- Adrian Geiges
Adrian Geiges (b.
September 3 1960 , inBasel, Switzerland ) is a German writer and journalist.Life
Adrian Geiges is a former professional revolutionary from the Black Forest in southern Germany who over time turned into the CEO of the Chinese subsidiary of the German publishing giant Bertelsmann. He writes in his autobiography “How the World Revolution Once Accidentally Started in the Black Forest“ how he transformed from a West German communist to a capitalist, ironically in the People’s Republic of China. Among other episodes he describes his yearlong training at a secret cadre school in former communist East Germany, and his adventures during the coup attempt against former soviet leader Gorbachev in Moscow in 1991. In his autobiography he writes about his moral conflicts which were typical of the many in his generation who started as extreme leftists and evolved at breakneck speed into aggressive capitalists. These developments in Geiges’ political and work commitments led to far reaching changes in his personal life, including in his love and sex life.
In German media his book has been seen as a biography of a lost generation that dreamed of a better future without noticing the present. The leading German newspaper "Suedeutsche Zeitung" calls it a book "that sometimes lets you roar with laughter and sometimes makes you sad."
Since the summer 2004 Adrian Geiges has been the Beijing Correspondent of the leading German weekly newsmagazine „stern“. Before that he founded the Chinese enterprise of G+J, the Bertelsmann corporation’s magazine division. In the 1990s he had worked as a television reporter for Spiegel TV and RTL in Moscow and New York. He has studied Chinese and Russian.
Works
* "How the World Revolution Once Accidentally Started in the Black Forest." Eichborn 2007
* "Russia Explosive" (together with Andre Zalbertus). vgs 1994
* "Love is Not on the State Plan" (together with Tatjana Suworowa), Japanese Edition. JICC 1992
* "Love is Not on the State Plan" (together with Tatjana Suworowa ), Russian Edition. Sobesednik 1990
* "Revolution Without Shooting", Turkish Edition, Iletisim Yayinlari, 1990
* "Love is Not on the State Plan" (together with Tatjana Suworowa). Wolfgang Krüger/S.Fischer 1989
* "Revolution Without Shooting". Pahl-Rugenstein 1988
* "Awakening China". Pahl-Rugenstein 1987References
*cite news |title=Wenn der Genosse mit der Genossin |url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,497724,00.html |work=
Der Spiegel |date=2007-08-02 |accessdate=2008-05-09
*cite news |title=Der Weg von potemkinschen Dörfern in postkommunistische Betten |url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/buecher/788258.html |work=Tages Anzeiger |date=2007-09-06 |accessdate=2008-05-09External links
* [http://www.adriangeiges.com Adrian Geiges' Official Website]
* [http://www.stern.de/impressum]
* [http://www.guj.de/index.php4?/de/presse/nachrichten/nachrichten.php4]
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