My Life as a War-Correspondent

Leaving Sarajevo Airport on a Hercules C-130. The city was besieged for 3.5 years.

Duration of a ceasefire. Shelling never stopped in Sarajevo.

Playboy Magazine: The story of the Miss Sarajevo contest taking place at the height of the war in the beleaguered city.

Stern Magazine: Covering the massacre in Srebrenica, the worst since world war II in Europe

Stern Magazine: Srebrenica massacre survivors

Focus Magazine: On the front line with Serbian soldiers in Sarajevo.

Serbian sniper shooting at civilians in Sarajevo.

Sarajevo: People hang up sheets to hinder snipers from seeing them.

A normal day in Sarajevo

Focus Magazine: UN peacekeeper shot by a Serbian Sniper in Sarajevo

Focus Magazine: Covering the war between Croats and Bosnians in Mostar

Focus Magazine: another massacre in Sarajevo. A grenade hit a market killing over 80 people.

Farewell: UN peacekeeper shot by a Serbian Sniper (Focus Magazine)

Focus Magazine: UN soldiers taken hostage by the Serbian Army in Sarajevo.

Along with Bosnian snipers in Sarajevo's urban warfare.

Sarajevo Airport: The airlift was called Maybe Airlines by journalists, because you never knew what would happen.

Friedrich Adolf, Bosnian Army Sniper

Food aid for the encircled citizens of Sarajevo

Sarajevo Airport 1993: Will we make it or not?

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Description

My first career was in journalism. I was the youngest chief-correspondent in the wars in Yugoslavia and Algeria.
I reported for some of Germany’s most respected publications such as Spiegel, Stern and Focus. I also covered stories in Burma, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and the U.S. I will post more articles here as soon as I get a chance to scan them. Note, the video was not shot by me. But it sums up 1992 and the beginning of 1993 in Sarajevo very well. This is why I have it here.