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Tobias Barth grew up in Halle, Germany, where he worked as an industrial climber, did an apprenticeship as a carpenter and volunteered in an orphanage in Jinja (Uganda). He studied media sciences, German language and literature and theater studies in Leipzig and Basel. Since 1998 author and director for various ARD-institutions, ranging from online articles to daily TV reports to the "Long Night" on Deutschlandfunk. Since 2001 he has been a freelance editor for "Künstlerisches Wort" at MDR KULTUR.  Producer of audio books and audio guides, curator and presenter of events, lecturer at universities. Awarded the German-Czech Journalism Prize and the Kurt Magnus Prize of the ARD, among others.