Ruth Weiss

Born in 1924 as Ruth Löwenthal in Fürth

1936		Emigrates with her family to South Africa
1960		Starts her career in journalism as Business Editor for "Newscheck" in Johannesburg / South Africa. Later prohibited from entering South Africa
1966 – 1968		Office director of the "Financial Mail" in Salisbury in the former South Rhodesia (currently Zimbabwe)
1969 – 1970		Works in London for the "Guardian" and the "Investors Chronicle"
1971 – 1974		Business Editor for the "Times of Zambia" and Zambia correspondent for the "Financial Times"
1975 – 1978		Heads up the Africa desk of Deutsche Welle, Cologne
1979 – 1980		Freelances in London; reports on the Lancaster House talks and founds the journalist group “Link-up”
1980		Reports on Zimbabwe’s independence
1982		Works for the "Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust" and trainer for economics journalists at the Technicon in Harare / Zimbabwe
		Freelances as journalist. Founds and establishes the "Southern African Economist" and works on several books and films related to talks and seminars in Europe about the situation in South Africa
1989		Establishes the research centre “"Zimbabwe Institute for Southern Africa"
1992		Moves to England (Isle of Wight)
2005		Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
2010		A secondary school in Aschaffenburg (Bavaria) is named after her
		Today Ruth Weiss lives and works as author and freelance journalist in Germany

Memory's Tagebuch. Eine Geschichte aus Simbabwe, Roman, 2009

Eingeladen war ich nicht: Gedanken während einer Reise, 2008

Miss Moores Geburtstag, Roman, 2008

Mitzis Hochzeit, 2007

Die Nottaufe, 2006

Der Judenweg, Roman, 2005

Blutsteine, Roman, 2002

Meine Schwester Sara, Roman, 2002

Nacht des Verrats, Roman, 2000

Geteiltes Land. Krieg und Frieden im südlichen Afrika, 1997

Sascha und die neun alten Männer, Erzählungen, 1997

Die Reise nach Gaborone, Roman, 1997

Wege im harten Gras, Autobiografie, 1994

Feresia, Roman, 1988