{{Short description|German journalist}} {{BLP primary sources|date=February 2011}} '''Lutz Kleveman''' (born 1974) is a German investigative journalist, photographer, and author.

Kleveman's books include ''The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia'' published in 2004 and "Wanderjahre: A reporter's journey in a mad world" published in 2014. Kleveman's work often deals with the relationship between energy interests, geopolitics, and US foreign policy.

Beginning in 1999, he worked as a freelance journalist and photographer in the Balkans, West Africa, the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, and the Middle East.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/oct/20/oil|title=The New Great Game|date=October 20, 2003|work=The Guardian}}</ref> He has written and photographed for the Daily Telegraph, Die Zeit, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, Playboy Magazine and various other publications in Germany, Britain, and the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1503403|title=Journalist Lutz Kleveman|first=Terry|last=Gross|date=November 12, 2003|work=NPR}}</ref>

His latest book ''Lemberg: Die vergessene Mitte Europas'' dealt with the history of the city of Lviv in Ukraine, including the Lviv pogroms (1941) and its position in the former Austrian Empire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/by/de/kul/sup/bue/buexx/21157156.html|title=Lemberg. Die vergessene Mitte Europas|first=Stefan|last=Reinecke|date=July 1, 2017|work=Goethe Institut}}</ref>

==Academic career== Kleveman studied French Literature in Aix-en-Provence and International History at the London School of Economics.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newgreatgame.com/author.htm | title=The New Great Game by Lutz C. Kleveman }}</ref>

== Further publications == * ''Lemberg. Die vergessene Mitte Europas''. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2017, {{ISBN|978-3-351-03668-3}}. * ''The New Great Game''. Grove Press, New York City 2004, {{ISBN|9780802141729}}.

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