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As Correspondent in Rio

Adrian Geiges has moved to Rio de Janeiro to report as a Foreign Correspondent from Brazil, the country of Soccer World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016. Now he is covering the big protests and the political changes there. The former Stern Beijing Bureau Chief and Spiegel TV Moscow Correspondent is an expert on rising nations.

To World Power With Confucius

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.

One Billion Readers

Now Adrian Geiges is read in the most populous country as well: The Chinese edition of his book „How the World Revolution Once Accidentally Started in the Black Forest“ has been published. The title, as proposed by translator and poet Shi Jingzhou, is „Wo de fenqing suiyue“. Translated literally „Wo de … suiyue“ means „my … time“. „Fenqing“ is a term currently in vogue to signify „active“, and „rebellious“, as well as „young“, and „aggressive“. It quite aptly represents Adrian’s story and the lives of young Chinese today. Not surprisingly the book is a hot issue in the PRC media.

Book Launched in Beijing

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.

In the Sueddeutsche Zeitung Willi Winkler calls it

„a book that is at times hilariously funny, at times irreconcilably sad“. He writes: „Geiges has risked a lot with his book.“

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http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/393045