Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt

Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt , born Wolfgang Schmidt , (* 1979 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German journalist and book author .

He studied political science and linguistics in Berlin , Tübingen and Uppsala and graduated from the German School of Journalism . Wiedmann-Schmidt is (as of April 2020) team leader in the capital city office of the news magazine Der Spiegel . Before that, he worked in the investigative department of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and as an editor for internal security at the Berlin daily newspaper taz . His focus areas are right-wing extremism , Islamism , terrorism and crime . In addition to the taz , Wiedmann-Schmidt wrote for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) , Neon , Das Parlament and Cicero, among others . For research on the Ibiza affair , he and other journalists involved were awarded the German Reporter Prize in 2019 and the Nannen Prize in 2020 . In 2009, 2010 and 2017 he was nominated for the German Reporter Award. 2019 he was with Britta Stuff for a report about two victims of the Berlin Breitscheidplatz for Egon Erwin Kisch priced at s nominated. In 2014 he was on the shortlist for the Henri Nannen Prize for his portrait of the right-wing extremist terrorist Beate Zschäpe .

Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt lives in Berlin .

Publications

• Wolf Schmidt: Frontotemporal dementia: Suddenly there was this mold . In: the daily newspaper. January 6, 2010 (nominated for the German Reporter Award 2010)
• Wolf Schmidt: Young, German, Taliban. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-663-5 ; BpB, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8389-0279-1
  • Interview with Wolf Schmidt: "We need independent advice centers that concerned parents can turn to" by Ramon Schack in Vorwärts , April 17, 2012
  • Terrorists next door , review by Albrecht Metzger in der Zeit , No. 38, September 25, 2012

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Wolf Schmidt at perlentaucher.de
• Author portrait on the website of Ch. Links Verlag
• Entry on the website of the Deutsche Journalistenschule Lehrredaktion 44A
• Author portrait on the website of the news magazine Der Spiegel

Footnotes

1. ↑ Imprint. spiegel.de, accessed on December 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt profile page. zeit.de, accessed on January 21, 2014 . 
3. ^ Reporter Forum: New Journalism. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Nannen Prize 2020: These are the winners. April 30, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 . 
5. ^ Reporter Forum: New Journalism. Retrieved December 14, 2017 . 
6. ↑ List of nominees for the 2019 Nannen Prize. Accessed on May 28, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Wolf Schmidt: The Inconceivable . In: the daily newspaper . April 13, 2013
8. ↑ Shortlist 2014. henri-nannen-preis.de, archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; Retrieved September 20, 2014 .