Britain was struggling to combat the powerful Nazi propaganda machine, which crowed victory and smeared its enemies. But inside Germany, there was one notable voice of dissent from the very heart of the military machine, Der Chef, a German whose radio broadcasts skilfully questioned Nazi doctrine. He had access to high-ranking German military secrets and spoke of internal rebellion.<br />
His listeners included German soldiers and citizens. American officials and even the President tried to to decipher what it meant for the future of the war. But what these audiences didn't know was that Der Chef was a fiction, a character created by the British propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer, just one player in Delmer's vast counter-propaganda cabaret, a unique weapon in the war.<br />
As author Peter Pomerantsev uncovers Delmer's story, he is called into a wartime propaganda effort of his own: the global response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. This book is the story of Delmer and his modern-day investigator, as they each embark on their own quest to seduce and inspire the passions of supporters and enemies, and to turn the tide of information wars.
Der ehemalige Fernsehfachmann seziert die Sendungen, untersucht Meldungen und deren Platzierung, nimmt den Zeitgeist auf die Schippe und spricht bittere Wahrheiten aus. Und erinnert uns an unsere Bürgerpflicht: Motzen statt Glotzen!
Vom Schreiben zwischen Kunst und Handwerk: Auf bisher einzigartige Weise beleuchten der Autor Hanns-Josef Ortheil und der Lektor Klaus Siblewski anhand von prominenten Beispielen und eigenen Erfahrungen alle Facetten des kreativen Prozesses: von der ersten poetischen Eingebung über den Entwurf von Schauplätzen und Figuren bis hin zu den Problemen der Bewältigung großer Stoffmenge und den Abschluss des Textes.