Elmar Theveßen
journalist
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Elmar Theveßen is a well-known journalist, anchorman and anaylist since he started working for ZDF television in 1991. He worked at their studio in Washington as correspondent from 1995 - 2001, ran their newsdesk in Berlin from 2003 to 2007 and was deputy editor-in-chief and head of the main newsdesk from 2007 to 2019 before he was put in charge of the ZDF studio in Washington, where he is responsible for reporting from the USA, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama. Elmar Theveßen received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the 1994 German Bundestag Media Prize, the RIAS Commission Television Prize (1998, 2001, 2002), the 2012 German Television Prize and the 2023 Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for Television Journalism. A respected expert on extremism and international politics for many years, he has also written several bestsellers, the most recent being Kampf der Supermächte (battle of superpowers) - Amerika and China auf Konfrontationskurs, and his next one, Deadline - How we can Save Democracy, before it's too late, goes on sale in May 2025 - both published by Piper-Verlag.