Frank Lübke (publicist)
Frank Lübke (* 1957 ) is a Swiss publicist .
The son of a homecoming Russia -Schweizers and a Jewish emigrant from Vienna graduated from the Economics Matura in Switzerland. After dropping out of law studies , he graduated from the journalism school at the Ringier publishing house , where he then worked as a journalist for nine years. He then became a freelance journalist, among others for Das Magazin , Weltwoche and Politics & Economy .
From 1999 to 2005 he was managing director of the Center against Anti-Semitism and Defamation (DAVID) in Zurich . Until the beginning of 2008 he was editor-in-chief of the Zurich Grasshopper magazine, which he had been producing since 1999. He then emigrated to Canada with his wife. The two bought and run a lodge and restaurant in Ontario.
In May 2005, Lübke was acquitted of racial discrimination (violation of the racism criminal norm ) by the Zurich Higher Court after he wrote an open letter regarding the Islamist suicide attack in Mombasa on November 28, 2002, in which three Israeli tourists and twelve Kenyans were killed to «Federal Council, Parliament, Swiss People», which read: «The heinous attacks in Kenya are the last example of the Islamist-Arab-Palestinian madness slaughter against the Jewish-Israeli civilian population. (...) Islam is clearly committed to striving for world domination. "
Frank Lübke is the author of various books, including a biography of the cartoonist Nico .
Web links
- Key data on Frank Lübke on the DAVID website.
- Literature by and about Frank Lübke in the catalog of the German National Library
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- ^ Acquittal for Islam critic Lübke applies , Tages-Anzeiger; November 4, 2005
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Luebke, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |