Karl-Heinz Smuda

Karl -Heinz Smuda ( born January 24, 1961 in Eschweiler ) is a German ghost writer, editor and publisher.

Life

Smuda started in 1976 as a writer and presenter of the WDR / NDR children broadcasting red light and 1978 as a regional correspondent for the Eurogio Aachen of the Belgian Rundfunk ( BRF). There followed a period abroad as editor of the German department of Vatican Radio in Rome ( 1980/1982 ). From 1983 to 1987 Smuda learned at Carl Ludwig Naumann ( RWTH Aachen University / Institute of Linguistics; Leibniz University Hannover) professional speaking techniques for radio and television. At the same time next to the ASTA chairs it Smuda teachers included Social Sciences / Social Sciences and Humanities, 1986-1989 Lecturer at the University of Wuppertal. Smuda worked in 1994 in the media and acceptance research in the media department of the directorship of the West German Radio Cologne ( WDR), among other things involved in the introduction of ARD-/ZDF-Videotextes and acceptance analysis before the first broadcast of the series linden street (ARD) on 8 December 1985.

International activities

After studying Smuda worked from 1987 at ZDF/3sat and the Germany radio. In November 1989 he was in for the DLF department " Science and Education" in the GDR Foreign Ministry accredited DLF travel correspondent in Leipzig, travel correspondent for the national radio broadcasting in 1994 in Croatia as an accredited journalist companion of Pope John Paul II in Zagreb, travel correspondent for Germany radios Skopje / Macedonia during the Kosovo war (1999) and correspondent during the UN mission (2000) in Dili / East Timor and Darwin / Australia. He was a fellow of the Heinz Kühn Foundation of North Rhine -Westphalia for the work at the Philippine television in Manila ( 1991). For the current policy and environmental reporting he has reported as a writer and reporter for the radio station ARD on the eruption of the volcano Mount Pinatubo from Manila. Smuda was from 1991 to 1994 in the editorial " Religion and Society " of the Germany radio in Cologne. From 1994 to 1996 were his duties in the editorial section " Literature and Art " at the Germany radio. There he worked mainly contemporary historical themes, such as the historical conflict over the South Tyrol's autonomy within the framework of a European series of Bolzano. He also worked in discussion programs in the morning live in Germany radio on topics such as the " trophy art " or via the IM state security and their dealing with the past from Neustrelitz / Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.

In Germany Radio Berlin (now Germany Kultur ) Smuda has in the years 1996/97 as a leader of the political discussion program exchange and the Germany radio Journal of the morning - worked forum Culture ( 1993-1995). In 1994 he was a staff editor at WDR in Cologne ( WDR 2 wave editors ), 1996 in the country's political Studio Berlin of Germany radio reporters of the German capital. 1997 ( to 2003) Smuda was appointed correspondents / Studio Head of Germany radios in Brandenburg. His focus was on the state, national and European policy. As a candidate Karl -Heinz Smuda was proposed in 2003 for the position of program director at radio Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg, but had no prospects for a majority of the Broadcasting of the RBB. In the same year he declined the offer of the former chairman Lothar Bisky, spokesman for the PDS, and later the Left to be, now and turned full time to the editing and ghostwriting to.

2005 Smuda spokesman for the German NATO contingent in Siauliai (Lithuania ), July, and in September 2005, to secure the EU's external border. He was responsible for international crisis management after the crash of a Russian military machine on the territory of Lithuania. Meanwhile Smuda has worked on as a reporter and writer (politics ) for the radio in Germany and in Berlin and commentator for the news channel N24 ( television). As of November 2003, he has temporarily with the rank of Major ( the reserve) and press staff officer in the press office of the 4th Air Division in Aurich / Ostfriesland (Press and Public Relations Bundeswehr Luftwaffe ) had worked.

Trained for use in crisis regions was Smuda in June 2005 in the Franconian mutton castle and at the Staff College in Hamburg. In 2007, he was Head of Press and Public Relations in the Forces Operations Command Air Forces (NATO units) in Kalkar / Niederrhein. The tasks of the journalists belonged to the Chefredakteurs and Konzeptentwicklers the zweisprachigen Tageszeitung echo of German Armed Forces, NATO and the EU in May 2006 for readers from 16 nations ( ELITE 2006) on the Heuberg at Balingen / Baden- Württemberg. His operational work for the Bundeswehr and NATO was Major Karl -Heinz Smuda 2008 for the time being. For the project, e -NATO education and training Karl- Heinz Smuda ( Personal Advisor ) in Norfolk / Virginia is the German NATO general quadrangle as "personal advisor " active.

Together with Karlheinz Viereck and the Berlin lecturer Dirk Henze founded Smuda in 2009 the first Amici Verlag Berlin, which was renamed in May 2010 to Quadrum Publishing House Berlin / Norfolk. The U.S. publishing office is located in Virginia Beach near Norfolk, the German office in Berlin -Wilmersdorf. The publisher is not produced by creative people from Germany and the USA (photographers, layout artists, designers ) books for companies and organizations, but directly to the book trade.

Honors and Awards

• Scholarship from the Heinz Kühn Foundation of the State of North Rhine -Westphalia in 1991 to work as an editor at Philippine television / children's television in Manila
• EU Force Medal, awarded in 2007 by the EU High Representative Javier Solana
• Use medal Federal Ministry of Defence for work as a spokesman for EUFOR RD Congo in Kinshasa / Democratic Republic of Congo