Hans-Henning Scharsach

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Hans-Henning Scharsach (* 1943 in Vienna ) is an Austrian political journalist , publicist , anti-fascist and human rights activist. Among other things, he worked for Kurier and News , most recently as deputy editor-in-chief.

Life

Scharsach has been a journalist since the 1960s. He started as a business journalist at IW-Internationale Wirtschaft . At Vorarlberger Nachrichten , he was head of the regional and domestic policy departments. From the mid-1970s he was editor-in-chief of the Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung , from 1982 to 1990 foreign correspondent for the Styria-Verlag , responsible for the Kleine Zeitung for Styria and Carinthia and the Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung in Bonn , Brussels and East Berlin . In 1990 he became head of the foreign affairs department of the national daily newspaper Kurier and from 1994 to 2006 deputy editor-in-chief and head of the foreign affairs department of the news magazine News . In 2006 he retired and only remained active as a writer. He is an expert on right-wing extremism , right-wing populism and neo-Nazism . Some of his political non-fiction books became bestsellers. At the awarding of the professional title of Professor, Chancellery Minister Josef Ostermayer (2014) emphasized that Scharsach had “given important impulses to come to terms with our past” and “campaigned for democracy, human rights and clean journalism during his professional life and far beyond”.

Since 2012 he lives in Weng im Innkreis near Braunau am Inn .

Political commitment

In 1979, as editor-in-chief of the Neue Vorarlberger daily newspaper, he was the spokesman for civil society's resistance to the separatist (partially racist) Pro Vorarlberg initiative , which was initiated by a senior state official with a Nazi past and the editor-in-chief of Vorarlberger Nachrichten . From 1992 to 2007 he moderated the annual witness events in the Vienna Volkstheater on the anniversary of the November pogrom , during which concentration camp survivors remembered the Nazi terror and the multiple miracles of their survival. He evaluated the findings of these conversations in the book "Die Ärzte der Nazis" published in 2000.

In 1993 he was a co-organizer of the sea of lights of 250,000 for solidarity, against racism and exclusion , in response to the anti-foreigner referendum initiated by the FPÖ . In 1995 he was the organizer of a memorial exhibition in Guntramsdorf on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz . As co-initiator and spokesman for the Voices against Racism initiative , he was active during the European election campaign in 1995, in which, in addition to organizations such as the Auschwitz and Mauthausen Committee , the concentration camp association , human rights movements such as SOS Mitmensch and the League for Human Rights, numerous Celebrities from culture and science participated. In 1997 he was also an active supporter of the women's referendum and spokesman for the platform men support the women's referendum .

In 2000 he was the initiator of two criminal charges against Jörg Haider and Justice Minister Dieter Böhmdorfer (downplaying or glorifying the Waffen-SS ) as well as against Defense Minister Herbert Scheibner and Vienna's FPÖ chairman Hilmar Kabas (Nazi slogans in the Vienna election campaign) under the Reactivation Act, which through a platform made up of the concentration camp association , the camp communities Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ravensbrück , the IG authors , the League for Human Rights , SOS Mitmensch , the Democratic Offensive , the Welser campaign against fascism and representatives of Austrian cultural and intellectual life in the context of a press conference was made public.

In 2013 he was the moderator and discussant of a series of events in the reception room of the Vienna Volkstheater on the subject of racism, misogyny and right-wing extremism in the FPÖ election campaign and a discussion event in the KosmosTheater on the subject of the FPÖ's image of women (with women minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek and Freda Meissner-Blau, among others ) involved.

In addition, he was an organizer and participant in numerous memorial events for the victims of Nazi terror, in political campaigns, exhibitions, lectures and discussions, and acted as a speaker at demonstrations for human rights and against racism, including a funeral speech at the ecumenical commemoration - and funeral service for Marcus Omofuma in 1999, as a speaker at the rallies against the WKR Ball 2012 on Heldenplatz and in front of the university and at an appearance at the cultural-political Ash Wednesday 2014 organized by the SPÖ . He was a speaker at the annual Antifa demonstrations Hitler's birthday in Braunau, with which the earlier brown memorial events were displaced, and led to regular lectures on topics such as journalistic ethics, foreign policy, contemporary history, right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism, human and women's rights.

Teaching

From 1998 to 2004 he taught as a lecturer at the European Journalism Academy in Vienna (Maximilian Gottschlich), a three-semester postgraduate master’s program for young journalists from all over Europe. From 2003 to 2005 he was a lecturer at the Pedagogical Institute (PI) of the Municipality of Vienna on the subject of media skills for teachers at Vienna's general secondary schools and from 1998 to 2008 he was the head of the teaching editorial team of NEWS, a three-week orientation and training course for young journalists from all over Austria. He gave numerous lectures at universities.

Cultural engagement

In 1991 an interview with Peter Turrini and published in the "Kurier" was performed as a short one-act play at the opening of the Friulian Theater Festival. In 1996 rights story (s) followed , benefit readings together with Peter Turrini for the Integrationshaus by Dr. Kurt Ostbahn (Willi Resetarits) in the Rabenhof in Vienna : Texts on the emergence of prejudice, exclusion, violence and everyday fascism. As an author and contributor he participated in political-satirical cabaret programs part - 1983 to 1985 ensemble member and author of the Bonn cabarets Bonnoptikum . From 2012 to 2013 he conducted research and text direction for Wir und Wien , a video documentation by contemporary witnesses of post-war history for the television film production Scheiderbauer on behalf of the municipality of Vienna.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Web links

Commons : Hans-Henning Scharsach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Ostermayer: "Hans-Henning Scharsach provided important impulses for coming to terms with our past" , bka.gv.at, November 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book Prize winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019
  3. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book 2017 goes to Arundhati Roy . OTS report of January 9, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Scharsach, Hans-Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna