Ramiro Villapadierna
Ramiro Villapadierna (Madrid, Spain, 1964) is a Berlin based writer and regular commentator on Central Europe issues and culture with several media and political institutes. He currently works at the DPA Central Offices in Berlin.
He's been the decades long Central Europe Bureau Head for the Spanish national daily ABC, first in Prague, then in Vienna and afterwords in Berlin, having travelled and worked extensively throughout the Eastern regions and the Balkans.
His reputation as a long time flying correspondent has been rewarded at several reprises in Spain, among others with the Salvador de Madariaga European Journalism Prize and was nominated to the Cirilo Rodrigo Foreign Correspondence Award and the Larra Prize.
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University Degree in Communication Arts at Universidad Complutense and Master Degree in Historic and Customary Law at UNED. Working languages: Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Czech.
He's continuously reported on the political, social and economic transition in Centre and East Europe, including historical processes like the splitting of Czechoslovakia and the collapse of Yugoslavia, the subsequent wars in the Balkans (where he was shot at, wounded, arrested and robbed at different times). As for a change he was exceptionally assigned to touring the USA, year 2000, for a series on the American society, between the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush eras.
In 1990, at the time of the collapse of communist regimes and the beginning of democratic transition, he was assigned to open the Eastern Europe ABC office. Based in Prague, Vienna and since 2002 in Berlin, as well as eventually residing all over the Balkans, he's been one of the more long-standing European reporters travelling the eastern regions where he consistently accounts among the most knowledgeable.
Over 4,000 reports, articles and analyses on the Central Europe and the Balkan peoples, interviewing dozens of chiefs of State and Government, ministers, intellectuals and artists, through more than 300,000 km toured in the region.
Formerly he was a culture reporter and music and jazz commentator with ABC (where he was staff writer since 1986) as well as other outlets, where he has written extensively on cinema, literature and music.
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Articles published by recognized media in the Czech Lands, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Poland. Travel writings and special country reports published in Spanish magazines and Encyclopediae.
Requested correspondences and comments for the BBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle, Radio France International, Radio Nederland, Radio Nacional de España, Cuatro, Tele5, A3 and Radio Montreal.
Lectures on Europe and the Balkans at the end of Communism, Nationalism, War reporting and conflict resolution, at events and meetings with the European Comission, Madrid Universidad Complutense, Instituto Cervantes, Wilton Park, Warsaw Institute for Eastern Studies, The Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, The Forum Formentor, Universidad de Alicante, Venice Fondazione Giorgio Cini, International Balkan Correspondents Congress, Prague NATO Atlantic Club, Fundación CIDOB, Academia de la Guardia Civil, Escuela de Guerra or Fundación Duques de Soria. Regular commenting guest to TV specials on Europe integration, democratization and nation building.
At Diván Este-Oeste he keeps one of the very few Spanish language blogs on old Mitteleuropa issues as well as non-typical stories from Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania.
He's written or taken part on several collective books and projects on nationalism, Central Europe, and Journalism in conflict areas, as well as a literary family saga La Grande Vie: Lances y pasión de los Villapadierna for The Ritz Villa Padierna.
[edit] External links
- RamiroVillapadierna.net
- Diván Este-Oeste
- Asociación de Periodistas Europeos: "Europa se hace en la escuela"
[edit] References
- 1. ONU
- 2. Villapadierna herido en Croacia
- 3. Villapadierna atacado en Albania
- 4. Cuatro TV - Callejeros Viajeros: Berlín
- 5. Polonia en Español
- 6. Congreso de Periodismo Digital
- 7. Periodismo e Internet
- 8. Las televisiones y el 20 Aniversario del Muro de Berlín
- 9. Instituto Cervantes: Kultur des Erinnerns
- 10. Presidencia Checa: Rozhovor prezidenta republiky
- 11. Premio Cirilo Rodríguez
- 12. Tres maestros de un oficio
- 13. Ganador del XVII Premio de Periodismo Europeo Salvador de Madariaga
- 14. El Madariaga a un periodismo que ‘hace’ Europa
- 15. Villapadierna: «Europa se hará en la escuela o no se hará»
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