Lutz kleveman biography

Lutz Kleveman (born 1974) is a German investigative journalist, photographer, and author.
Lutz Kleveman is a German investigative journalist, photographer, and author.
Lutz C. Kleveman, born in 1974, is a non-fiction author and photographer.

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Lutz C. Kleveman, born in 1974, is a non-fiction author and photographer.

Kleveman studied French Literature in Aix-en-Provence and International History at the London School of Economics (LSE).

From 1999 onwards, he worked as a freelance journalist and photographer in the Balkans, West Africa, the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, and the Middle East. He has written and photographed for the Daily Telegraph, Die Zeit, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, Playboy Magazine and various other publications in Germany, Britain, and the States.

Currently, Kleveman is working on a new book and photo projects about North Africa.

Kleveman is the bi-lingual author of several narrative non-fiction books:
SMYRNA IN FLAMMEN: Der Untergang der osmanischen Metropole 1922 und seinen Folgen für Europa (Berlin, Aufbau, 2022)
LEMBERG: Die vergessene Mitte Europas (Berlin, Aufbau, 2017)
WANDERJAHRE: A Reporter’s Journey through a Mad World (London, White Glove, 2014)
KRIEGSGEFANGEN: Meine deutsche Spurensuche (Munich, Siedler, 2011)
THE NEW GREAT GAME: Blood and Oil in Central Asia (New York and London, Grove

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Wanderjahre: A Reporter's Journey in a Mad World

Foreign correspondent Lutz Kleveman has reported from some of the world's most perilous conflict zones, from the Balkans to the Middle East.

In 'Wanderjahre', Kleveman retraces his career during the turbulent years 2000 to 2008, beginning with his first job for the Daily Telegraph as a happy-go-lucky stringer in Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and Chechnya, covering the post 9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the drug wars in Colombia and South East Asia, and ending in the surreal madness of North Korea.

War-weary, Kleveman begins to question how much of his restless attraction to conflict zones was rooted in his family history. Turning his sharp journalistic eye inward, he investigates the story of his mysterious late grandfather Hans-Heinrich who, as a young air force pilot in WWI, was shot down over Russia, and later became a high-ranking army officer in Hitler's Wehrmacht.

Published to critical acclaim in Germany, 'Wanderjahre' is a gripping personal memoir and a compelling coming-of-age journey at a time when the world

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Lutz Kleveman, born in Germany in 1974, is a writer and historian. He studied French Literature in Aix-en-Provence and International History at the London School of Economics. From 1999-2007, Lutz reported from conflict zones in the Balkans, West Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, South America, and East Asia. Lutz wrote for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Die Zeit, Newsweek, Playboy Magazine and various other magazines in Germany, Britain, and the States. He is the bi-lingual author of Lemberg: Europas vergessene Mitte (Berlin, Aufbau, 2017), of Wanderjahre: A Reporters Journey through a Mad World (London, 2014), of Kriegsgefangen: Meine deutsche Spurensuche (Munich, Siedler, 2011), of The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia (New York and London, Grove Atlantic, 2003) and of Der Kampf um das Heilige Feuer: Wettlauf der Weltmächte am Kaspischen Meer (Berlin, Rowohlt, 2002).