About Untitled
This website compiles assorted journalism, criticism and activism from my professional past and more dilettante present.
Among other things, I’ve worked as a ghost tour guide, a summer school teacher and a foreign correspondent for Reuters and The New York Times. I resigned from my last posting to organise a music festival on Big War Island in Belgrade.
“Mired in what, from the outside, looked like true Balkan chaos,” wrote a visiting BBC reporter, “the festival always looked as if it was on the brink of falling apart.”
After holding it together, just, I ran away to reinvent myself as a researcher (and wannabe filmmaker).
Following another stint at Reuters, editing TV news, I now juggle for a living, write for fun and plan sustainable early retirement.
July 7, 2008 at 11:39 am
Dear Mr. Simpson,
as we are doing a research for a reenactment project (documentary film and theater) with the title “The Last Days of Elena & Nicolae Ceausescu” we would like to talk with some people that had some sort of importance in that field. You talked to two of the three soldiers that shot the Ceausescus (Dorin Carlan & Octavian Gheorgiu) and we wonder if you could help us to get some information how to get in contact with them.
Thanks sincerely,
Jens Dietrich