Thomas Deichmann

Thomas Deichmann (born 1962) is a German journalist and author. He was the founder and from November 1992 to May 2011 editor-in-chief and publisher of the German magazine NovoArgumente. Since August 2011 he has been working as communication expert for various corporations. Deichmann studied Civil Engineering at TU Darmstadt. In 1992, after earlier political activities, he began to work as an editor and journalist, writing first about international relations and then increasingly about issues to do with the natural sciences and their role in society. Deichmann received international attention when his articles on the civil war in the former Yugoslavia and its media perception. Since the late 1990s Deichmann’s journalistic focus shifted increasingly to the role played by green NGOs. Deichmann has published widely in quality papers. He is the author of several books published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Eichborn Verlag, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv) and Piper Verlag. Deichmann calls himself a “Future Optimist.” Since 1997, Deichmann has travelled frequently to the Balkans with Austrian writer and nobel laureate Peter Handke. He has organised photo exhibitions about these trips and also written about them.