Udo Ulfkotte

Udo Ulfkotte
Ulfkotte in 2007
Born
Udo Konstantin Ulfkotte

(1960-01-20)20 January 1960
Lippstadt, West Germany
Died13 January 2017(2017-01-13) (aged 56)
EducationUniversity of Freiburg (PhD)
Occupations
  • Author
  • journalist
  • conspiracy theorist
Websiteulfkotte.de

Udo Konstantin Ulfkotte (20 January 1960 – 13 January 2017) was a German journalist and author who worked for the German main daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) from 1986 until 2003. From the end of the 1990s, he wrote several bestsellers and increasingly advocated right-wing populist, Islamophobic, and conspiracy-theory positions,[1][2][3][4][5] and maintained that journalists, including himself, and leading newspapers published material that had been fed to them, or bought, by the CIA and other Western intelligence and propaganda agencies.[6]

  1. ^ Hanrahan, Brían (25 March 2017). "Post-Truthers: Welcome to Conspiracy Central, Berlin". Handelsblatt. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  2. ^ Simpson, Patricia Anne; Druxes, Helga (2015). Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States. Lexington. p. 125. Udo Ulfkotte and Eva Herman... now promote right populist esoteric views
  3. ^ Benz, Wolfgang (17 March 2014). "Quellentext: Islamfeindlichkeit und Antisemitismus ähneln einander". Dossier Rechtsextremismus (in German). Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
  4. ^ Shooman, Yasemin (2014). »… weil ihre Kultur so ist«. Narrative des antimuslimischen Rassismus (in German). transcript. p. 92. ISBN 978-3837628661.
  5. ^ Schiedel, Heribert (2011). Extreme Rechte in Europa (in German). Steinbauer. p. 46. ISBN 978-3902494542.
  6. ^ "Rechtspopulismus: Umstrittener Publizist Udo Ulfkotte ist tot". Spiegel Online (in German). 14 January 2017.