Thomas Kielinger

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Thomas Kielinger OBE (born July 1940 in Danzig) is a German journalist, political commentator and author. Since 1998 he has been the London correspondent for Die Welt.

Biography

Kielinger was born in 1940 in Danzig (modern day Gdańsk in Poland), the last of six children. He studied at the Universities of Münster and Bochum (where he took a graduate degree), as well as the University of Cardiff where he stayed for three years as a Lector in the German department.[1]

Career

In 1971 he joined the German daily national newspaper Die Welt in Hamburg as its literary critic. In 1977, he was made Die Welt's chief correspondent in Washington DC to coincide with the inauguration of the United States President Jimmy Carter, and later in the era of Ronald Reagan.

After his time in the USA, he became Editor-in-Chief of the German weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur from 1985 to 1994. From 1994 to 1998 he pursued his own business as writer, broadcaster and political consultant. In 1998 he was invited to rejoin Die Welt, to become the paper's correspondent in London, a position he still holds.[1]

Kielinger was for many years on the jury of the Theodor-Wolff-Prize, and a jury member of the Lenkungsaussschusses at the Königswinter Conference. He is a regular panelist on the BBC News weekly news discussion programme featuring a roundtable panel of foreign and British journalists Dateline London.

Several books testify to his abiding interest in Anglo-German history: Crossroads and Roundabouts: Junctions in German-British Relations (1997), Großbritannien, a country portrait as part of a series called "Die Deutschen und ihre Nachbarn” (The Germans and Their Neighbours, 2009), as well as a biography of the Queen, Elizabeth II - Das Leben der Queen (2011; 3rd edition, July 2012). The latter was also favourably reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, where it was stated that "amid all the warm words about the Queen’s commitment to duty, it is Thomas Kielinger who comes closest to explaining what motivates Elizabeth II".[2]

In 2014 Kielinger added another biography to his list of publications: Winston Churchill – Der späte Held (Winston Churchill – The Late Hero), which reached its 4th edition in 2015. It is also available in an audio version (11 CDs), read by performer and author Gerd Heidenreich.

Awards

  • 2001 Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
  • 1995 Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
  • 1993 Honorary Fellow of the Cardiff School of Journalism[1]
  • 1990 Carlo-Schmid prize, together with Gerhard v. Glinski
  • 1984 Theodor-Wolff prize

Publications

References

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External links

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