Thomas Vogel (journalist)
Thomas Vogel (born October 6, 1959 in Zofingen ) is a Swiss journalist .
Life
Vogel studied German , political science and journalism at the Free University and the Humboldt University in Berlin . Vogel was the first foreigner to write a master's thesis on the “national question in GDR literature” at a West Berlin university and at a GDR university.
Vogel then worked as a political, economic and social editor for the Luzerner Tagblatt and the SonntagsBlick, among others . He has been with Swiss television since 1998, first with the consumer magazine Kassensturz, then as a Germany correspondent. From 2009 he was editor of the news show 10 to 10 , since 2012 he has been a reporter for the political magazine Rundschau .
Vogel is the author of a large number of television programs on Swiss, German and international politics. The former Eastern Bloc is a focus of his journalistic work . Together with Thomas Kunze , he analyzes the political, social and economic developments of all former sub-republics of the Soviet Union in the book From the Soviet Union to Independence (2011) as well as the political cult of personality in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Publications
- ed. with Thomas Kunze : Ostalgie international. Memories of the GDR from Nicaragua to Vietnam. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-600-0 .
- with Thomas Kunze : From the Soviet Union to independence. A journey through the 15 former Soviet republics. Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-644-4 ; also published under license for the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany), Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8389-0216-6 .
- with Thomas Kunze (Ed.): Oh you, beloved leader. Personality cult in the 20th and 21st centuries. Links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-734-2 . (Russian-language license edition: Отцы всех народов. Altyn Print, Bishkek 2014, ISBN 978-9967-08-483-4 , Turkish-language license edition: Ey Sevgili Liderim. Paloma, Istanbul 2016, ISBN 978-605-9200-10-3 )
- with Thomas Kunze : The end of the empire. What happened to the former Soviet republics. Links, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-644-4 . Published under license from the Federal Agency for Civic Education (2016), ISBN 978-3-8389-0676-8
Awards
- Media Prize Aargau, Solothurn in the TV category (2015)
- Swiss Press Award for the contribution “A village stands by its pastor” (2016)
- Television award from the Bern Foundation for Radio and Television for the contribution «Tired of life farmers» (2019)
- Swiss Press Award for the article "Can I only die on Friday?" (2019)
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Vogel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Vogel on the website of the Christoph-Links-Verlag
- Thomas Vogel on Zeitzeugen-TV
Remarks
- ↑ Recording of the book presentation in the Russian Embassy in Berlin ( memento of the original from December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Zeitzeugen TV, December 9, 2012, accessed on March 17, 2012.
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↑ Reviews:
- Thomas Grimm: Capitalism in its most unbridled form. In: The weekly newspaper . January 12, 2012
- Jens Rosbach: Transformation in the Ex-USSR. In: Deutschlandfunk . January 30, 2012
- Michael Groth: Stories with Soviet nostalgia. In: Deutschlandradio . August 12, 2012
- Florian Werner: Oh you, dear leader. ( Memento from February 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), WDR 5 , December 4, 2013
- Günter Beyer: Oh you, dear leader. SWR , December 15, 2013.
- ↑ 17th Aargau / Solothurn Media Prize awarded , website of the Aargau / Solothurn Media Prize, accessed on March 27, 2016.
- ↑ Swissaward , website Swissaward, accessed on July 28, 2019.
- ^ Award ceremony of the Bern Foundation for Radio and Television , website of the Bern Foundation for Radio and Television, accessed on July 28, 2019.
- ↑ SwissAward post by Thomas Vogel , Vimeo site, accessed on July 28 of 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Vogel, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1959 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zofingen , Switzerland |