Portfolio by Alexander Nabert

New Documentary Series

Selected Films

ARD Mediathek · 2025

Dirty Little Secrets – Why we keep drinking

Alcohol is a drug. Germany remains a high-consumption country. The series follows the hard fight over narratives between science and the alcohol lobby.

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ARD · 2023

How China Is Reshaping the UN Food Agency

China. Macht. Essen tells the story of the geopolitical instrumentalization of the FAO under its Chinese director‑general in recent years.

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BILD · WELT · 2020

Hong Kong Diaries. What Losing Freedom Feels Like

Since the National Security Law, fear and insecurity shape Hong Kong. Four people show what it feels like to lose freedom day by day.

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Selected Investigations

Tagesschau.de · ARD · 2025

Criminals in China behind the fraud wave

Using phishing software, criminals in China steal credit card data. The investigation exposes the structures around a key operator.

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Tagesschau.de · Report München · 2024

AfD employs more than 100 far-right staffers

The AfD parliamentary group gives enemies of the constitution access to parliament: more than 100 staffers from the far right.

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tagesschau.de · BR · 2023

KSK employed local staff with terrorism links

Internal documents show intelligence warnings. The man still worked with the KSK despite this and was later evacuated to Germany.

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Welt am Sonntag · POLITICO · 2022

Death Weapons: Inside a Teenage Terrorist Network

An investigation into an international neo‑Nazi youth network that organizes online, radicalizes and builds terrorist cells.

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Welt am Sonntag · 2022

Influence agent gets close to Chancellor Scholz

A self-described private detective cultivated access to SPD leaders. The reporting shows links to Moscow and Minsk.

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taz · taz am Wochenende · 2018–2019

Hannibal’s Shadow Network in Security Agencies

The series investigates the so‑called “Hannibal” network, including far‑right members and links to intelligence offices, the military and the police.

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Welt am Sonntag · POLITICO · 2022

Death Weapons: Inside a Teenage Terrorist Network

An investigation into an international neo‑Nazi youth network that organizes online, radicalizes and builds terrorist cells.

Read
Welt am Sonntag · 2022

Influence agent gets close to Chancellor Scholz

A self-described private detective cultivated access to SPD leaders. The reporting shows links to Moscow and Minsk.

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taz · taz am Wochenende · 2018–2019

Hannibal’s Shadow Network in Security Agencies

The series investigates the so‑called “Hannibal” network, including far‑right members and links to intelligence offices, the military and the police.

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Selected Podcasts

11KM · tagesschau · 2024

Far-right staffers with access badges

More than 100 employees of the AfD parliamentary group are active in far-right organizations. The investigation shows how secure the Reichstag is.

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11KM · tagesschau · 2023

How China Instrumentalizes the FAO for Its Own Interests

Under China’s director-general, the FAO’s direction changed. Leaked data show how the organization is increasingly instrumentalized.

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WELT · Dicht dran · 2023

At 16, the first bomb – inside the teenage terrorist network

Young people from Europe and the US organize in covert chats and plan attacks. The reporting closely examines the network.

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Book Contributions

  1. Sebastian Erb, Martin Kaul, Alexander Nabert, Christina Schmidt, Daniel Schulz

    „Warten auf »Tag X«: Nordkreuz und das Hannibal-Netzwerk – eine Bilanz nach sechs Jahren Recherche“

    In: Heike Kleffner, Matthias Meisner (eds.): Staatsgewalt. Wie rechtsradikale Netzwerke die Sicherheitsbehörden unterwandern.

    Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Herder, 2023, pp. 34-49.

  2. Martin Kaul, Christina Schmidt, Sebastian Erb, Alexander Nabert

    „Hannibals Netz. Wie ein Elitesoldat der Bundeswehr bundesweit für den Tag X mobilisierte“

    In: Matthias Meisner, Heike Kleffner (eds.): Extreme Sicherheit. Rechtsradikale in Polizei, Verfassungsschutz, Bundeswehr und Justiz.

    Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Herder, 2019, pp. 246-259.

  3. Alexander Nabert

    „Schwarmbetroffenheit. Zur queerfeministischen Praxis auf Twitter“

    In: Patsy l'Amour laLove (ed.): Beißreflexe. Kritik an queerem Aktivismus, autoritären Sehnsüchten, Sprechverboten.

    4th expanded edition. Berlin: Querverlag, 2017, pp. 258-264.

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