Klaus Harpprecht

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Klaus Harpprecht (2011)

Klaus Harpprecht (born April 11, 1927 in Stuttgart ; † September 21, 2016 in La Croix-Valmer ) was a German journalist and book author .

Life

Harpprecht grew up as the child of a pietistic pastor's family , his father was a sympathizer of the Christian Social People's Service party in the Weimar Republic and a member of the Confessing Church during the National Socialist era . From 1934 he lived in Nürtingen .

During the Second World War , Harpprecht applied to the army as a reserve officer candidate around 1944 in order to avoid being "recruited by the SS ". He experienced the end of the war wounded in a hospital. He then made up his Abitur at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Blaubeuren .

Harpprecht began as a volunteer at the weekly newspaper Christ und Welt in 1948 , was a commentator at the RIAS station in Berlin in 1954 and from 1956 at the WDR in Cologne . From 1960 to 1962 he and his wife produced TV reports for Windrose GmbH (Managing Director: Peter von Zahn ) and then worked as the ZDF American correspondent in Washington .

From 1966 to 1969 he headed the S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main . From 1967 until the issue of March 1971 he was one of the publishers and editors of the magazine The Month .

From 1972 to 1974 he was speechwriter for German Chancellor Willy Brandt , and in 1978 he was editor-in-chief of GEO magazine . In 1982 he became the Paris correspondent for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

In the summer semester of 1990 Harpprecht was " Brothers Grimm Visiting Professor " at the University of Kassel and in spring 2004 "Theodor Herzl Lecturer for Poetics of Journalism" at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna . From October 2007 to the end of 2010 he was together with Michael Naumann as the successor to Hans Magnus Enzensberger, the editor of the book series Die Andere Bibliothek .

He was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Harpprecht lived in La Croix-Valmer in the south of France . He was married to Renate Lasker-Harpprecht (* 1924), who with her sister Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the camp imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen .

Awards

After the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1966 and the Joseph E. Drexel Prize in 1966, Harpprecht received the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 2009 . According to the jury, he succeeded in creating an “amazing synthesis of culture and politics, power and spirit, journalism and literature”. In 2011 Klaus Harpprecht received the Theodor Wolff Prize again, this time for his life's work.

Works (selection)

Books

items

  • Guilty? By what, why? An answer to FC Delius . In: Die Zeit , August 1, 1997.
  • In no man's land . The crux of the ex-GDR is its spiritual homelessness . In: Die Zeit , September 10, 1998.
  • A very special day . The story of pastor Julius von Jan and his sermon against the pogroms of the Nazis. In: Die Zeit No. 45, November 4, 1999.
  • Demolition Master of the Nation. Why the Iron Chancellor Bismarck does not appear before the Bundestag . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 5 / August 6, 2000, 11.
  • Provincial, banal and repetitive a thousand times. A settlement with the standards of television and press . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 30, 2001.
  • Bible celebration into the day after tomorrow . How do you feel about religion? The answer to this divides America from Europe - and the gap is widening . In: Die Zeit No. 50/2002.
  • Tübingen : citizens, lads, spirit and God. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979.9, pp. 38-60. Informative experience report. ISSN  0342-8311
  • Quebec : The French of the New World. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980, 5, pp. 80-100. Informative experience report. ISSN  0342-8311

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Klaus Harpprecht is dead . Spiegel Online , September 21, 2016, accessed September 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Arno Widmann : Germany was never a nation . Interview in the Frankfurter Rundschau , January 24, 2015, p. 34 f.
  3. ↑ Susanne Mack: Career of a Pastor's Daughter - Anja Würzburg: "I: Pastor's Child" . Deutschlandradio Kultur , October 26, 2005, accessed on September 21, 2016.
  4. ^ Rainer Blasius : Klaus Harpprecht: Not a nice mess . faz.net , December 29, 2014
  5. ^ Right and cheap. Klaus Harpprecht on the Gerstenmaier case . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1969, p. 22 ( Online - Jan. 27, 1969 ).
  6. ↑ Harpprecht's resignation: initially simple . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1968, p. 188-189 ( Online - Mar. 25, 1968 ).
  7. ↑ "Month" -end: Very setting the tone . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1971, p. 181 ( Online - Mar. 8, 1971 ).
  8. ^ Theodor Herzl lectureship for the poetics of journalism in the academic year 2004 , publizistik.univie.ac.at
  9. ↑ On January 1, 2011, the program management was transferred to Christian Döring , who had accompanied the series as a lecturer since autumn 2009. Judith von Sternburg: Christian Döring: "That is a bogeyman" . Frankfurter Rundschau , March 27, 2010, accessed on September 21, 2016.
  10. ^ Giovanni di Lorenzo : Holocaust survivors: "Auschwitz does not allow any emotion". Die Zeit 19/2014, May 6, 2014, accessed on September 21, 2016 .
  11. ^ Journalist Prize of the German Newspapers - Theodor Wolff Prize for six journalists / Klaus Harpprecht honored for his life's work. Press release Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV), May 19, 2011, accessed on September 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Harpprecht, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brant, Stefan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, publicist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2016
Place of death La Croix-Valmer