Cordt Georg Wilhelm Schnibben (born 28 July 1952 in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

) is a German journalist.

Life

Both Schnibben's father Georg and his mother Elfriede Schnibben who died when he was twelve years old, were dedicated

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s. Only after the death of his father did Schnibben learn that both of his parents were involved shortly before the war ended in a politically motivated murder of an unarmed civilian, in which the father was a volunteer of " Freikorps Adolf Hitler" to which the main perpetrators belonged, as Schnibben reported in a detailed essay in the magazine ''Der Spiegel'' in April 2014.Cordt Schnibben: ''Mein Vater, ein Werwolf.'' In: ''Der Spiegel'', 14 April 2014, p. 62ff Schnibben was a student at Bremen High School at Barkhof. He was influenced by the 1968 movement, and he demonstrated against the German emergency legislation (adopted on 30 May 1968), joined the German Communist Party and spent a year studying social sciences at the Franz Mehring Institute in Berlin-Biesdorf in East Berlin. After that academic year he started studying economics at the

University of Bremen The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategi ...

. For a time he worked as a copywriter, and after two tries was accepted into the prestigious

Henri-Nannen-Schule The Henri-Nannen-Schule, formerly ''Hamburger Journalistenschule'', is the journalist school of Europe's largest publishing house, Gruner + Jahr ( ''Brigitte'', ''GEO'', ''Stern''), German weekly ''Die Zeit'' and national news magazine ''Der Spi ...

. Between 1984 and 1988 he was an editor at the weekly German newspaper ''

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''. Since then he has worked with the magazine ''

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'', where he is currently one of the two heads of the editorial board. In 1991, Schnibben wrote an article in ''Der Spiegel'' on extreme right-wing violence in Germany and the arson attack on the asylum center in Hunxe. Schnibben founded the German Reporter Forum in 2007 together with the journalists Stephan Lebert and Ariel Hauptmeier. Schnibben has received numerous German journalism awards.

Works

* ''Neues Deutschland. Seltsame Berichte aus der Welt der Bundesbürger''. 1988, . * ''Macht und Machenschaften: die Wahrheitsfindung in der Barschel-Affäre''; mit Volker Skierka. 1989, . * ''Reklamerepublik: Seltsame Berichte zur Lage der vierten Gewalt''. 1994, . * ''Saigon export. Vietnams Comeback. Seltsame Berichte aus einem neueröffneten Land.'' 1989, . * ''Seltsames Deutschland: Berichte aus der Welt der Bundesbürger''. 1992, . * ''Che Guevara und andere Helden''. 1997, . * ''11. September 2001: Geschichte eines Terrorangriffs''; mit

Stefan Aust Stefan Aust (; born 1 July 1946) is a German journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine ''Der Spiegel'' from 1994 to February 2008 and has been the publisher of the conservative leading ''Die Welt'' newspaper since 2014 ...

. 2002, . * ''Irak: Geschichte eines modernen Krieges''; mit Stefan Aust. 2003, . * ''Operation Rot-Grün: Geschichte eines politischen Abenteuers''. 2005, . * ''Tsunami: Geschichte eines Weltbebens''. 2005, . * ''I can't get no: Ein paar 68er treffen sich wieder und rechnen ab''; mit Irmela Hannover. 2007, . *

, Titelthema 16/2014 (14. April 2014): ''Mein Vater, der Mörder''.

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