Adrian Geiges

Adrian Geiges ( born September 3, 1960 in Basel, Switzerland ) is a German writer and journalist.

Life

Adrian Geiges is the son of the photographer Leif Geiges. He grew up in Staufen im Breisgau on. As a teenager, he joined the Socialist German Workers' Youth ( SDAJ ) and entered 1976, the German Communist Party ( DKP) in. In 1979 he was living " undercover" for a year in the GDR, where he also learned in a training ground in Berlin and, according wanted to be a " professional revolutionary ." After high school he began to study journalism, politics and history at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, the study, however, broke off after a few semesters and completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant. As DKP official and reporter for the communist youth magazine Elan he could the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Cuba and Nicaragua travel. In the late 1980s he took distance from communism. He learned several months Russian at the Ruhr- University Bochum and then worked as a journalist since 1990 for RTL explosives and mirror TV in Moscow and for another client and later in New York City.

After a one -year Chinese language course in China, he built as managing the magazine business of Bertelsmann in China on. From the summer of 2004 to 2008, Adrian Geiges Asia correspondent of the star in Beijing. From 2009, he joined the team of Stefan Aust in Hamburg, which is developing a new magazine and produced documentaries.

Since 2013 Adrian Geiges lives in Rio de Janeiro, where he among other things, as a correspondent and documentary filmmaker works for RTL and WDR.

Adrian Geiges is the author of several books.

Works

  • Brazil is burning. Quadriga 2014
  • With Confucius as a world power ( together with Stefan Aust ). Quadriga 2012
  • Instructions for Beijing and Shanghai. Piper 2009
  • China. The history of the new world power. Dtv Premium 2009
  • How the World Revolution once started accidentally in the Black Forest, Chinese edition. New Star Press 2009
  • How the World Revolution once started accidentally in the Black Forest. Eichborn 2007
  • Russia explosives (together with Andre Zalbertus ). vgs 1994
  • Love is not on the plan (together with Tatjana Suworowa ), Japanese edition. JICC 1992
  • Love is not on the plan (together with Tatjana Suworowa ), Russian edition. Sobesednik 1990
  • Revolution without shots, Turkish edition, Iletisim Yayinlari, 1990
  • Love is not on the plan (together with Tatjana Suworowa ). Wolfgang Krüger / S. Fischer 1989
  • Revolution without shots. Pahl - Rugenstein 1988
  • China on the move. Pahl - Rugenstein 1987
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