Werner Adam

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Werner Adam (* 14). January 1935 in Hamm; † April 9, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main was a German journalist and Germanist.

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Adam grew up without a father who had fallen in World War II. He studied German studies at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. At the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung in Heidelberg, he learned the first steps of journalist activity. At the South Asia Institute Heidelberg, he was able to acquire the necessary knowledge for his first foreign post for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Pakistan from 1968 onwards.

In Pakistan, he witnessed the civil war and the decline of the country. In 1972 he moved to India and reported from New Delhi. From 1973 he also took over the reporting for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The area of his reports included Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. This grueling activity lasted for him until 1978. He then reported from Scandinavia until 1984.

When he was able to work as a correspondent in Moscow from 1984 onwards, he experienced the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the first steps towards a new state in Russia up close until 1989. From 1989 he worked in the central editorial department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, then from 1994 until his retirement in 2001 to head the foreign policy department of the FAZ. Although he subsequently settled in Cyprus, he worked for English newspapers and also for the FAZ on occasion.

Beyond his reporting, he broadly analysed the situation of the countries in which he worked. From these experiences he wrote several books about India, Afghanistan and Russia.

Writings
India. Hanover 1977.
The test case of Bangladesh. On the social and economic situation of the young state. In: Europa-Archiv. contributions and reports. Bonn 1977, 32.
Pakistan's search for identity. The problem of a religious state creation. In: Europa-Archiv. 1978, p.
Under the whites. Youth novel from two worlds. Stuttgart/Esslingen 1984.
The failure of the Hindu Kush. Afghanistan cannot be subjugated. Stuttgart 1989.
Editor: An empire breaks. Reports on the fall of the Soviet Union. Frankfurt/Main 1992.
150 years. 1845–1995 Sparkasse Lemgo. Lemgo 1995.
The New Russia. Putin's departure with a heavy legacy. Vienna 2000.
Unholy Wars in the Heart of Asia. Afghanistan and the consequences. Vienna 2002.
The media. Christoph Bertram, Friedrich Däuble: Who is the Foreign Service serving? Experiences of politics, economy, society. Opladen 2002, pp. 163-170.
New hope for Cyprus. In: The European Roundtable. Issue 2, 2008.
Is Pakistan breaking apart? Die Zeit, No. 51/1970.
Poets fight for Pakistan. Die Zeit, No. 11/1972.

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