Author / Copenhagen and Stuttgart
Scandinavia, Africa, the economy and society
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Life
Studied Geography in Tübingen and Maynooth, Ireland, and completed journalistic training as a scholarship holder at the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists in Munich. After an internship at the Stuttgart News He came to Zeitenspiegel in 1999.
AwardsJournalism Award of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Rerum Novarum Prize, Regino Prize for Outstanding Judicial Reporting, World Population Journalism Award, Constructive World Award (nomination only), DGA Journalism Prize, Kindernothilfe Media Prize (Children's Jury Prize, together with Sascha Montag)
Projects
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Bernd Hauser, Rainer Kwiotek, ReportageMenschlich auf Sendung
Author Bernd Hauser, photographer Rainer Kwiotek
Erschienen in „Menschen“ No.1 / 2026Der Schauspieler Nikolaj Coster-Waldau kämpft mit den Tränen, Regierungschefin Mette Frederiksen spricht über ihre größte Angst: Einsamkeit. Das gelingt, wenn Prominente von TV Glad interviewt werden – das weltweit erste Medienhaus für Journalistinnen und Journalisten mit Beeinträchtigungen. Ein Besuch in einer besonderen Redaktion in Kopenhagen.
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Bernd Hauser, Interview“We didn't want to be Hitler's canaries”
Author: Bernd Hauser
Published in the Frankfurter Rundschau on May 20, 2025Knud Christensen is one of the last survivors of the Danish resistance against the Nazis. Today, the centenarian talks about what is worth fighting for.
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Bernd Hauser, ReportageCome on, jump again!
Author: Bernd Hauser
Published in the Berliner Zeitung on August 28, 2024For half a century, the bluefin tuna had been absent from Denmark's waters. Now, the extraordinary fish are back in the Øresund.
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Bernd Hauser, Reportage, Sascha MontagToo young for Buddha
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Bernd Hauser
Published in „taz“, January 13, 2024Every minute, 23 underage girls get married somewhere in the world: child marriage is a global problem. A visit with young women like Migma Diki Sherpa in Nepal, where these marriages are particularly common.
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Bernd Hauser, Reportage, Sascha MontagA disease, as if invented by the devil
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Bernd Hauser
Published in „Focus“, 02/2023Worldwide, 120 million people carry a parasite that causes grotesque swelling. You don't die from elephantiasis, but it exacerbates poverty. In Nepal, a microbiologist is working to eradicate the pathogen.
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Bernd Hauser, Reportage, Sascha MontagA childhood as a nun
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Bernd Hauser
Published in „My Child,“ 12/2022Pema is twelve years old and hasn't seen her mother in seven years: she lives in a school for Buddhist nuns in Nepal.
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Bernd Hauser, InterviewWhen the ocean melts, the system loses its balance
Author Bernd Hauser
Published in GEO 04/2022Biologist Carsten Egevang formerly researched Arctic birds.
He now accompanies indigenous hunters in Greenland as a photographer – as long as hunting seals, polar bears, walruses, and whales is still possible. -
Bernd Hauser, Interview„Drinking can be a solution.“
Author Bernd Hauser
Published in the „Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag“ on May 9, 2021The film „Another Round“ is the most controversial Oscar winner this year. A conversation with Danish director Thomas Vinterberg about drinking and the higher purpose of losing control.
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Bernd Hauser, ReportageThe Search for Meaning on the Francis Route Pilgrimage
Author Bernd Hauser
Published in „Welt am Sonntag“ on April 8, 2021What fascinates people about Francis of Assisi, who lived over 800 years ago, still today? The 600-kilometer-long Way of St. Francis between Florence and Rome offers answers. Those who walk here in solitude find much inspiration for contemplation.
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Bernd Hauser, ReportTough dog
Author Bernd Hauser
Published in „Focus“ on 12/20/2020The wheel hadn't been invented yet, but people were already traveling across the Arctic ice with dog sleds. A research project is investigating the Greenland dog's past to save it for the future.
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Bernd Hauser, ReportageQueen of the Seas
Author Bernd Hauser
Published in Berliner Zeitung on 11/20/2019Oysters are a luxury – rare and precious, prized by gourmets. Almost all of these shellfish now come from farms. Only in Denmark's Limfjord is the European oyster still fished. But the Pacific oyster is slowly spreading in Denmark as well. This has consequences.
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Bernd Hauser, ReportageThe New Cold War
Author Bernd Hauser
Published in Focus 39/2019 on 09/21/2019Americans, Russians, and Chinese are discovering Greenland's strategic importance and vying for influence in the region. Meanwhile, the island's inhabitants dream of independence.