Christian Hardinghaus

Christian Hardinghaus (born April 23, 1978 in Osnabrück ) is a German historian , writer and specialist journalist .

Life

Christian Hardinghaus publishes non-fiction books on contemporary historical topics, historical novels ( World War II ) as well as thrillers and crime fiction. Hardinghaus studied history, media and literature at the University of Osnabrück . In 2011 he received his doctorate here in the field of propaganda and anti-Semitism research . In 2016, Hardinghaus also graduated as a high school teacher in German and history. Hardinghaus lives in Osnabrück and works as a writer, editor and freelance journalist.

Services

Hardinghaus was the first scientist to study the social network Facebook as a propaganda tool and for anti-Semitic content. He paid special attention to what is known today as fakenews and historical revisionism as propaganda stylistic devices. In his anti-Semitism study in 2009, Hardinghaus asked a total of 1200 users on the social networks of the studiVZ group about possible anti-Semitic attitudes. Among other things, 30 percent of those surveyed were of the opinion that Jews differ in character from other people. 50 percent named bad qualities such as greed, greed or greed.

As part of a scholarship from the Science Journalism course at the Technical University of Dortmund , Hardinghaus carried out a study among Germans in 2011 on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , in order to analyze the spread of conspiracy theories around September 11, 2001. According to this study, for example, 56 percent of respondents were certain that the attacks could not have taken place without the knowledge of the US government. The results were published in the magazine PM Perspektive .

In 2014, Hardinghaus started the Großväterland project together with the Bielefeld comic artist Markus Freise . After a crowdfunding campaign, he interviewed 15 contemporary witnesses who fought as soldiers in World War II. Some of these stories about the Stalingrad basin , the tank battle for Kursk , D-Day or the final battle for Berlin were portrayed in the graphic novel Grandfatherland published by Panini Verlag in 2016 .

From 2015 Hardinghaus worked with the biologist Hans Machemer on the story of his father Helmut Machemer, who in 1939 voluntarily went to war as a junior doctor of the 16th Panzer Division in order to make use of a little-known "exception" in the National Socialists' racial legislation can. After he was promoted to the rank of sanitary through awards of bravery, his commander Major Henning von Witzleben sent a pardon to Adolf Hitler. After that, Machemer's wife, who according to the Nazi ideology as a "half-Jew", and his three children, who had been branded as "quarter Jews", were recognized by the Reichssippenamt and the high command of the Wehrmacht as "German-blooded" with the signature of Wilhelm Keitel Law equated with the " Aryans ". Helmut Machemer, however, never saw his family again. Shortly before his first home leave, he was fatally wounded on May 18, 1942 near Isjum at the beginning of the Battle of Kharkov . Machemer had recorded his life as a soldier in around 200 letters, around 2000 photos and around six hours of film material. A selection of this legacy was published by Hans Machemer and Christian Hardinghaus 76 years after Helmut Machemer's death in the book What It Was Worth To Dare For . Based on the true tragedy, Hardinghaus brought out the novel A Hero in Dark Times that same year . Both works were published by Europa Verlag .

In 2019, a biography of the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch was also published by Europa Verlag . Hardinghaus based his research on previously unpublished sources. Like the scriptwriters of the second season of the ARD series Charité , Sabine Thor-Wiedemann and Grimme Prize winner Dorothee Schön , the heirs entrusted him with the secret diary of the Alsatian surgeon Adolphe Jung . Jung describes Sauerbruch as a person who deeply detested anti-Semitism and Hitler and hid Jews in the Charité's surgical clinic until 1945 . At the same time, Hardinghaus published the novel Die Spionin der Charité , based on true events , which is dedicated to the actually existing resistance group that had formed around Sauerbruch in the 1940s . In addition to Jung, this group included the spy Fritz Kolbe , his future wife and Sauerbruch's private secretary Maria Fritsch and the later KGB spy Wolfgang Wohlgemuth . Likewise, Margot Sauerbruch and, in a broader sense, son Peter Sauerbruch and the men of the Wednesday company .

Hardinghaus also writes short stories and thrillers, which are characterized by a technical trick. The so-called mindfuck effect originally stems from the film business. In his second subject in media (film and TV), Hardinghaus had concentrated on this form of cinematic, non-linear narration and examined David Lynch's films in particular .

Hardinghaus has been working with the XPUB publishing house and Oliver Rohrbeck's Lauscherlounge since 2017 and is involved in live audio book events. The audio book on Mindfuck Stories is spoken by Tom Vogt . Voice actor and actor Thomas Schmuckert interprets Die Hexe von Norderney as well as the 2019 successor Die Schatten von Norderney. In the second part of the thriller series "Ebbe und Wut", the DJ duo Blank & Jones plays a key role, having organized the Seaside Season party event twice a year in the Norderneyer Milchbar for around ten years .

Since the beginning of 2016, Hardinghaus has been writing the columns "Famous Medic", "Famous Helpers in Medicine" and "The Most Spectacular Cases of Medicine" for the magazine Klinikarzt of Georg Thieme Verlag .

Works

Film propaganda for the Holocaust? A study based on the inflammatory films Der ewige Jude and Jud Suss Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 9783828896024 .
The Eternal Jew and the Facebook Generation. Anti-Semitic propaganda and prejudice in social networks Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, Marburg 2012. ISBN 978-3828829367 .
Mulholland Drive: The Decryption. Understand David Lynch and his "Road of Darkness". Grin & Movie, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3656427575 .
Mindfuck Stories. Crazy short stories. PRovoke Media, Berlin / Osnabrück 2014. New edition: XPUB, Berlin 2017. ISBN 3981640926 .
Schlemihl's shadow. (Novel). Prolibris, Kassel 2016. ISBN 978-3954751303 .
Grandfatherland. Contemporary witnesses tell of the Second World War. (Graphic Novel with Markus Freise ) Panini, Stuttgart 2016. ISBN 978-3957989420 .
The witch of Norderney. (Roman) KBV, Hillesheim 2018. ISBN 978-3954414086 .
A hero of the dark times. (Roman) Europa Verlag, Munich / Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2018. ISBN 978-3958901193
What it was worth daring life for: letters, photos and documents from a troop doctor on the Eastern Front in 1941/42. (Editor with Hans Machemer) Europa Verlag, Munich / Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2018. ISBN 978-3958901209 .
The Key to Mulholland Drive: Understanding David Lynch and his Street of Darkness . Independently published (July 25, 2018). ISBN 978-1717908711
Ferdinand Sauerbruch and the Charité: Operations against Hitler. Europa Verlag, Munich / Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2019. ISBN 978-3958902367
The Charité spy . (Roman) Europa Verlag, Munich / Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2019. ISBN 978-3958902374
The shadows of Norderney . (Roman), KBV, Hillesheim 2019. ISBN 978-3954414581 .
The damn generation: Conversations with the last soldiers of WWII . Europa Verlag, Munich / Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2020. ISBN 978-3958902978

The following have been published as audio books:

Mindfuck Stories. Crazy short stories. Voiced by Tom Vogt . XPUB, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-945703-58-8
The witch of Norderney. Voiced by Thomas Schmuckert . XPUB, Berlin 2018. ISBN 9783945703793 .
The shadows of Norderney. Voiced by Thomas Schmuckert . XPUB, Berlin 2019. ISBN 9783945703946 .
Ferdinand Sauerbruch and the Charité. Voiced by Oliver Rohrbeck . XPUB, Berlin 2020.
The Charité spy. Voiced by Oliver Rohrbeck . XPUB, Berlin 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME	Hardinghaus, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, writer and specialist journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osnabrück