{{Short description|German reporter, TV-host, and author}} thumb|Haas in 2012
'''Michaela Haas''' is a German reporter, TV-host, and author. She is the author of ''Bouncing Forward: Transforming Bad Breaks into Breakthroughs'' (Atria/Enliven, 2015),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/65964-atria-forms-new-spirituality-imprint.html|last=Gross|first=Anisse|title=Atria Forms New Spirituality Imprint|work=Publishers Weekly|date=20 March 2015|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> Crazy America (RandomHouse/Goldmann, 2017), Dakini Power (Shambhala, 2013) and co-author of ''The Ghetto-Swinger'' (1996). She has hosted talkshows and political as well as cultural broadcasts in Germany such as ''Kulturweltspiegel'' (ARD), ''Unter Vier Augen'' (BR), ''WestART'' (WDR), ''Boulevard Europa'' (WDR). She is a contributing editor for David Byrne's Reasons to Be Cheerful, a columnist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung,<ref>{{cite news|last=Haas|first=Michaela|title=Kolumne|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/autoren/michaela-haas-1.1408562|work=Süddeutsche Zeitung|lang=de|date=9 August 2024|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> and she has contributed to magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times,<ref>{{cite news|last=Haas|first=Michaela|title=Would You Open Your Home to an Ex-Prisoner?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/opinion/housing-released-prisoners.html|work=The New York Times|date=11 December 2019|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> the Huffington Post, Mother Jones,<ref>{{cite news|last=Haas|first=Michaela|title=When Your Rapist Demands Custody|url=https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2019/08/rapist-custody-abortion/|publisher=Mother Jones|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> Al Jazeera,<ref>{{cite news|last=Haas|first=Michaela|title=A geneticist's biggest challenge: Curing his own son|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/1/2/a-geneticists-biggest-challenge-curing-his-own-son|work=Al Jazeera|date=2 January 2021|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> and Rotary International Magazine.<ref>{{cite web|last=Haas|first=Michaela|title=Profile|url=https://muckrack.com/michaela-haas|website=Muckrack|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref>
==Biography== In 1996, she co-authored her first non-fiction book. "Coco Schumann, the Ghetto-Swinger" is the true story of a Jewish entertainer who survived the Nazi-Camps by playing for his life.<ref>[http://www.dtv.de/books/the_ghetto_swinger_24107.html DTV Publishing]</ref>
After completing her education as a journalist at the Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich and earning her degree as master journalist from LMU Munich, she was offered the post of staff reporter for the ''Seite Drei'' of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
At the age of 23, she started hosting ''Live aus dem Alabama'', a popular weekly 90 minute live TV talk show for young people.<ref>{{cite web|title=Live aus dem Alabama|date=2 January 1984|url=http://www.fernsehserien.de/index.php?serie=1131}}</ref>
In 1997, she left Germany to follow her passion for traveling and studying while working as a freelance correspondent from Nepal, North India and France. She enrolled in Kathmandu University in Nepal, to pursue studies of Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhism for two years and has finished her PhD thesis in Asian studies at the University of Bonn in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bonndoc|url=https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/browse?type=author&value=Haas%2C+Michaela}}</ref>
In addition to her media career, Haas is the founding owner of ''Haas live! Communication, Coaching, Consulting'', a coaching company which specializes in media and presentation training for business leaders and media professionals. She lives in Munich, Germany and Los Angeles, California. She is the author of a book about posttraumatic growth, "Bouncing Forward: Transforming Bad Breaks into Breakthroughs" (Atria/Enliven, 2015) and a book about female teachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, ''Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping The Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Haas|first=Michaela|year=2013|title=Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West|publisher=Shambhala Publications|isbn=9781559394079}}</ref> published by Snow Lion/Shambhala in 2013.
She has also taught as a visiting scholar and lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/2013/07/interview-michaela-haas/|title=Check Out My New Interview with Michaela Haas at Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly Online|date=26 July 2013|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> is a member of the Solutions Journalism Network and publishes a weekly solutions column for the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung''.
==Works== *Crazy America: Eine Liebeserklärung an ein durchgeknalltes Land (RandomHouse/Goldmann, 2017) *Bouncing Forward: The Art and Science of Cultivating Resilience (Atria/Enliven, 2015) *Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West (Shambhala/Snow Lion, 2013) *Coco Schumann, The Ghetto Swinger (DoppelHouse Press, 2016)
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==External links== *{{DNB portal|136422292|TYP=}} *{{IMDb name|1799912}} *[http://www.dakinipower.com Dakini Power] *[https://www.michaelahaas.com/ Author website]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haas, Michaela}} Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:German women television journalists Category:German television talk show hosts Category:University of Bonn alumni Category:ARD (broadcaster) people Category:Bayerischer Rundfunk people