Alexandre Marius Dées de Sterio

Alexandre Marius Dées de Sterio, 2000

Alexandre Marius Dées de Sterio (born April 21, 1944 in Königsberg, † October 11, 2006 in Zoufftgen ) was a Luxembourg media scholar .

His father, Alexandre Leonidas Simon Reinhardt Edler de Dées, Baron de Sterio was a journalist and publicist, his mother did her doctorate in chemistry in Berlin. In 1945 he came to Luxembourg, where he was raised by his grandmother and attended the Athenaeum, then the Lycée des garçons on Limpertsberg , where he was one of the two students who did not attend religious instruction. In Paris he studied at the École supérieure de journalisme (together with Léon Zeches and Lucien Thiel), then at the École des études internationales . Finally, he received his doctorate in sociology from the École pratique des hautes études ( Sorbonne). He then taught at the University of Strasbourg , at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf in the subjects of modern German studies and literary translation, then at the Institute for Media Studies. In Metz he worked in the information and communication department for five years, including in cooperation with the University of Mainz in setting up a Franco-German office.

The former 68er, who at the time was president of the Clan des Jeunes founded by Toto Mergen (as successor to Robert Goebbels ), member of the ASSOSS ( Association générale des étudiants luxembourgeois ) committee, liked to compare May 1968 with 1848 : "According to these two dates people thought differently: they were milestones in history. "

The humanist , freethinker and freemason recalls: "The year 1968 was the questioning of clerical interference in social structures and the existing intermingling. People were fed up with the prohibitions and felt that they could do something themselves. It was the liberation of the spirit , the body, the knowledge. "

During his studies he belonged to the press office of the Sorbonne and in 1968 stood in the Rue St-Jacques at the first barricade and consciously took part in this cultural war . He was the guest speaker at the 75th anniversary of the Luxembourg Union of Journalists in the presence of the Grand Ducal couple.

At the age of 62, De Sterio was one of the victims of the tragic collision of two trains near the French-Luxembourg border.

Among his publications, those about Wolfgang Borchert in particular have become known to a larger group.

Web link

• Ameddias - international forum in memory of De Sterio.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joseph Lorent: A thoroughly liberal-tolerant nature. Luxemburger Wort , October 14, 2006. p. 22.
2. ^ Romain Durlet: Ecce homo: Alexandre Marius Dées de Sterio, the portrait. "The temple is never finished". Day sheet. Fir Lëtzebuerg newspaper , September 30, 2003. p. 30.