Ullrich Fichtner
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Ullrich Fichtner is a senior German journalist and a reporter-at-large of Der Spiegel
magazine.
and Berlin
he worked as a freelance journalist for The Associated Press, covering the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 and the breakdown of the communist-led Eastern German State.
As a Berlin correspondent of the national daily Frankfurter Rundschau
he followed Germany’s way through the reunification process and portrayed Berlin as an emerging capital city of Europe. In 2000, he joined the national weekly Die Zeit
as a junior editor.
In 2001 he was hired as a reporter-at-large by Der Spiegel
, Europe’s largest and most influential news magazine. He contributed largely to Spiegel’s in-depth investigation about the 9/11 terror attacks, focussing on Mohammad Atta’s leading role in the plot.
As a world affairs reporter he intensely covered the Iraq war, portraying the commanding US general David H. Petraeus on several occasions. His war features were widely discussed not only in Europe, but also in the US. Other main stories dealt with the Middle Eastern peace process and the impact of China’s rise.
Based in Paris
, France
, from 2002 through 2010, he is SPIEGEL's New York correspondent since 2011.
He is an author and co-author of several books. His essay “Tellergericht”, a critical survey of Germany’s food culture, helped foster a nation-wide debate over culinary habits.
, Russia. In May 2009 he and a team of colleagues added another Nannen-Preis for a 35-pages-report about the roots and reasons of the financial crisis. Fichtner's third Nannen-Preis came in 2011 for an in-depth story about a German-led military strike against civilians near the Afghan city of Kunduz.
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
magazine.
Work
Ullrich Fichtner started his career during High School, contributing articles to local newspapers. During his university studies in BremenBremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
and Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
he worked as a freelance journalist for The Associated Press, covering the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 and the breakdown of the communist-led Eastern German State.
As a Berlin correspondent of the national daily Frankfurter Rundschau
Frankfurter Rundschau
The Frankfurter Rundschau is a German daily newspaper, based in Frankfurt am Main. It is published every day but Sunday as a city, two regional and one nationwide issues and offers an online edition as well as an e-paper...
he followed Germany’s way through the reunification process and portrayed Berlin as an emerging capital city of Europe. In 2000, he joined the national weekly Die Zeit
Die Zeit
Die Zeit is a German nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism.With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper...
as a junior editor.
In 2001 he was hired as a reporter-at-large by Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
, Europe’s largest and most influential news magazine. He contributed largely to Spiegel’s in-depth investigation about the 9/11 terror attacks, focussing on Mohammad Atta’s leading role in the plot.
As a world affairs reporter he intensely covered the Iraq war, portraying the commanding US general David H. Petraeus on several occasions. His war features were widely discussed not only in Europe, but also in the US. Other main stories dealt with the Middle Eastern peace process and the impact of China’s rise.
Based in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, from 2002 through 2010, he is SPIEGEL's New York correspondent since 2011.
He is an author and co-author of several books. His essay “Tellergericht”, a critical survey of Germany’s food culture, helped foster a nation-wide debate over culinary habits.
Awards
Fichtner’s work has been awarded with all major German prizes for excellence in journalism. In 2000, 2001 and 2004 he won the „Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis“ for the „Best Reportage of the Year“. In 2005, he and a team of colleagues were awarded a “Henri-Nannen-Preis” for their investigation about the terrorist attack on a school in BeslanBeslan
Beslan is a town and the administrative center of Pravoberezhny District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. In terms of population, Beslan is the third largest town in the republic behind Vladikavkaz and Mozdok...
, Russia. In May 2009 he and a team of colleagues added another Nannen-Preis for a 35-pages-report about the roots and reasons of the financial crisis. Fichtner's third Nannen-Preis came in 2011 for an in-depth story about a German-led military strike against civilians near the Afghan city of Kunduz.
Books
- "Inside 9-11: What Really Happened", St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2002, ISBN 031298748X
- "Tellergericht. Die Deutschen und das Essen", Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München 2004, ISBN 3421055866
External links
- America's Hour of Truth: The Risk of Failure in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Afghanistan on the Brink
- Bagdad-Babylon: Hope and Despair in Divided Iraq
- One Man's War on Terror: The American GI from Berlin
- Osama's nightmare: Las Vegas in the Desert
- Spiegel-Interview with General Petraeus: "We have to raise our sights beyond the range of an M-16"
- Jules Crittenden: Sprechen Sie deutsch mit einer tauben Welt