Erhard Brunn
Erhard Brunn (born March 6, 1956 in Schwerin ) is a German historian , media maker and consultant for intercultural cooperation. He became known for his contributions to understanding between cultures and religions .
Career
Erhard Brunn's family came from West Prussia, fled west in 1945, gathered in Schwerin. After the father's death (1957), the rest of the family fled via Berlin to Hamburg, where they lived in refugee accommodation. Brunn completed his Abitur in 1974 at the advanced high school Daimlerstraße in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.
He was involved in the anti-nuclear movement and in founding the Greens . After doing community service at Heidberg Hospital , Brunn studied New and Middle History in Hamburg, where he graduated in 1988 with a thesis on " CIA activities in Central America and the Caribbean in the New York Times - Reporting".
In the following years he worked as a freelance journalist (especially for church or church-related media). On a voluntary basis, he was primarily active in the Christian-Muslim dialogue in his Hamburg-Altona district and in the editorial collective for Development Policy Correspondence (EPK). In 1994 he moved to Frankfurt.
Between 1996 and 2000 he worked in the information department for the German Development Service (DED) in Uganda , and from 2003-2005 in Niger . In between, he worked for the NGO Germanwatch , which specializes in global climate issues, with a domestic DED contract. In 2007 he returned to Uganda (again for DED) to document the work of the ARP (“Arua Refugee Program”) settlements that were about to be closed. It is a large settlement project of the UN refugee organization UNHCR for southern Sudanese in northern Uganda. During that time, Brunn had founded a private project in Christian-Muslim dialogue for the German Development Service in Uganda, the journal “Together”. a. with his financial and editorial support until 2015.
Between 1999 and 2003 he managed to spark a debate about the possibilities of interreligious cooperation in development cooperation. Later he was helpful to achieve cooperation in the social field between Christian and Muslim organizations. Interreligious environmental protection and Fairtrade -Interreligious were further stations.
In intercultural media dialogue between 1997 and 2000 he focused on East African-German media dialogue, from 2007 until today German-Turkish media dialogue with increasing consideration of Arab media makers who came to Germany in recent years, or media that support them, as well as new German-Arab ones Media. Erhard Brunn has been coordinator of the “Round Table of German and Turkish Journalists Rhein-Main” since 2007, and “Round Table for Intercultural Media Dialogue Rhine-Main” since 2015.
criticism
Brunn's work in 2001 and 2002 in the European headquarters of the Islamic Community Millî Görüş (IGMG) , from whose Turkish branch also the current Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdoğan comes, was controversial , as was his praise for the reform policy of this politician until 2011 , so by Rupert Neudeck on February 12, 2007 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
Non-fiction
- Christianity and Islam - a new dialogue of action Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-86099-854-0 (Review: Erhard Brunn: Christianity and Islam - a new dialogue of action , accessed July 27, 2017)
- Across all borders - Flucht und Hilfe Dehm Verlag, Limburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-943302-39-4 (Review: Erhard Brunn: Across all borders - flight and help )
Studies
- Erhard Brunn: Arua Refugee Program: A Success Story for and by Refugees DED , Bonn 2008
- Ingelore Haepp et al. a. (Ed.), Erhard Brunn (among others): DR Congo: The War, Women and Our Cell Phones Missio, Aachen June 2015 ( Human Rights Study 59 )
Web links
- Erhard Brunn: Community radios in action for health, education and the resolution of social conflicts , accessed on July 31, 2017.
- Erhard Brunn: Web link to the journal “Together” , accessed July 27, 2017
- Erhard Brunn: Christianity and Islam - a new dialogue of action Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-86099-854-0 (Review: Erhard Brunn: Christianity and Islam - a new dialogue of action , accessed July 27, 2017 )
- Refugee Law Project: Refugees in Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement and Arua Town [1] , accessed July 29, 2017
- Erhard Brunn: Arua Refugee Program: A Success Story for and by Refugees DED , Bonn 2008
- On the “Round Table” initiative [2] , accessed July 29, 2017
- Erhard Brunn in conversation with Dr. Joachim Valentin on Islam and Christianity in Africa [3] , video accessed July 29, 2017
- Interview with Church President Volker Jung [4] , accessed July 27, 2017
- Work by Erhard Brunn with and for missio [5]
- Ingelore Haepp et al. a. (Ed.), Erhard Brunn (among others): DR Congo: The War, Women and Our Cell Phones Missio, Aachen June 2015 ( Human Rights Study 59 )
- Erhard Brunn: Helping refugees with education [6] , accessed July 29, 2017
- Erhard Brunn as organizer: An interview with editors of the Arab refugee journal "ABWAB" [7] , accessed July 29, 2017
- Erhard Brunn: Across all borders - Flucht und Hilfe Dehm Verlag, Limburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-943302-39-4 (Review: Erhard Brunn: Across all borders - Flucht und Hilfe )
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SURNAME | Brunn, Erhard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerin |