Tom Schimmeck

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Tom Schimmeck (born October 27, 1959 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and publicist. He mainly publishes reports, radio features, portraits, commentaries and columns in newspapers, magazines and on the radio. His book Best Nothing New was published in 2010.

Life

Schimmeck grew up in Hamburg. At the beginning of his studies of German and history at the University of Hamburg he was one of the co-founders of taz and soon worked for them as editor and correspondent in Hamburg, Berlin and later in Bonn. From 1983 he also wrote for the Frankfurter Rundschau , the NDR and the magazines Konkret , Natur and Transatlantik . In 1984 he left the taz and worked as a freelance writer. In 1986 he became political editor and reporter for the newly founded magazine Tempo . At the beginning of 1987 he moved to Spiegel as a political editor .

At the end of 1989 Schimmeck left the paper and went to Johannesburg , South Africa , as a freelance writer . a. for Geo , Merian , Sports, Stern , Transatlantik, Wochenpost , the magazines of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Zeit , several daily newspapers and the radio reported on the time after Nelson Mandela's release , but also on the wars in neighboring countries such as Angola and Mozambique . In 1992 he moved to Vienna as a foreign reporter for the news magazine profil , for which he worked worldwide.

In 1993 the journalist returned to Hamburg to work for the newly founded weekly newspaper Die Woche as an editor, foreign reporter, portrait writer and columnist, initially in the Hamburg editorial team and later, until the newspaper was closed in 2002, as a contract author. Since then, Schimmeck has mainly worked for broadcasters such as Deutschlandfunk, NDR and MDR . The radio works he made on extensive travels include the Texas feature “On the Roadside of Democracy” (DLF 2004), the neo-Nazi feature “The March on the Middle”, the war veteran feature “The Scars of Uncle Sam” (DLF / NDR 2007) and the South Africa feature "Kalamazoo" (DLF 2010). His radio pieces about the history of the microphone ("Tonfänger", MDR 2007), rampant youth alcoholism ("Koma-Kicks", NDR 2008), poverty in Silicon Valley ("Silicon Blues - In the backyard of a myth", SWR 2015), dealing with weapons in the USA using the example of the death of the exchange student Diren D. ("Four shots in Missoula - The death of the student Diren D.", NDR / Deutschlandradio Kultur 2015) and traumatized German soldiers ("Kaputte Krieger", MDR 2018 ) have been awarded prizes. The author also writes for newspapers and magazines. In addition to politics, he deals with social issues, science and technology. His criticism of the state of the media was reflected in numerous speeches, articles and the propaganda feature "Spin" (NDR / DLF / SR 2008).

Schimmeck is a member of the Research Network and co-publisher of the online magazine MagDA.

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Radio play and feature

  • 2011: (with Thilo Guschas ): Slave market Germany . Director: Ulrich Lampen (NDR / ARD radiofeature)
  • 2012: Very good. The power of the testers . Director: Leonhard Koppelmann (NDR)
  • 2014: Children running . Director: Thomas Wolfertz ( Feature - NDR / DKultur)
  • 2015: Four shots in Missoula (The death of the student Diren D.) . Director: Nikolai von Koslowski (Feature - NDR / DKultur)
  • 2015: Silicon Blues. In the backyard of a myth. Director: Nikolai von Koslowski (Feature, SWR)
  • 2016: What does democracy cost? - The Koch brothers and the election campaign in the USA . Director: Matthias Kapohl (Feature, DLF / SWR)
    • Femme fatale for capital - Ayn Rand and the spirit of the USA . Director: Matthias Kapohl (Feature, DLF)
    • Silicon Dreams . Director: Helga Mathea (radio play and feature, WDR)
  • 2018: It is always the others who die Who makes money from the arms trade? . Director: Felicitas Ott (Feature, SWR / BR / WDR)
    • Fake factories. The profit with false reports . Director: Nikolai von Koslowski (Feature, NDR)
    • Broken warriors . Director: Andreas Meinetsberger (Feature, MDR)
  • 2019: Dreckschleuder Germany. Director: Nikolai von Koslowski (Feature, NDR / ARD)
  • 2020: Committed to the truth. About the loss of power of journalism . Director: Nikolai von Koslowski (Feature, SWR / ARD)
    • Silicon Children. Growing up between crash and promise. Director: Matthias Kapohl (Feature, DLF / RBB)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the author . On: schimmeck.de. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Westend publisher's announcement . On: westendverlag.de. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
  3. ↑ Vita at MagDA.de . On: magda.de. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
  4. ↑ Texas feature: http://www.dradio.de/download/23985/
  5. ↑ Feature "The March to the Middle": http://www.dradio.de/download/46760/
  6. ↑ Feature "The Scars of Uncle Sam" LINK: http://www.dradio.de/download/72731/
  7. ^ Message from the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry: Archived copy ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ SWR2 Feature: Silicon Blues | Feature | SWR2. June 8, 2015, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  9. ^ Original broadcast - Four shots in Missoula. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ mdr.de: Broken Warriors | MDR.DE. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ NDR announcement: https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/mitteilungen/pressemeldungndr4702.html
  12. ↑ Taz article "Arschlochalarm": http://www.taz.de/pt/2005/09/17/a0015.1/text
  13. ↑ Feature "Spin": http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/dasfeature/823486/
  14. ↑ Magazine of the authors MagDA.de: http://www.magda.de/
  15. ↑ deutschlandfunk.de , Andruck - Das Magazin für Politische Literatur , March 29, 2014, Helge Buttkereit: Politicians and their debates as a soap opera (November 6, 2016)
  16. ^ Deutschlandradio: Announcement four shots in Missoula. August 29, 2015, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  17. ↑ SWR: Silicon Blues - In the backyard of a myth. June 17, 2015, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Manuscript What Does Democracy Cost?
  19. ↑ Deutschlandradio: Manuscript Ayn Rand. November 4, 2016, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  20. ^ WDR: Silicon Dreams. December 6, 2016, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  21. ↑ SWR: Manuscript It is always others who die. March 28, 2018, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Deutschlandradio: Fake factories. March 7, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  23. ↑ MDR: program announcement Broken warrior. November 21, 2018, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  24. ^ NDR: Announcement Dreckschleuder Deutschland. March 31, 2019, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  25. ↑ SWR: ARD radio feature Committed to the truth. January 22, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  26. ↑ schimmeck.de
  27. ↑ ernst-schneider-preis.de ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  28. ↑ bremer-hoerkino.de
  29. ↑ ndr.de
  30. ↑ presseportal.de
  31. ↑ ndr.de: NDR radio feature wins radio award from the RIAS Berlin Commission (July 10, 2016)
  32. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): RIAS Media Awards: Praise for critical journalists | DW | 05/23/2019. Retrieved on August 22, 2019 (German).
  33. ↑ mdr.de: "Kaputte Krieger" - MDR feature about traumatized soldiers honored | MDR.DE. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  34. ^ DRK Bremen online marketing: Award winner. Retrieved on August 22, 2019 (German).
  35. ↑ Alternative Media Prize: Press release Alternative Media Prize 2020. In: Alternative Media Prize. Alternative media award, May 27, 2020, accessed on May 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schimmeck, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg