Elmar Theveßen (born 3 June 1967) is a German journalist and author.

Life

Born in

Viersen Viersen (; ) is the capital of the Viersen (district), district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Viersen is situated approximately 8 km north-west of Mönchengladbach, 15 km south-west of Krefeld and 20 km ...

, Theveßen studied history, political science and German studies at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. Also he studied

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and journalism at the

American University The American University (AU or American) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90-acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spri ...

in Washington, D.C.. From 1991 to 1995 Theveßen was a tv-journalist for politics in ZDF-studio Bonn. Until 2001 Theveßen worked as a tv-journalist for ZDF-studio in Washington, D.C. From 2001 to 2002 he worked as a tv-journalist for ''Frontal21'' at ZDF. From 2003 until 2007 Theveßen was a

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for ZDF-studio „Aktuelles" in Berlin. and then between 2007 and February 2019 its chief editor. Theveßen is a self-proclaimed expert for terrorism at

ZDF ZDF (), short for (; ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany ( ...

, for example in the analysis of the 2016 Chemnitz terrorism plot. Since March 2019 Theveßen has been the director of the ZDF-studio in Washington. D.C. Theveßen is member of the Atlantik-Brücke.

Reception

Elmar Theveßen is criticized by other journalists for his numerous statements in which Elmar Theveßen called

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a "fascist", a "malignant narcissist", an "autocrat who wants to destroy American democracy with a wrecking ball" and making comparisons to

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

and

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.Heidenheimer Zeitung: Wie Elmar Theveßen die Stimmung in den USA vor der Präsidentschaftswahl einschätzt. (german)
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Literature

* 2002: ''Schläfer mitten unter uns''. Droemer, München 2002; aktualisierte Taschenbuchausgabe: Knaur, Munich 2004, . * 2004: ''Die Bush-Bilanz. Wie der US-Präsident sein Land und die Welt betrogen hat''. (''The Bush record. How the US President betrayed his country and the world''.) Droemer, München 2004, . * 2005: ''Terroralarm. Deutschland und die islamistische Bedrohung''. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2005, . * 2009: ''Al-Qaida. Wissen was stimmt''. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, . * 2011: ''Nine-Eleven. Der Tag, der die Welt veränderte''. Propyläen, Berlin 2011, . * 2016: ''Terror in Deutschland. Die tödliche Strategie der Islamisten''. Piper, München 2016, . * 2020 ''Die Zerstörung Amerikas: Wie Donald Trump sein Land und die Welt für immer verändert''. (''The Destruction of America: How Donald Trump changed his country and the world forever''.) Piper, München 2020, .

Awards

* 1994: Medienpreis by German Bundestag * 1996: Nominination for Telestar * 1998, 2002, 2003: radio-, tv- and New-Media-Award by RIAS-Commission * 2011: Bul le Mérite by Bundes Deutscher Kriminalbeamter * 2012:

Deutscher Fernsehpreis The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (''German Television Award'') is an annual German award for television programming, created in 1999, by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL (German TV channel), RTL and Sat.1. It was created to be an equivalen ...

for documentation ''9/11''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Theveßen, Elmar 1967 births People from Viersen German television reporters and correspondents German broadcast news analysts German political journalists German male journalists German television journalists 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists ZDF people Living people