UMAM D&R in collaboration with the Orient-Institut Beirut is pleased to invite you to a talk with Kilian Pfeffer, moderated by Prof. Jens Hanssen, director of the OIB, with a short introduction by Monika Borgmann, director of UMAM D&R.

The event will take place at 6 PM on 17 July 2025 at the Orient-Institut Beirut.

Robert Pfeffer was a German journalist and foreign correspondent for STERN magazine who was killed in Beirut under mysterious circumstances in 1979. To this day, it remains unclear who was behind the murder and what the killer's motive might have been.

Robert's nephew, Kilian Pfeffer, has made it his mission to solve the case of who saw Robert Pfeffer as an enemy. His recent podcast “Two Shots to the Heart – Why did My Uncle have to Die?” deals with his uncle’s murder and leads him to the Lebanese Civil War, where he uncovers a network of “terrorist organizations” and “intelligence agencies.”

Kilian Pfeffer is a German journalist for public broadcasting network ARD and a current TV correspondent at the ARD Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin. He covers stories for national television about a wide range of political topics, especially the right wing party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) and digitalization. He has developed and hosted story-telling podcasts such as “Christian Wulff – the Fall of the Federal President” and “Dark Matters – Secrets of the Secret Services.” His academic background includes a Master’s degree in Musicology and American Studies from Humboldt University Berlin, supplemented by studies in the U.S. under a Fulbright Scholarship.