As the Orient Magazine “Zenith” some time ago celebrated its tenth anniversary, was of course Peter Scholl-Latour guest. You’ve said “Zenith” Publisher Daniel Gerlach, the issue really only set up to, the man who not only explained but the Germans for decades, especially the Arab world, finally opposing it. Obviously this was not successful. But Scholl-Latour waved. That is not anything important, he said. What you need are “gentlemen’s adventurer” – ie people like him
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author. Lena Bopp, born in 1979, editor of the features section
Peter Scholl-Latour, who came in Bochum to the world and in the Swiss Fribourg attended a Jesuit boarding school, was actually someone whose reports and books all countries were especially so interesting, because he succeeded as few to meet the powerful as well as the ordinary people at eye level. He won their confidence. So he spun for decades a network of contacts that life gave him access to those people and regions that until now, although might have been alien to the Germans, but nevertheless influenced their lives.
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is unforgettable in this sense, of course, the journey that took Scholl-Latour on February 1, 1978 when he flew with the Ayatollah Khomeini from Paris to Tehran – in the airplane, which also houses the elaborate at least in broad outline new constitution should have been for Iran. A willingness to take current events in inspection, led Scholl-Latour but even in old age, for example, even to Syria, where he Bashar al-Assad interviewed in late 2011. Not that you would know the secrets in this kind of conversations such people, he said later. He wanted to make just a picture of Assad’s state.
From his interlocutors in the Middle East but also in Africa, where he worked as a foreign correspondent at the beginning of his journalistic career, and in Asia Scholl-Latour has been praised for this unprejudiced curiosity often. In Germany, however, he has made with his published in various newspapers and television reports, analysis and commentary for the first ever created both interest and understanding of the importance of so many political and social conflicts.
His book “Death in the rice field” over the Indochina War, which was released in 1979, is one with 1.3 million copies sold to date to the best-selling non-fiction books in the country. Numerous other non-fiction books followed, numerous awards as well. Whenever there was a need for clarification in the past few years – it is about Syria, Libya, Egypt, but also through the Balkans, Colombia and Mongolia – always has been questioned Scholl-Latour
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This came to meet him, that he was seldom at a loss for a clear word. Early on, he has about the invasion of Iraq as America’s “Waterloo” refers to the “coalition against terror” criticized that was getting into with the Saudis and the Egyptians under Mubarak, and expressed doubts about the success of the 1993 Oslo peace process. His judgments were often influenced by what he had experienced himself, they were absolutely, and thus again to all those also an eyesore that would have in this country have liked a bit more differentiated. A non-small crowd especially by younger scholars of Islam has therefore always executed anew at Scholl-Latour. But a bow to make it – no one could afford
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for a more detailed obituary read in the Monday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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