Journalism in Germany: interview with Ulrike Schleicher
Ulrike Schleicher is a German journalist. Currently, she lives in Ulm and writes about local issues for the Südwest Presse, one of the most important regional newspaper in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Her work includes a-four-years international experience in Israel, where she has lived and fed the German press with information about the local life and the issues surrounding the Israeli and Palestinian people.
Many of her articles are published on Qantara, a German website that promotes the dialogue with the Islamic world, as well in Deutsche Welle and the German Press Agency — DPA. Below you can read an interview with Ulrike Schleicher about journalism in her country and her experience regarding these concerns.
Enio Moraes Júnior — From a political point of view, how did the Fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, interfere with German journalism?
Ulrike Schleicher — I cannot really answer this question since I was not yet a journalist in these times. I was just a student. But a few years later, we had meetings and seminars with colleagues from the east of Germany. I remember that we were wondering about their strange questions. For example, how to cover politics, what is appropriate, what is allowed? They simply were very cautious and a bit anxious. And I remember they had hard times since many of…
