Eckart Spoo

Eckart Spoo (2011)

Eckart Spoo (born December 19, 1936 in Mönchengladbach ; † December 15, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and publicist .

Life

Eckart Spoo attended the Stiftisch-Humanist Gymnasium in Mönchengladbach until he graduated from high school in 1956. From 1962 to 1997 he was editor of the Frankfurter Rundschau ( FR ), where he often published reports that were critical of society from a left-wing socialist perspective. After FR editor Karl Gerold had dismissed him in 1972 because the newspaper had been severely attacked in the book Die Tabus der Westdeutsche Presse published by Spoo , he successfully sued for his reinstatement. In 1997 he left the editorial team at FR, founded the magazine Ossietzky together with other journalists in the same year and became its publisher and responsible editor. He also wrote for the left-wing daily Junge Welt, among others .

From 1970 to 1986 Spoo was chairman of the German Union of Journalists (dju) in the IG Druck und Papier . In 2003 he gave numerous speeches at demonstrations against the Iraq war . From 2006 to 2009 he was an appointed member of the Board of Trustees of the Movement Foundation . He was a board member of the German Holocaust Museum Foundation . Spoo last lived in Berlin.

Book publications

• Preface. In: Christian Götz : German youth to the east: The DJO-Kaderschmiede d. Nationalism. Press service of the Democratic Action, Munich, around 1970.
• as publisher: The taboos of the German press. Hanser, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-446-11400-9 .
• with Ralph Durchleuchter: School newspaper censorship in Bavaria: cases and consequences. A documentation. Ed .: Press Service Democratic Initiative; Young Press Bavaria e. V .; Specifically, the Democrat press service. Initiative; Hamburg, Munich, 1976.
• with Hasso Düvel, Werner Holtfort and Wolfgang Bittner : Sturmfest und erderwachsen. Black stories about Ernst Albrecht and the CDU. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-88243-010-9 .
• with Werner Holtfort, Rainer Butenschön and Rolf Wernstedt : The Guelphs and their treasure. Stories about Ernst August and Ernst Albrecht , Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-88243-026-5 .
• with Wolfgang Bittner and Rainer Butenschön: swept in front of the door. New stories from Lower Saxony . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-88243-059-1 .
• as editor: How next? Plea for a socialist Federal Republic. Galgenberg, Hamburg, 1988, ISBN 3-925387-39-0 .
• as Ed .: The Americans in the Federal Republic: Occupying Power or Alliance Partner? Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 1989, ISBN 3-462-01992-9 .
• with Jürgen Hogrefe (ed.): Lower Saxony scandal chronicle from Albrecht to Vajen. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-88243-152-0 .
• as publisher: KohlZeit: A Chancellor and his Germany. PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne, 1991, ISBN 3-89438-013-6 .
• as ed. Essays by Hans Bleibinhaus among others: Fetish property: How private are land? Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1992, ISBN 3-446-11567-6 .
• with Reinhard Kühnl : What should become of Germany. Concepts of resistance, exile and the allies . Distel Verlag, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-929348-06-3 .
• with Arno Klönne and Rainer Butenschön: The long farewell to socialism . VSA Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-87975-752-6 .
• with Rainer Butenschön (ed.): The human being & the plan: A century balance of communism. VSA-Verlag Hamburg, 2000, ISBN 3-87975-794-1 .
• with Wolfgang Richter and Elmar Schmähling : The truth about the NATO war against Yugoslavia. Schkeuditzer Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-9806705-2-X .
• as Ed. Arno Klönne (Mitw.): Taboos of West German history. Ossietzky, Hannover 2006, ISBN 3-9808137-4-6 .

literature

• Werner Rügemer : Eckart Spoo b. 1936. In: From the printing association to the unified union. 150 years ver.di . Berlin 2016, pp. 108-109.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckart Spoo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eckart Spoo: Speech at the Easter March Hanover, April 10, 2004: “I have no enemy in the Hindu Kush against whom I would have to be defended preventively”. Website of the Peace Co-op network , accessed on December 16, 2016.
• Eckart Spoo: “How humanitarian are our wars?” On YouTube Lecture in Marburg 2011 (13:49 minutes).
• Eckart Spoo: Address in front of the ARD capital office, May 31, 14 . Speech on the occasion of the demo "Ukraine: Stop escalation and impending war", in which he accused Kai Gniffke of partisan reporting and "war propaganda" (PDF; 54 kB).
• Eckhard Spoo on Ukraine: One-sided reporting on YouTube Lecture in the consulting room, June 27, 2014 (14:03 minutes)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Springstein: A farewell: Eckart Spoo died . In: Friday . December 15, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2016.
   Ulla Jelpke: Ossietzky: Journalist and publicist Eckart Spoo died . Ulla Jelpke's website, December 15, 2016, accessed December 16, 2016.
2. ^ Professional: Eckart Spoo . In: Der Spiegel . 20/1972, p. 172, accessed December 16, 2016.
3. ↑ Imprint Ossietzky , accessed on December 16, 2016.
4. ↑ Homepage of the Foundation ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2015 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. , Access date: December 16, 2016.