Elmar Kraushaar

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Elmar Kraushaar (born August 11, 1950 in Niederurff ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life and education

Born in Niederurff in northern Hesse , Elmar Kraushaar grew up in the neighboring village of Gilsa . His brother is the political scientist Wolfgang Kraushaar . He first attended the König-Heinrich-Schule in Fritzlar and then graduated from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Homberg / Efze . From 1971 to 1979 he studied Romance and German at the Free University (FU) in Berlin . In 1973/74 he worked at the University of Lille / France as "professeur assistant". In the meantime he lived in Wolfhagen - Ippinghausen .

Elmar Kraushaar lives with his partner, the journalist Hans-Hermann Kotte, in the Hansaviertel in Berlin-Tiergarten .

Political commitment

Immediately after his arrival in Berlin he became a member of Homosexual Action Westberlin (HAW), one of the most active German gay groups in the early 1970s.

Professional activities and publications

As a journalist, Elmar Kraushaar initially worked as an editor for the Berlin gay magazine Siegessäule . From 1986 he was an editor at the Berliner tageszeitung (taz) , from where he switched to RIAS TV in 1990 . In the course of the dissolution of the RIAS, he switched to DW-TV , the international television broadcaster of Deutsche Welle , in 1992 . Here he worked until 2005, first as a reporter and later in the newsroom. In addition, from 1992 to 1997 he worked as a freelancer for the news magazine Spiegel , specializing in homosexuality and AIDS . He is the author of the highly regarded monthly column The Homosexual Man ... , in which he critically examined social conditions and gay behavior and forms of organization. It first appeared from 1985 in the Victory Column , later in the Magnus and from February 1995 to December 2015 in the section The Truth in the taz . For a short time there was a female counterpart to Viola Roggenkamp until she turned to other work. Under the same title, a book with a selection from these contributions was published by Männerschwarmskript-Verlag in March 2004.

Kraushaar's first book was published by Rosa Winkel in 1977 and was entitled Schwule Lyrik - gay prose . Together with Matthias Frings , he published the books Men, Love and Hot Years at Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in 1982 . He worked on the book Liebesdinge , also edited by Rowohlt by Matthias Frings .

To this day he has worked as a book author and as a freelancer for various daily newspapers ( Frankfurter Rundschau , Berliner Zeitung , Tagesspiegel ).

As a great friend of German and international hits , he edited the book Rote Lips and published writings and CDs on well-known German hit stars.

Works

  • as publisher: Schwule Lyrik, Schwule Prosa - An anthology. Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-921495-04-0 .
  • Men, love - a handbook for gays and anyone who wants to become one. Rororo-Verlag, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-17658-0 .
  • Red lips - the whole world of German hits. Rororo Verlag, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-15087-5 .
  • Hot years. The thing about puberty. Rororo-Verlag, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-20345-6 .
  • with Matthias TJ Grimme : The unequal brothers. On the relationship between gay and straight men. Rororo-Verlag, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-18226-2 .
  • "Secondary contradictions". The new left and the gay question in the Federal Republic of the 1970s and 1980s. In: Detlef Grumbach (Ed.): The Left and Their Vices - Gay Emancipation and Left Prejudice. MännerschwarmSkriptverlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-928983-30-X .
  • Gay lists - names, dates and stories. Rororo Verlag, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-17917-2 .
  • as publisher: One hundred years of gay - a review. Rowohlt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87134-307-2 .
  • The homosexual man ... - Notes and observations from two decades. MännerschwarmSkriptverlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-935596-35-9 .
  • Freddy Quinn . An unlikely life. Atrium Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85535-390-3 .
  • Troublemaker - 40 years of gay journalism. Querverlag Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89656-245-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ munzinger.de
  2. ↑ Elmar Kraushaar: The homosexual man ... Column: "The truth". In: taz.de. June 3, 2014, accessed December 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Elmar Kraushaar: The homosexual man ... Column: "The truth". In: taz.de. December 15, 2015, accessed December 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kraushaar, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederurff