North, Central, and South America, and in East Asia, France, and again Vietnam. From 1973 to 1986, Siemon-Netto served as Managing Editor for Hamburger Morgenpost, taught journalism at Hamburg's Journalistenschule Henri Nannen, worked as a freelance correspondent for German, Swiss, French, and U.S. publications, and as a media consultant overseeing a variety of design and management tasks at publications in Germany and the United States. In mid-career, at age 50, he began his theological studies, first in Chicago, then in Boston. During these studies, Siemon-Netto freelanced as a magazine correspondent. At the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's subsequent reunification, he served, concurrently with his academic work, as an editorial consultant and—as independent contractor—executive editor for Bild, launching its East German editions, helping plan newspapers for Leipzig and Dresden, training Eastern German journalists, and developing a new curriculum for Journalistenschule Axel Springer. From 1993 to 1994 he managed the redesign of the Berlin daily paper Der Tagesspiegel, the Scientific American in New York, and ideaSpektrum, a Protestant magazine in Wetzlar, Germany. He also co-founded CA – Confessio Augustana, a Lutheran quarterly magazine in Neuendettelsau, Bavaria. From 2000 to 2005, he was religious affairs editor of United Press International and a Washington-based columnist for a variety of German-language publications. Education He attended a variety of schools in Germany. He earned his M.A. in theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. His Ph.D. in theology and sociology of religion is from Boston University under Peter L. Berger, Carter Lindberg, and Uri Ra'Anan. He spent a post-doctoral year at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey,. working on a project to bridge the gap between theology and the media. Honors and awards D.Litt., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. (2004) Friedrich Hecker Freedom Award (2009) Notes Bibliography Books The Fabricated Luther: the rise and fall of the Shirer myth. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1995; . Luther als Wegbereiter Hitlers? Zur Geschichte eines Vorurteils. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1993; . One incarnate truth: Christianity's answer to spiritual chaos. Concordia Publishing House, 2002; . Duc: A reporter's love for the wounded people of Vietnam. Amazon, 2013; and . On the brink: the myth of German anti-Americanism. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1982; . Duc, der Deutsche. Mein Vietnam, Warum die Falschen siegten. Basel: Brunnen-Verlag. 2014; . Griewatsch. Der Lümmel aus dem Leipziger Luftschutzkeller. Basel: