑ The secret of the nice uncle in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on December 13, 2013, page 4
  9. ↑ Sommerhaus, now in FAZ from February 25, 2016, page 7
  10. ↑ Alan Posener : Summer house earlier . Review, in: Die Welt , February 27, 2016, p. 2
  11. ^ Dtv author Thomas Harding applies for German citizenship , buchmarkt.de, July 14, 2016, accessed on July 14, 2016
  12. ↑ Das Haus am Glienicker See , channel information on the film, rbb-online from December 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Harding, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harding, Thomas Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England