Christian Semler

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Christian Semler (born December 13, 1938 in Berlin ; † February 13, 2013 there ) was a German journalist and leading representative of the West German student movement in the 1960s .

Life

Semler was born in 1938 as the son of cabaret artist and actress Ursula Herking and CSU co- founder Johannes Semler . From 1957 to 1961 he studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München . He broke off a study of history and political science that had begun in 1963 .

In 1957 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Socialist German Student Union (SDS); However, he left the SPD again in 1959. From 1966 to 1970 Semler was a member of the advisory board of the SDS. With him, Rudi Dutschke and Bernd Rabehl , Hans Magnus Enzensberger conducted a conversation about the future for the magazine Kursbuch in October 1967 , in which revolutionary goals and possibilities were reflected on.

In 1970 Semler founded the Maoist Communist Party of Germany (structural organization) (KPD / AO) together with Jürgen Horlemann and Peter Neitzke , of which he was later chairman. After the dissolution of the KPD / AO in 1980, Semler worked as a freelance journalist in Cologne . In the spring of 1989 he moved back to West Berlin and became editor of the taz , for which he continued to work as a freelance writer as a pensioner . From the beginning of the 1990s he lived in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

In 2009 Semler received the Otto Brenner Special Prize, which was awarded for the best analysis, and on September 3, 2010 the Thank You Medal from the European Solidarność Center in the Reichstag building in Berlin. The Polish President Bronisław Komorowski presented him with the medal .

Numerous benevolent obituaries appeared on Semler's death. One of his former colleagues, Harald Noth, criticized this in an article for the Herbert Gruhl Society.

Publications

  • Against the supremacy plans of Soviet social-imperialism in Europe! Speech d. Enjoyed Christian Semler. Rote Fahne publishing house, Cologne 1975.
  • In the wild east. Political explorations in East Central Europe (= Wagenbach's pocket library. Vol. 170). Wagenbach, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-8031-2170-1 .
  • as editor with Frank Herterich : In between. East Central European Reflections (= Edition Suhrkamp 1560 = NF 560). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-518-11560-X .
  • 1968 in the West - what did the GDR concern us? In: From Politics and Contemporary History . No. 45 , 2003, p. 3-5 ( online ).
  • No communism is also no solution. Texts and essays. taz Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937683-43-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ines Pohl : Christian Semler died. In: the daily newspaper , February 13, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Jörg Lau: The traitors are among us , Die Zeit 17/1999.
  3. ↑ Hans Magnus Enzensberger : A conversation about the future. In: infopartisan.net with Rudi Dutschke , Bernd Rabehl and Christian Semler from: Critique of the Future , Course Book No. 14, August 1968.
  4. ↑ Dirk von Petersdorff : The great delirium In: Die Welt , January 20, 2001.
  5. ↑ a b on the person: christian semler. In: the daily newspaper , December 24, 2004.
  6. ↑ Otto Brenner "Special" Prize - Christian Semler. ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: otto-brenner-preis.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.otto-brenner-preis.de
  7. ↑ Sebastian Heiser: Excellent taz author. (No longer available online.) In: die tageszeitung . September 3, 2010, archived from the original on September 6, 2010 ; Retrieved January 11, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.taz.de
  8. ↑ Harald Noth: First openly represent totalitarianism, then disguise it. Herbert Gruhl Society V., March 18, 2013, archived from the original on October 1, 2013 ; Retrieved May 15, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Semler, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2013
Place of death Berlin