Tomas Avenarius

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Tomas Avenarius (born July 10, 1961 in Dortmund ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Tomas Avenarius grew up in Heidelberg and studied political science in Munich . He learned his trade at the German School of Journalism there . In 1986 he started at Bayerischer Rundfunk and the news agency Deutscher Depeschen Dienst . In 1991 he went to the Süddeutsche Zeitung , initially as an editor.

From 1999 to 2004 he was the foreign correspondent of the Süddeutsche in Moscow .

With his colleague Florian Hassel from the Frankfurter Rundschau , he secretly and illegally traveled to Chechnya to report on the second Chechen war . For their reports on the "quickly forgotten war" with personal commitment , Hassel and Avenarius received the second prize in the Guardian Prize of the German daily press in 2003 .

Since 2005, Avenarius has been the Middle East correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung based in Cairo .

Anna Bergmann described stereotypical twists in his travelogues from Afghanistan as exemplary for “colonial patterns of perception”. In 2011, Avenarius contributed to the illustrated book "Photos for Press Freedom 2011" by Reporters Without Borders . His examination of the profession of war reporter , published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Tages-Anzeiger after the death of Peter Scholl-Latour, received media attention . In October the Süddeutsche Zeitung published his media-critical essay on reporting on hot spots with the title Only a fool finds the truth in a war .

Awards

Publications

  • More fear of God than Allah can use. Afghan impressions . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85452-759-4 .P
  • Between glorified admiration and missed opportunities. In: Hanni Hüsch (Ed.): This is how the world sees us: Views about Germany . Herder, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-06732-7 , pp. 192–207.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tomas Avenarius , kress heads
  2. The two courageous journalists from Germany: Florian Hassel and Tomas Avenarius. DokZentrum ansTageslicht.de
  3. Tomas Avenarius, Florian Hassel: The quickly forgotten war In: Message. No. 4 (2003), ISSN  1438-499X , Sowiport
  4. Wächterpreis awarded by the daily press. Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers , May 13, 2003.
  5. ^ Marc Bartl: Many new "SZ" correspondents. In: kress News . October 25, 2005.
  6. Anna Bergmann: The return of colonial and military images of masculinity. In: Martina Thiele et al. (Ed.): Media - War - Gender. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16730-5 , p. 156ff. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-531-92342-0
  7. Reporters Without Borders publishes the illustrated book "Photos for Press Freedom 2011" , press release Reporters Without Borders , April 30, 2011.
  8. Article 19 (Ed .: Reporters Without Borders , Photos for Freedom of the Press), TAZ-Verlags-und-Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937683-33-1 .
  9. The devil is loose at the front. In: Tages-Anzeiger . August 25, 2014.
  10. Christian Meier: colleague war reporter: "Please let out air, please hang lower". In: Meedia . August 25, 2014.
  11. ^ Carl Wilhelm Macke: War junkies, careerists and forgotten helpers. In: Medium magazine . 09/2014.
  12. Only a fool finds the truth in war. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 5th October 2015.