Dirk Pohlmann

After his Abitur, Pohlmann studied journalism, philosophy as well as law at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.[2][3] In his time he was especially impressed by the Jesuit Helmut Erlinghagen who witnessed the effects of the Hiroshima bombing.[4]

1986 Pohlmann started with the production of documentaries. After his film on CargoLifter, and after starting to work as a freelance in-house documentarian,[5] he became a manager of CargoLifter World. It went into insolvency with its parent company Cargolifter in 2002.[6] Pohlmann attributed the difficult situation of Cargolifter mainly to the German media, and the unpreparedness of politicians in Germany, leaving business in the end to US companies. After the "initial hype" about CargoLifter, the media in Germany had "howled in chorus like a pack of wolves" and had produced only variations of one false claim:

"CargoLifter must fail, because airships are a harebrained idea." Loss of reality and absence of diversity are a basic problem of today's German media. They align their assessments with the reporting of leading media, i.e. among themselves, instead of reality.[7]

In his time with CargoLifter, Pohlman received training as a project manager.

After 2012, he was manager of Peter Seeberger's pharmaceutical company ArtemiFlow for the production of the antimalarial drug Artemisin.

Pohlmann produced documentaries for arte and ZDF. These include, among others, (titles translated into English) The Secret Air War of the Superpowers (arte, 2004), UFOs, Lies and the Cold War (arte, 2005), Mengele's Heirs' (arte, 2010), Israel and the Bomb (arte/ZDF, 2012) and Deception – Reagan's Method (2014).

He has regularly published his own contributions at KenFM.[8] Since March 2018, Pohlmann has hosted a critique of Wikipedia with former biology teacher Markus Fiedler in Fiedler's series Stories from Wikihausen, which has appeared on their eponymous YouTube channel since April 2019.[9][10] With Robert Fleischer and Mathias Bröckers he hosts the video channel The 3rd Millennium on ExoMagazinTV.[2]

Pohlmann frequently contributes to German alternative media.[11] He was a guest in programmes of RT Deutsch and Sputnik News.[9]

In 2018 he gained public attention in Germany with his criticism of political networks within Wikipedia. A preliminary injunction against a group of Wikipedia critics concerning him, among others, because they had disclosed the identity of a Wikipedia author, was lifted in early 2019. In doing so, the court had followed the view that the "applicant was editing Wikipedia articles in an opinionated manner" and thus the user's disclosure had been in the public interest. In January 2021, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that Fiedler and Pohlmann had named another volunteer Wikipedia author and local politician in a video because of a correction in a Wikipedia article with real name, photo, phone number and email address and called to "tell him what you think of his activities". Subsequently, threats were made against the author.[12][13]

Pohlmann was characterized in a ZDFinfo report in November 2019 as an "activist who thinks the U.S. is warmongering," and that "the Western media are not neutral, but propaganda instruments of NATO." The report mentioned that Pohlmann thought the military option was "the mindset of the Americans, that is, from the American point of view, war is a very profitable business."[14]

Sächsische Zeitung wrote in May 2021: "Dirk Pohlmann is particularly well-versed in his self-portrayal as a universal expert with a downright Goethe style, who actually contributes some kind of specialist "knowledge" to everything: Navalny, Middle East conflict, Green Party, Assassination of Olof Palme, whales, ravens ... ".[15]

• 1996: Kurklinik Rosenau
• 2000: Heimatfront (series of three parts)
• 2000: Soldaten hinter Stacheldraht (part of Heimatfront)[16]
• 2003: Abschuss über der Sowjetunion – Der geheime Luftkrieg der Supermächte
• 2004: Zeitreisen – Geschichte entdecken (series of three parts)
• 2004: Der geheime Luftkrieg der Supermächte
• 2005: Ufos, Lügen und der Kalte Krieg
• 2005: In feindlichen Tiefen – Der geheime U-Boot-Krieg der Supermächte (also known as Der geheime U-Boot-Krieg der Supermächte – Deutschland)
• 2006: ZDF Expeditionen – Magische Welten (TV series, Shangri-La – Spurensuche in Tibet)
• 2006: Hinter den feindlichen Linien – Geheimoperationen im Kalten Krieg
• 2007: Kriegsbeute Mensch – Wie Regierungen ihre Soldaten verraten
• 2007: Ich wollte nicht mehr aufstehen – Neue Forschung gegen Depressionen
• 2008: Der Zuckercode – Geheimwaffe gegen Krebs und Malaria?
• 2009: Geheimnis Area 51 – MiGs im Sperrgebiet
• 2010: Mengeles Erben – Menschenexperimente im kalten Krieg
• 2011: Tod in der Tiefe – Schlagabtausch der Supermächte
• 2012: Israel und die Bombe – Ein radioaktives Tabu
• 2013: Dienstbereit – Nazis und Faschisten im Dienste der CIA (with Florian Hartung)[17]
• 2014: Täuschung – Die Methode Reagan
• 2016: Transportgiganten – Das Comeback der Luftschiffe (with Cornelia Borrmann and Felix Krüger, in Ozon Unterwegs, rbb, 25. April 2016)[18]
• 2016: Europas größte Marsmission (with Cornelia Borrmann)[19]
• 2017: Dickkopfs Doppelspiel

• Wernicke, Jens; Pohlmann, Dirk; Chomsky, Noam; Mausfeld, Rainer; Hedges, Chris; Eisenstein, Charles; Ruppert, Franz; Mies, Ullrich; Ahmed, Nafeez; Leukefeld, Karin; Kirner, Florian; Böttcher, Sven; Pichler, Steffen; Cook, Jonathan; Bonath, Susan; Pomrehn, Wolfgang; Bartunek, Stephan; Rottenfußer, Roland; Grassmann, Peter H.; Hussain, Murtaza; Moegling, Klaus; Johnstone, Caitlin; Benjamín, Medea; Lenz, Anselm; Feistel, Felix; Riedl, Nicolas; Bernert, Jens; Ploppa, Hermann; Buchgut (2019). Die Öko-Katastrophe den Planeten zu retten, heißt die herrschenden Eliten zu stürzen (in German). Mainz. ISBN 978-3-96789-000-6. OCLC 1126576235.
• Im Auftrag der Eliten (in German). Frankfurt am Main. 2021. ISBN 978-3-86489-272-1. OCLC 1242423302.

• Literature by and about Dirk Pohlmann in the German National Library catalogue
• Dirk Pohlmann at IMDb 
• Website