Ullrich Fichtner

Ullrich Fichtner ( born May 8, 1965 in Hof ) is a German journalist and author. He is a reporter of the mirror, currently in Paris.

Life

Ullrich Fichtner made ​​after graduating from high school, first as an intern at the Frankenpost in court and then studied until 1994, German, History and Political Science in Bremen and Berlin. During his studies he worked for the Weser -Kurier, the Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) and for the international news agency Associated Press (AP).

His first permanent position led him to turn time in the Berlin office of the AP. In 1994, he was news editor at the Frankfurter Rundschau, as of 1996 one of the FR- correspondents in Berlin. In 2000 he moved to Hamburg at the time the dossier. Since 2001 he has been a reporter for the mirror. With his 2004 book dish. The Germans and the food was known Fichtner a wide audience. In the years 2011/2012 he was a correspondent of the mirror in New York.

Fichtner lives with his family in Paris.

Awards

  • Fichtner was founded in 2000 with the award and the German newspapers, the Theodor Wolff Prize in the category of General and in the same year, The Lost Honour of Friedrich B., appeared as the third winner of the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for his contribution in the FR, excellent. The contribution deals with the psyche of a police officer who is suspended and, despite his rehabilitation professional in the end.
  • He was again third winner of the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for his contribution 2001 The penal colony of Moabit in the time - dossier.
  • 2004 Ullrich Fichtner was awarded the 27th Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for the best German-language reportage. The documentary The Last Stand documented the war in Iraq, in particular the Battle of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
  • In 2005, Fichtner was awarded together with the mirror - Uwe Buse team, Mario Kaiser, Uwe Klussmann, Walter Mayer and Christian Neef the prestigious Henri Nannen Prize for documentary reportage about the terrorist attack by Chechen terrorists on a school in Beslan.
  • In May 2009, Fichtner was again awarded with a mirror team with the Henri Nannen Award, this time for the 35 -page cover story The bank robbery in November 2008, were highlighted in the origins and course of the global financial and economic crisis. The article was also awarded the first time in 2009 awarded the "German reporter price ".
  • The end of 2009, Fichtner was honored together with Beat Balzli Klaus Brinkbäumer, Hauke ​​Goos, Thomas Hüetlin and Christoph Pauly for her report on the American International Group in the mirror as " business editor of the Year 2009" by the magazine medium.
  • 2011 Fichtner received along with ten other editors of the Mirror Henri Nannen Award in the category " particularly comprehensible reporting ( Best Documentary ) " for the piece A German crimes over the air strike in Kunduz.
  • In 2012 he was awarded the Henri Nannen Award in the category Best Documentary in the team with Ferry Batzoglou, Manfred Ertel, Hauke ​​Goos, Ralf Hoppe, Thomas Hüetlin, Guido Mingels, Christian Reiermann, Cordt Schnibben, Christoph Schult, Thomas Schulz and Alexander Smoltczyk for A bomb idea appeared in the mirror.

Works

  • Dish. The Germans and the food. German publishing house, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-421-05586-6.
  • Billion poker. As banks and governments flood the world with money - and make us poor. (Ed.), German publishing house, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04576-8.
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