- Ullrich Fichtner
Ullrich Fichtner (*
May 8 1965 in Hof,Germany ) is a senior German journalist and a reporter-at-large ofDer Spiegel magazine.Work
Ullrich Fichtner started his career during High School, contributing articles to local newspapers. During his university studies in
Bremen andBerlin he worked as a freelance journalist forThe 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 weeklyDie 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 onMohammad 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.Since 2003 Fichtner is based in
Paris ,France .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
Beslan , Russia.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 3421055866External links
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,499154,00.html Bagdad-Babylon: Hope and Despair in Divided Iraq]
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,539564,00.html One Man's War on Terror: The American GI from Berlin]
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,437017,00.html Osama's nightmare: Las Vegas in the Desert]
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,455199,00.html Spiegel-Interview with General Petraeus: "We have to raise our sights beyond the range of an M-16"]
* [http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/08/14/sprechen-sie-deutsches-mit-einer-tauben-welt/ Jules Crittenden: Sprechen Sie deutsch mit einer tauben Welt]
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