Karl-Heinz Hagen

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Karl-Heinz Hagen (born November 10, 1919 in Berlin-Nikolassee ; † September 8, 1994 ) was a German journalist .

Life

After graduating from school, he prepared for a theological degree. At the beginning of the Second World War, he was imprisoned for several months for making unpleasant statements, but then released. He dropped his theology plan and made money as an office worker, carrying stationery to customers and packing clothes in cardboard boxes. He then worked as an agricultural laborer on an estate in Württemberg and then on a farm in Mecklenburg. He then worked as a trimmer - backshafter on a Hapag-Lloyd steamer until 1943 . After a short imprisonment in Berlin, Hagen worked as a groom on an estate in the Mark Brandenburg region until he was able to get a legal "war-important" job in an AEG office . After the end of World War II, Hagen began to write short stories and feature pages under various pseudonyms. In September 1947 his first novel You are in the fog was published .

Karl-Heinz Hagen was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine she at the Heinz Ullstein Verlag in Berlin from 1948 to 1950. From 1953 to 1960 he was editor- in- chief of the daily newspaper BZ ; from 1960 to 1962 editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Bild and from 1962 to 1966 editor-in-chief of the magazine Quick . From 1965 Karl-Heinz Hagen was the editor of the Illustrated Revue . In 1966 he left the publishing house and together with Günter Prinz published the magazine Eltern at Kindler & Schiermeyer and then from 1969 the magazine Jasmin .

His son Louis Hagen also became a journalist.

Works

  • You are in the fog . The new spirit. September 1947.

Individual evidence

  1. A »SPIEGEL« PAGE FOR KARL-HEINZ HAGEN - DER SPIEGEL 50/1948. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ BZ: BZ Mann Hagen got the first audience