Bettina Gaus (5 December 1956 – 27 October 2021) was a German journalist.

Life

Gaus was born in

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in December 1956, the daughter of Erika Gaus and publicist and diplomat

Günter Gaus Günter Gaus (23 November 1929 – 14 May 2004) was a prominent German journalist-commentator who became a diplomat and (very briefly) a regional politician in Berlin. Once he had moved on – as he probably assumed, permanently – from the wor ...

. She attended the

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in Munich and studied

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at the

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there. In 1979 she completed an

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at the

Hamburger Morgenpost The ''Hamburger Morgenpost'' (Hamburg Morning Post) (also known as Mopo) is a daily German newspaper published in Hamburg in tabloid format. As of 2006 the ''Hamburger Morgenpost'' was the second-largest newspaper in Hamburg after '' Bild Zeitu ...

, after which she worked for the Munich

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, among others. From 1983 to 1989 she was political editor at the German-language program of

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. From 1989 to 1996, she reported out of

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on Africa topics for the

tageszeitung ''Die Tageszeitung'' (, “The Daily Newspaper”), is counted as being one of modern Germany's most important newspapers and amongst the top seven. taz is stylized as ''die tageszeitung'' and commonly referred to as ''taz'', is a cooperative-own ...

(taz), ARD stations and news agencies. From 1996 to 1999 Gaus headed the parliamentary office of the ''taz'', since then she had been the political correspondent of the newspaper until 2021. Since 2021, she had been writing

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for the magazine

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. She died in

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on 27 October 2021, at the age of 64.taz-Autorin Bettina Gaus gestorben
/ref> She leaves behind a daughter, Nora Mbagathi, born to Bettina Gaus and Stanley Mbagathi in Cologne in 1987.

Publications

*''Die scheinheilige Republik. Das Ende der demokratischen Streitkultur.'' DVA, Stuttgart/München 2000, , aktualisierte Ausgabe: dtv, München 2002, . *''Frontberichte. Die Macht der Medien in Zeiten des Krieges.'' Campus, Frankfurt/New York 2004, . *''Auf der Suche nach Amerika. Begegnungen mit einem fremden Land.'' Eichborn, Frankfurt 2008, . *''Der unterschätzte Kontinent. Reise zur Mittelschicht Afrikas.'' Eichborn, Frankfurt 2011, .

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* 1956 births 2021 deaths 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists 20th-century German women writers 21st-century German women writers Journalists from Munich German newspaper journalists Die Tageszeitung people {{Germany-journalist-stub