Mirjam Katharina Zwingli is a Swiss expatriate living in Germany and a self-employed Consultant. She is a Ph.D. student in Media Studies with her research focussing on propaganda and enemy images in democracies. She has an MA in Intercultural Communication and a BA in Translation Science – her studies about biased coverage of Putin vs. Obama in the German quality press were published online and have been referred to since.
Subject of her ongoing doctoral thesis is the Russian image in the German press. She works on the assumption that an enemy image serves a greater goal. Powerful global interests need an enemy image to establish and maintain their status quo. Mass communication or the media has become a key factor in this mechanism consisting of powerful industries, military interventions and the enemy image. The enemy image is manufactured in order to generate minimum public acceptance for immense armaments expenditure and war.
Ms. Zwingli is member of the German-Russian Forum Berlin. She was a speaker in the EU-Parliament in Brussels at the European-Russian Forum in 2017. She was invited by the State Duma of the Russian Federation to observe the presidential election in Moscow 2018. Furthermore she is the representative of the Westminster Russia Forum London for European relations.
