Thomas Schiller

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Thomas Schiller (born July 12, 1963 in Dortmund ) is a German journalist. Since August 2017 he has been in charge of communication at Diakonie Deutschland in Berlin. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of the Evangelical Press Service (epd) in the epd central editorial office in Frankfurt am Main since 1999 and, from 2011, at the same time in the epd regional service east in Berlin. He was also the journalistic director of the Evangelical Journalism School (EJS) Berlin from 2008 to 2017 .

Life

After studying journalism and history at the University of Dortmund , Schiller went to the German Press Agency (dpa) in 1990 and worked in Erfurt, Munich and Paris. In addition to his journalistic activities, he did his doctorate in 1996 on Nazi propaganda for foreign workers in World War II. In 1999 he joined the joint venture of Protestant journalism , which includes the epd central editorial office, the Protestant school of journalism and the Protestant magazine " chrismon ".

Schiller is a member of the advisory board of the Evangelical Academy in Berlin and the advisory board of the papers for welfare. From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of the German Press Council, from 2005 to 2011 of the presidential assembly of the German Evangelical Church Congress.

Fonts

Books
  • Nazi propaganda for the “labor deployment”: camp newspapers for foreign workers in World War II, Münster (LIT-Verlag) 1997
  • Revolt of the peaceful. epd correspondents look back on autumn 1989, epd-Texte 22, Frankfurt a. M. 1999 (co-editor)
  • Journalism in theory and practice. Contributions to university journalism training. Festschrift for Kurt Koszyk, Konstanz (UVK) 1999 (co-editor)
  • They didn't expect candles. The end of the GDR - from the peaceful revolution to German unity, Leipzig (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt) 2015 (co-editor)
Contributions (selection)
  • We are the good. On the tension between social engagement and critical public. epd documentation 3/2015
  • Evangelical Church and Media. In: Klöcker / Tworuschka (Hg :) Handbuch der Religionen. 45th delivery 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diakonie Deutschland: Thomas Schiller becomes Head of Communication at Diakonie Deutschland . In: Infoportal - Diakonie Deutschland . ( diakonie.de [accessed October 26, 2017]).
  2. ^ Announcement of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers from January 20, 1999
  3. ↑ sschroeder: Evangelical Academy in Berlin: Dr. Thomas Schiller. Retrieved October 26, 2017 (German).
  4. ^ Sheets of welfare care (BdW); German journal for social work - Nomos - Advisory Board. Retrieved October 26, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Plenary and sponsoring association: Press Council. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schiller, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund