Charlotte Wiedemann
German writer
Charlotte Wiedemann (born 1954 in Mönchengladbach, West Germany) is a German prize-winning journalist and author. She is mainly known for her reports and essays as freelance journalist for German and Swiss-German news media. Based on her frequent travels to African and Middle Eastern countries, she also authored several non-fiction books. In these, she discussed the perception of political events such as the Holocaust and the Nakba, changes in the political situation in Mali, Iran and North Africa, as well as Western domination and White journalists' views on non-White societies.
Life and career
Following her M.A. in social pedagogy, sociology, and political science from the University of Göttingen, Wiedemann attended the Hamburg School of Journalism. After her first experience as editor at a local newspaper, she worked as political correspondent and reporter in Bonn, Hamburg and Berlin for publications such as Stern, Die Woche and die tageszeitung. From 1999 to 2003, Wiedemann lived on Penang Island in Malaysia, contributing reports from across Southeast Asia for German and Swiss media outlets such as Die Zeit, Le Monde diplomatique, German edition and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Wiedemann has also worked as lecturer in journalism training programmes, mainly at the German Protestant School for Journalists in Berlin, but also at the University of Erfurt and the Technical University of Dortmund. In particular, she lectured on journalists' perception of non-European cultures and on reporting about Islamic societies.
Among others, Wiedemann wrote reports about the so-called Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen.
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