Alan Posener

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Alan Posener, in 2016 on the show tough but fair

Alan Posener (born October 8, 1949 in London ) is a British-German journalist . He is the son of the architectural historian Julius Posener .

Life

Posener's father was a liberal German Jew with “sympathies for Christianity”. His mother came from an Anglo-Scottish family and was an "Anglican agnostic with a weakness for astrology". He grew up in England , Malaysia and Germany .

Posener studied German and English at the Free University of Berlin and the Ruhr University Bochum . He was active as a cadre of the Communist Student Union and the Maoist KPD-AO from 1970 to 1977. He used the code name Kurt Schmid at times . In 1975 he joined the union and is still a member of ver.di today . After the state examination he worked as a teacher both at the Kant Gymnasium and at the Martin Buber High School in Berlin-Spandau . According to his own statements, he left the school service “out of boredom”.

In 1987 he wrote the Rowohlt monograph on John Lennon . This was followed by monographs on John F. Kennedy , Elvis Presley , William Shakespeare , Franklin D. Roosevelt and finally Mary, the mother of Jesus . Posener also wrote a “duography” about Stalin and Roosevelt (EVA) and a “couples” biography about John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy (Rowohlt Berlin). He was a textbook author for Ernst Klett Verlag for several years .

From 1999 to 2004 he worked for the world , first as an author, then as an editor . From 2004 to 2008 he was commentary chief of Welt am Sonntag . He now works for this newspaper as a correspondent for politics and society. When Berlin's Kochstrasse was to be renamed Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse in 2005 , he took a firm stand against it. Rudi Dutschke thought nothing of “capitalism and consumption, liberalism and parliamentarism”, it was no coincidence that his colleague Horst Mahler - at that time a member of the same KPD as Posener - “ended up with the NPD ”.

In May 2007, Posener threw in his blog on BBC News the image editor in chief Kai Diekmann "hypocrisy" before and wrote that the Bild newspaper , the "Operating the basest instincts." After scolding colleagues at Axel Springer-Verlag , which publishes both Bild and Die Welt , the entry in Posener's blog was removed from the publisher's website within a few hours. The topic became public through reporting on the process in Bildblog and other online media.

A controversy arose between Posener and the FAZ editor Lorenz Jäger after Jäger had sharply attacked Posener in a newspaper article. Posener was the regular author of the weblog Dieachse des Guten , until Dirk Maxeiner , Henryk M. Broder and Michael Miersch terminated his collaboration in May 2009 .

In his 2009 book entitled Benedict's Crusade , he considers Pope Benedict XVI. a " crusade against the Enlightenment " before. This book was published in 2011 in an expanded and updated paperback edition under the title The Dangerous Pope . Posener not only criticizes the pontificate of Benedict XVI, but is generally of the opinion: "Religion is bad for people".

In 2009/10 Posener held a weekly dispute with the editor-in-chief of the online magazine The European , Alexander Görlach , on religious and ethical issues.

Fonts

For biographies see above.

  • Future empire. Why Europe has to become a world power (Bonn 2007).
  • Benedict's crusade. The Vatican's Attack on Modern Society (Berlin 2009).
  • The dangerous Pope. A pamphlet against Benedict XVI. Ullstein, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-37369-0 .
  • John F. Kennedy. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-05313-0 .

School readings:

  • Late Again!
  • School Uniform - No Thanks!
  • The Beatles Story
  • The Shop
  • Oh! Carol and Other Steve Stories
  • The story bag
  • Foul!
  • Monster (Ernst Klett Verlag)
  • The Double Life of a Very Black Cat
  • Elvis - the Boy Who Rocked the World
  • Olli from Ossiland
  • Fairy Tale Land (Egmont Verlag, Copenhagen)

Web links

Commons : Alan Posener  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alan Posener: When Atheists Pray. In: Humanistic press service. May 4, 2012, accessed on September 29, 2015 : “It is not easy to become an atheist. Actually, it makes sense to be religious in some way. Although neither of my parents were particularly religious (my father a Jewish agnostic with sympathy for Christianity, my mother an Anglican agnostic with a weakness for astrology), I was a devout Christian as a child. "
  2. ↑ Alan Posner: Rigidity and Form, Friday, No. 13, March 2018, p. 21
  3. ↑ Alan Posener: Virtual Mob: The anonymous on the net are enemies of our democracy . In: THE WORLD . January 30, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed February 2, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Alan Posener: "Wait a minute, colleague. First you had to stay here". In: The world . October 16, 2015, accessed July 24, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Alan Posener: Oh, Rudi ... Dutschke and political sentimentality. In: Deutschlandradio . January 13, 2005, accessed July 24, 2016 .
  6. ↑ "The great self-deception" by Kai Diekmann. In: Bildblog . May 9, 2007, accessed July 24, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Christian Kortmann : Commentary war in the Axel-Springer-Verlag - “Someone has to do it”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 17, 2010, accessed July 24, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Lorenz Jäger & Alan Posener: Conspiracy theorists! Anti-semites! In: IP - International Politics . May 1, 2008, pp. 52-61 , accessed July 24, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Sabine Pamperrien : Some are better than others. (Interview) In: Friday . July 17, 2009, accessed July 24, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Alan Posener on the dispute with the axis of good. In: Hiram7 Review. July 18, 2009, accessed July 24, 2016 .
  11. ^ "People with a Stalinist streak" - Alan Posener in conversation about "Islamophobia" and the "Axis of the Good" Endstation Rechts , 2010-02-14, accessed May 12, 2020
  12. ↑ Eren Güvercin: "I attack the Pope because he attacks the Enlightenment". (Interview) In: Telepolis . November 12, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Disput \ Berlin! - Alan Posener. (Video; 4:42 min) In: YouTube . March 24, 2011, accessed on March 31, 2011 (recorded during the religious dispute of Disput \ Berlin! ).
  14. ↑ Alexander Görlach & Alan Posener: “In Germany the mediocre is gaining ground”. In: The European . October 5, 2010, accessed on July 24, 2016 (see also contributions by Alan Posener in The European ).
personal data
SURNAME Posener, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH London