Hasnain Kazim

Hasnain Kazim Niels (* October 19, 1974 in Oldenburg ) is a German journalist. He is the winner of the CNN Journalist Award 2009.

Kazim is the son of Indian- Pakistani parents. His father was a sailor, and his mother worked as a translator. Kazim has a sister. After many unsuccessful efforts of his family by a naturalization Kazim is a German citizen since 1990. He grew up in Hollern to the Old Country. In Stade Kazim visited the Vincent -Lübeck school. After leaving school, he studied political science. Kazim is married.

Hasnain Kazim in 1994 joined as a cadet in the German Navy.

For the FDP, he reached as a candidate in the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1998 in the then Constituency 70 a personal return of 2.7 per cent of the primary vote. Immediately after the election, he resigned from the FDP, because he aspired to work as a journalist.

His journalistic career began Kazim as a freelancer when Stader Tageblatt. After that he worked among others for the Heilbronner Stimme and for the news agency dpa. Since 2006 he worked as an editor with the news website Spiegel Online. Since July 2009 he has been South Asia Correspondent of Spiegel Online and the news magazine Der Spiegel.

Kazim was in 2009 with the CNN Journalist Award for his report "Attack on Mumbai - protocol of a murderous campaign " excellent. In it, he reconstructed the terrorist attack on the Indian city in 2008. He is the author of the book kale and curry, which deals with immigration to Germany from his personal point of view.

Since late 2010, he is the godfather of Vincent -Lübeck High School in Stade in the school project without Racism - School with Courage.