Werner Adam

Werner Adam (born January 14, 1935 in Hamm ; † April 9, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German journalist and Germanist .

Life

Adam grew up without a father, who died in World War II . He studied German at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . At the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung in Heidelberg he learned the first steps in journalism. At the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg he was able to acquire the necessary knowledge for his first foreign post for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Pakistan from 1968.

In Pakistan he witnessed the civil war and the decline of the country. In 1972 he moved to India and reported from New Delhi . From 1973 he also took over reporting for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The area of ​​his reports included Afghanistan , India , Iran , Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh . This stressful activity lasted for him until 1978. After that he reported from Scandinavia until 1984.

When he was able to work as a correspondent in Moscow from 1984 , he experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union and the first steps towards a new state of Russia at close quarters until 1989 . From 1989 he worked in the central editorial office of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and then from 1994 until his retirement in 2001 he headed the foreign policy department of the FAZ. Although he then settled in Cyprus , he occasionally continued to work for English newspapers and also for the FAZ.

In addition to his reporting, he broadly analyzed the situation in the countries in which he worked. From this experience he wrote several books on India, Afghanistan and Russia.

Fonts

• India . Hanover 1977
• The test case Bangladesh. On the social and economic situation of the young state . In: Europa-Archiv . Posts and reports . Bonn 1977, p. 32
• Pakistan's search for identity. On the problem of a religious state creation . In: Europa-Archiv . 1978, p. 33
• Got among the whites. Youth novel from two worlds . Stuttgart / Esslingen 1984
• The failure in the Hindu Kush. Afghanistan cannot be subjugated . Stuttgart 1989
• as editor: An empire is falling apart. Reports on the fall of the Soviet Union . Frankfurt / Main 1992
• 150 years. 1845–1995 Sparkasse Lemgo . Lemgo 1995
• The new Russia. Putin's departure with a difficult legacy . Vienna 2000
• Unholy wars in the heart of Asia. Afghanistan and the consequences . Vienna 2002
• The media . In: Christoph Bertram, Friedrich Däuble: Whom does the Foreign Service serve? Experiences from politics, economy, society . Opladen 2002, pp. 163-170
• New hope for Cyprus . In: European Rundschau . Issue 2, 2008
• Is Pakistan falling apart? . In: Die Zeit , No. 51/1970.
• Poets fight for Pakistan . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1972.

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Adam in the catalog of the German National Library
• Werner Adam in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• How the Russian secret service promoted "vigilance"
• There are many answers to the question about the future of Russia
• Interview with the President of the Republic of Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? Lübeck 1993.
2. ↑ Theatrical Version : Profound Newsman - On the death of Werner Adam . In: FAZ , April 11, 2009.