Burkhard Schröder (writer)

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Burkhard Schröder (born August 10, 1952 in Holzwickede ) is a German journalist and publicist . From 2005 to 2007 he was editor-in-chief of the media magazine Berliner Journalisten .

Life

Schröder studied German , history and philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and at the Free University of Berlin . In 1973 he became a freelance journalist based in Berlin-Kreuzberg . From 1979 he lived in Latin America for two years . He then worked as a teacher at a high school until he became a taxi operator . From 1984 to 1986 he published the men's magazine HerrMann . From February 2005 to September 2007 he was editor-in-chief of the Berlin media magazine Berliner Journalisten .

Among other things, he writes for the online magazine Telepolis and deals with the topics of network culture , the Internet and right-wing radicalism . One of his most famous books is entitled Nazis are Pop and was published by Espresso-Verlag. In addition, Schröder operates the extensive "information portal on racism and anti-Semitism" on his website with numerous links to both anti-fascist and anti-racist as well as right-wing and anti-Semitic websites. He takes an anti-censorship position and also advocates links to websites with the content of which the linked party does not agree politically or morally.

Schröder's book Tron - Death of a Hacker about the hacker Boris Floricic , who became known under the pseudonym "Tron", caused controversy in the hacker scene. While the spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club at the time , Andy Müller-Maguhn , and the relatives of the deceased supported the thesis that Floricic had been murdered, Schröder's research results and the results of the police investigation suggest that Floricic committed suicide. In this context, Schröder accused Müller-Maguhn of spreading “absurd conspiracy theories ”.

On November 12, 2008, the Berlin police searched Schröder's apartment and confiscated his computer. The search warrant was based on a suspicion of an offense under Section 40 and Section 52 of the Weapons Act . He was accused of having published instructions for building bombs. On June 30, 2009, the Tiergarten district court acquitted him. The prosecutor appealed, but later withdrew it. The acquittal became final in October 2010.

Schröder was co-founder and board member of the non-profit association German Privacy Foundation (GPF). After its dissolution, he was one of the co-founders of the successor German Privacy Fund, which was founded in spring 2013. According to its statutes, the GPF provides information about secure communication on the Internet and wants to ensure that the topics of encryption and anonymity on the Internet are better and more appropriately presented in the media.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Contributions to edited volumes

Fiction (SF)

  • The Einstein-Bose condensate , SF crime thriller, Isaac Asimov magazine No. 49 (June 1997) under the title Cypherguerilla (Heyne Verlag, Munich)
  • Brother , c't 3/2000
  • Eidolon , c't 17/2002
  • Salvaje , in: ThunderYEAR2002 - fantastic stories

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhard Schröder: Right guys. Skinheads, fascists, hooligans . 1992, p. 255.
  2. ↑ Andreas Klärner: Web review on: Information service against right-wing extremism , in: H-Soz-u-Kult, January 23, 2004
  3. ↑ Burkhard Schröder: Hackers do not live dangerously . In: Telepolis , January 10, 2006.
  4. ↑ Harald Neuber: Berlin Justice drops bomb . In: Telepolis , November 12, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Burkhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer, science fiction author and editor-in-chief
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Holzwickede