Valeska from Roques

Valeska von Roques (* 1939 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Roques studied Protestant theology and history in Tübingen and Hamburg . From 1963 to 1965 she wrote for the newspaper Vorwärts . From 1965 to 1968 she was part of the editorial team of the NDR television magazine Panorama and then she worked for a Hamburg film production company . She worked as a correspondent for the German print magazine Der Spiegel in Rome , New York City and Paris , among others . As an author she wrote several books and in her books she deals in particular with the Vatican in Rome. Roques lives in Hamburg.

Works (selection)

• The hour of the leopards: Italy in transition , Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-518-39110-0
• The Testament of the Cardinal , Knaur-Taschenbuch-Verlag , Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-426-63270-3
• Mord im Vatikan , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 2005. ISBN 3-423-34266-8
• Conspiracy against the Pope: the background to the assassination attempt on John Paul II , Goldmann Verlag , Munich 2003. ISBN 3-442-15226-7

Prizes and awards (selection)

• 1965: Theodor Wolff Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Valeska von Roques in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pope assassination attempt 1981: Gravestone on the truth , Tagesspiegel , May 13, 2001
• The Pope and the Cold War , Die Welt , May 12, 2001
• The Inepts of Washington , Der Spiegel , April 16, 1984

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Valeska von Roques: Neighbors in the East. A historical documentation . With 44 illustrations. Ed .: Gerhard Szczesny (=  rororo tele ). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-499-60025-0 , About this book, p. 2 .
2. ↑ Murder and Lies: The Covered Up Vatican Scandal. In: Abendblatt.de . November 8, 2003, accessed December 4, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Hoffmann and Campe: Valeska von Roques  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Theodor Wolff Prize: Prize winners 1962 to 1997 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.