Dirk Cornelsen

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Dirk Cornelsen (born October 15, 1940 in Stuttgart ) is a German journalist , publicist and reciter .

Dirk Cornelsen

Childhood and youth

Dirk Cornelsen grew up in Berlin - during the first years in the Wilmersdorf artists' colony - with adoptive parents, namely with his aunt, the textbook author and graphic artist Hildegard Cornelsen and her husband, the textbook publisher Franz Cornelsen . At the end of the war, his parents, Heinz Haufe, actor, director in Stuttgart and most recently director at the Grenzlandtheater in Zittau, and his wife Carla, took their own lives while fleeing and fearing the Red Army. The attempt to take her young son with him to death failed.

education and profession

After finishing school in Berlin and Switzerland and graduating from high school in 1959, Cornelsen completed an apprenticeship as typesetter in the Ullsteinhaus and studied law and economics in Freiburg and Munich. In 1968 Cornelsen passed the first state examination in law. He then worked for a year as a publishing editor in London.

After an internship at the Frankfurter Neue Presse , he was editor of the Frankfurter Rundschau from 1972 to 1978 . From 1978 to 1986 he worked as the FR's correspondent in Bonn and, in addition to reports from Bonn, regularly wrote short comments and leading articles. As a journalist, he campaigned, among other things, for civil rights and against the radical decree , for the peace movement, for compensation for Nazi victims and for nature and environmental protection. He also often gave comments on various radio stations (including Hessischer Rundfunk ) and published articles in specialist magazines (including natur ). Cornelsen's articles in newspapers and magazines as well as his books have been quoted in school books as well as scientifically and artistically received.

From 1986 Dirk Cornelsen worked as a freelance journalist and publicist and published several books, including a balance sheet of the first parliamentary group of the Greens and an overview of environmentalists in Germany. 2003 published Cornelsen with the crushed Angel's memories of his Berlin childhood and youth and also reflections about his disturbing experiences in 1945. In the 1990s he studied parallel to its journalistic activity art history and archeology in Bonn and handed in 2012 a thesis on Francesco di Valdambrino , a Sienese carver of the early 15th century, who was accepted by the University of Bonn in 2013 . The dissertation was digitally published by the University and State Library of Bonn in 2019 .

Activity as a reciter

After training in speaking technique, Cornelsen has been performing poetry in public since 2001. He is usually accompanied by a musician (piano, flute, guitar, harp). Together with the harpist Susana Feige, Dirk Cornelsen published a CD in 2012 for the joint program Views of the Soul. This includes poems by numerous authors from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Hans Magnus Enzensberger as well as compositions by Camille Saint-Saëns , John Thomas and others. In 2013 he performed with the well-known German slam poet Bas Böttcher at a poetry slam and poetry contest in Bonn with "classic" poetry and poems by Böttcher.

Publications

  • Prosecutors in the House - The Greens in the Bundestag. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1986.
  • Nature's lawyers - environmental protection associations in Germany. Publishing house CH Beck, Munich 1991.
  • The trampled fishing game - a Berlin childhood after 1945. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2003.
  • Views of the soul. Audio CD, together with Susana Feige, 2012.
  • Francesco di Valdambrino: A Sienese sculptor of the early Quattrocento. Dissertation. University and State Library Bonn, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Cornelsen: The trampled fishing game.
  2. ^ Karl Blanck and Heinz Haufe: Unknown theater. A book from the director. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Successor, Stuttgart 1943.
  3. ^ Theodor Sonnemann: Born in 1900. Up and down in the flow of time. Life memories. Publishing house JW Naumann. Würzburg 1980. ISBN 3-88567-004-6
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Mickel (Ed.): Politics for vocational schools. Düsseldorf 1988, p. 297f
  5. ↑ A. Egner, H.-J. Friebel, G. Hepp (Ed.): People and politics. Community studies for high schools. Hanover 1989, p. 97
  6. ↑ Clarissa Schnabel: More than Anonyma. Marta Dietschy-Hillers and her group. Norderstedt, 2013. pp. 219, 229
  7. ↑ Michael Rindchen: The phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the seventies and in the first half of the eighties and the reaction of the judiciary, the public, and legislators , Munich 1999.
  8. ↑ Arnim Bechmann : Want to live. Instructions for a new environmental policy. Cologne 1984, pp. 130-131
  9. ↑ Theater project Where have you got to? of the dance theater Dialoge über die Künstlerkolonie Berlin, 2014.
  10. ^ Dirk Cornelsen: Francesco di Valdambrino. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Listening and reading, Dirk Cornelsen's website ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ When and where, website by Dirk Cornelsen
personal data
SURNAME Cornelsen, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, publicist and reciter
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart