Hans-Georg Behr

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Hans-Georg Behr (* 1937 in Vienna ; † July 8, 2010 in Hamburg ) was an Austrian journalist and non-fiction author.

Life

After attending the Abbey High School in Melk , Behr studied medicine, psychology and history. At first he worked on various therapeutic projects. As a journalist, he wrote especially for magazines such as Der Spiegel , Die Zeit , Stern , GEO , TransAtlantik and Kursbuch . Since 1955 he has traveled extensively to the Near and Far East ; For a long time he lived in Kathmandu , where he was adopted. He supported the biological son of his adoptive parents with his studies in Europe and encouraged them to donate a Ganesh shrine to his adoptive brother's medical exam . In 1990 the Hamburg Horticultural Office allowed the construction of a shrine a little over two meters high for the Nepalese elephant god. Since then, it has been on the so-called Schinkelplatz (corner of Schinkelstrasse / Peter-Marquard-Strasse) in Hamburg-Winterhude .

In addition to reporting on the countries he visited, Hans-Georg Behr worked a lot on the topics of drug trafficking and organized crime . As an avowed consumer, Behr advocated the decriminalization of or a more relaxed approach to cannabis . He last lived in Hamburg.

Works

Non-fiction

  • The hashish cookbook . Melzer, Darmstadt 1970.
  • The Austrian provocation. A warning call for Germans . Moos, Munich 1971. (2nd revised edition, Graefelfing 1987)
  • Sons of the desert. Caliphs, Merchants and Scholars . Econ, Vienna / Düsseldorf 1975.
  • Nepal, gift from the gods. Encounters in and with the most amazing country in the world . Econ, Vienna / Düsseldorf 1976.
  • The Mughals. Power and splendor of the Indian emperors from 1369–1857 . Econ, Vienna / Düsseldorf 1979.
  • World power drug. The business of addiction . Econ, Vienna / Düsseldorf 1980.
  • There is talk of hemp. Culture and politics of a drug . Sphinx, Basel 1982.
    • Completely revised new edition: Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-86150-093-0 .
  • All cabbage and what you can make from it. Recipes for bad times . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983.
  • with Herbert Grohmann and Bernd-Olaf Hagedorn: character heads. The FX Messerschmidt case . How crazy can art be? Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 1983.
    • New edition as The Art of Mimicry. Franz X. Messerschmidt and his characters. ibid. 1989.
  • Organized crime . Econ, Vienna / Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-430-11286-9 .
  • Our underworlds. Reports and highlights . Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1986.

Fiction

  • I love the opera. A bourgeois life in 2 acts plus 2 overtures and 1 tableau (for pretty much everyone & our prosecutors & our other fellow citizens) . Stage manuscript. Vienna 1969.
  • Advertisement for Antigone. A full evening snack . Stage manuscript. Vienna 1969.
  • Winifred and Wolf. A historical farce with singing for an actress and two actors (one of whom can also play the piano) . With an essay by Karl Markus Michel . Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Almost a Childhood Autobiographical Novel. (= The Other Library . 212). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • Almost a nomad . Zsolnay, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-552-05392-2 .
  • Kathmandu : Newar do not mourn. In: Geo-Magazin . 2, 1979, pp. 122-148. Informative report about the customs of the Newar . ISSN  0342-8311

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Georg Behr> Almost a nomad. A review by Franz Krahlberger. P. 1 , accessed September 30, 2012 .
  2. ^ Gudrun Maurer: Legendary places in Hamburg. Via Reise Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-935029-53-7 , p. 93.
personal data
SURNAME Behr, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2010
Place of death Hamburg