The new book of Adrian Geiges „Brazil is Burning“ has been published in Germany. It offers a first hand view: The author has been living in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. He spent time with native people in their longhouses in the Amazon region. He met former drug gangsters, reported on a brutal ritual murder of a former child soldier, and visited an assembly line at the Volkswagen factory in São Paulo. In the middle of the jungle, he interviewed Glenn Greenwald, the associate of Edward Snowden. Geiges presents two countries in one: On the one hand, there are drug gangs, inflation, and corruption. On the other hand, there is the resistance to hardships, the limitless joy of life and a growing self-confidence of the younger generation.

This is the title of the new book on China by Stefan Aust, longtime editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel and author of bestsellers like „The Baader Meinhof Complex“, and Adrian Geiges, for many years Beijing bureau chief of the German weekly Stern. See „Books“ for further information.

She went from East to West, he took the opposite direction: Hung Huang, CEO of China Interactive Media Group and as a TV and radio host often called „the Oprah of China“, daughter of Mao’s English teacher, beginning of the 1970s was sent as a „little red guard“ to New York City. Adrian Geiges, long-time correspondent of German weekly Stern in Beijing, started as a young revolutionary in West Germany, was secretly trained at a cadre school in East Germany, but later became a capitalist, CEO for the Chinese magazines of German Media Empire Bertelsmann. She dedicated the February issue of her lifestyle magazine iLook to the topic „The World is Flat“. In the same month his book „Wo de fenqing suiyue“, which tells his story, has been published in China. Hung Huang and Adrian Geiges discussed February 5 in the Beijing art district 798. More than 70 Chinese journalists attended and wanted to know everything about the book and the lives of these two adventurers.