Timchenko Viktor Vasilyevich - journalist , writer , editor , TV presenter , expert on Eastern Europe . He was born on February 15, 1953 , in the city of Barvenkovo, Kharkov region ( Ukraine ).
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Biography
Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Kiev State University named after T. Shevchenko . He worked in the newspapers “ Molod Ukrainy ” and “ Kyivska Pravda ”, conducted the program of the Ukrainian television “Happy Page”. One of the first Ukrainian show hosts. Several books of his journalism and prose were published in Ukraine, and the satirical comedy The Sabbath (directed by Mark Nestantiner ) was staged on the stage of the Kiev Theater of Movie Actor.
In 1990, he moved to his wife’s homeland in Germany . He worked as the editor of the department of the newspaper Die Leipziger andere Zeitung ( DAZ ), his own correspondent in Germany for the Ukrainian newspapers Golos Ukrainy , Kievskie Vedomosti , Den . He graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Law of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich , Master of Economics. From 2000 to 2005, he was editor of the Ukrainian edition of the Deutsche Welle radio station in Cologne and Bonn.
It is published in Ukrainian and German periodicals on the themes of Eastern Europe and Germany. Released several books of political analytics:
- “ Ich erwecke Russland mit Blut” - Wladimir Wolfowitsch Shirinowski (“I will wake Russia with blood” - Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky ), Aufbau , Berlin, 1994.
- Rußland nach Jelzin (Russia after Yeltsin ), Rasch und Röhring, Hamburg, 1998.
- Putin und das neue Russland ( Putin and the new Russia), Diederichs, Munich, 2003. This book was published in 2005 in Russian translation.
- Ukraine . Einblicke in den neuen Osten Europas ( Ukraine . Acquaintance with the new east of Europe ). Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin, 2009. The second revised edition (in particular, with a chapter on the Yulia Tymoshenko case) was published in 2012.
- Chodorkowskij : Legenden, Mythen und andere Wahrheiten ( Khodorkovsky : legends, myths and other true stories), Herbig , Munich, 2012. A Czech translation came out in 2013.
- Hour of Nationalism (The Time of Nationalism), Media, Kiev, 2013.
From 2009 to 2011 he was the chief editor of the Russian-language newspaper Integral.
Member of the Union of German Writers ( Verband deutscher Schriftsteller ).