Thomas Fasbender (born 13 March 1957
in
Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German journalist and author.
Life
Thomas Fasbender studied law and later switched to philosophy.
He joined the
Corps Borussia Bonn in 1979.
In 1986, he completed his PhD at the
University of Bayreuth with a thesis on
Thomas Carlyle.
After a newspaper traineeship in
Lower Bavaria, he was promoted to political and economic editor. He worked as press officer for a trade fair company and as assistant to the CEO with an electrical equipment multinational.
For the same company Fasbender moved to Moscow in 1992. He was involved in the restructuring and liquidation of joint ventures founded during Soviet times. As managing director of a Russian subsidiary, he set up local production facilities. In 1999 he became self-employed as partner in a
spinning and weaving mill on the
Volga. In Moscow, starting 2003, he operated a
corporate fleet management company.
In 2015 he returned to
Berlin. From 2016 to 2018 he advised the Berlin-based
Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute.
From 2019, in his RT DE 15-minute, at times sarcastical weekly format ''Fasbenders Woche'', he commented on a wide range of political subjects. His talk show format ''Fasbender im Gespräch'' presented German-speaking personalities such as
Norbert Häring
Norbert Häring is an economist and business journalist. Since 2002 he has reported on finance and economics for the German business newspaper ''Handelsblatt''.
Life
He is the author (with Olaf Storbeck) of the book ''Ökonomie 2.0'' which was a ...
,
Roland Koch,
Haralampi G. Oroschakoff
Haralampi G. Oroschakoff (Russian: Харлампий Г. Орешаков; * May 23, 1955 in Sofia) is an Austrian painter, writer and publisher. He is considered a pioneer of the East-West dialogue in art and a reviver of the reception of Ea ...
,
Roger Köppel,
Hans-Joachim Frey,
Maria Zakharova,
Georg Pazderski,
Tuvia Tenenbom,
Dieter Stein
Dieter Stein (born 1967 in Ingolstadt) is a German journalist, publisher, editor-in-chief and founder of the right wing newspaper ''Junge Freiheit''. He is associated with the German New Right.
Stein grew up in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg an ...
,
Alexander Neu
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Life
Alex ...
,
Billy Six
Billy Six (born 24 December 1986 in East Berlin, East Germany) is a German journalist, political analyst, activist
and YouTuber. Six is known for reporting from conflict zones including Central Africa, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, Ukrain ...
and others.
His cooperation with RT ended with the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
. Since 2023, he writes for the daily
Berliner Zeitung.
Fasbender wrote a Putin biography that was reviewed in several newspapers, including
Counter-Currents,
Wiener Zeitung, Bibliothek des Konservatismus, Berliner Kriminalitätszeitung,
Junge Freiheit, and Online Merker.
Fasbender is married and has 5 children.
Book publications
* ''Das unheimliche Jahrhundert. Vor der Zeitenwende'', Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung, Landt Verlag, 2022,
* ''Wladimir W. Putin. Eine politische Biographie'', Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung, Landt Verlag, 2022,
* ''Die AfD und die Klimafrage'', Ed. Konrad Adam, Gerhard Hess Verlag, 2019,
* ''Kinderlieb'', Roman, Lichtschlag Reihe Literatur, 2016,
* ''Freiheit statt Demokratie. Russlands Weg und die Illusionen des Westens'', Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2014,
* ''Thomas Carlyle: Idealistische Geschichtssicht und visionäres Heldenideal'', Königshausen u. Neumann, 1989,
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External links
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1957 births
Living people
German male journalists
German newspaper journalists
German male writers
20th-century German journalists
21st-century German journalists
RT (TV network) people