Hans-Werner Gille

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Hans-Werner Gille (also Werner Gille ; born May 18, 1928 in Glogau , Silesia ) is a German historian, author and journalist.

Life

Hans-Werner Gille is the son of the banker Adolf Gille and Charlotte Gille, née Seidel. In January 1945 he fled his hometown of Glogau, which was completely destroyed two weeks later. After the end of the war he stayed in Delitzsch near Leipzig. In the summer of 1946 he moved to Bavaria. There he worked for the US military government in Dillingen and Neu-Ulm until 1948 , then as an interpreter at the Counter Intelligence Corps in Neu-Ulm, and from 1950 to 1952 as an interpreter at the US military court and at the Munich police headquarters.

Gille studied from 1950 to 1952 at the University of Political Sciences in Munich . It was the only degree that was possible in post-war Germany without an Abitur. After graduating from high school for talented students on December 3, 1956, before the Stuttgart High School Authority, he studied modern and medieval history , Eastern European history , Slavic studies and philosophy at the University of Tübingen from 1956 to 1958 . From 1958 to 1964 he continued his studies at the University of Munich . Gille completed semesters abroad in 1952 and 1956 at the University of Barcelona and in 1952 at the Wilton Park Program , London. In 1964 he received his doctorate on the topic: " Theodor von Bernhardi as a connoisseur of Russia". In 1966 he married Eva Gille, née Korte.

Long trips to many countries on all continents were decisive for Gille. He was shaped by stays with Indian tribes on the Rio Camanau (tributary of the Rio Negro / Amazonas, 1966), in the People's Republic of China at the time of the Cultural Revolution (1967), as well as trips through Mongolia (1974), Siberia (1974), Alaska (1976) ), Australia (1980), southern Africa (between Okavango and Zambezi, 1982), Nepal / Bhutan (1982) and Malaysia / Borneo (1989).

Hans-Werner Gille has been recording his experiences in diary entries since 1942. They now comprise 85 volumes. After his death they become the property of the Monacensia . Gille is a member of the Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education. In 2003 he visited his hometown Glogau for the first time since the expulsion.

Journalistic activity

From 1966 to 1968 Hans-Werner Gille was editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine "das profil", Munich, and from 1972 to 1977 of "Evangelischer Digest", Munich. From winter term 1967/68 to winter term 1968/69 he held lectures at the University of Political Sciences in Munich on "Today's China"; he reported on the cultural revolution in numerous lectures . In 1967, Gille was one of the very few Western journalists who managed to obtain an entry permit to China.

From 1965 to 2004 he worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk for the departments of culture, audio, politics and radio knowledge. Gille is the author of numerous radio programs on historical-political topics, with country reports and city portraits as well as audio portraits of artists and historical personalities. Topics of his seminars and lectures are: history, literature, religion, world cultures and world history, countries and peoples. He is a member of the International Press Club Munich .

Publications

  • Nation today. Problems of state consciousness and national feeling. Bavarian State Center for Political Education, Munich 1966 (4th edition 1977).
  • Catholics against Rome. Olzog, Munich 1969.
  • Politics, State and Nation in the Third World. Problems of Nationalism in Developing Countries. Bavarian State Center for Political Education, Munich 1970 (3rd edition 1974).
  • Play Bluff or The Crooked Way Up. From the confessions of a financial genius. Bechtle, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7628-0159-2 (novel).
  • Moscow, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Siberia. Report on the trip of a Bavarian business delegation to the USSR. Bavarian Society for the Promotion of Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union, Munich 1976.
  • The face of China. Welsermühl, Wels 1976, ISBN 3-85339-128-1 (translated into Swedish and Dutch).
  • Siberia. Land of ice and tears. Treasury of the Soviet Union. Welsermühl, Wels 1978, ISBN 3-85339-148-6 .
  • Australia. The largest island in the world. A continent on the move. Welsermühl, Wels 1981, ISBN 3-85339-169-9 .
  • Contribution in: Josef M. Häußling et al. (Ed.): Three questions about Germany. 58 answers. Knaus, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-8135-1252-5 .
  • The Middle East. Europe's foreign neighbors. Welsermühl, Wels 1988, ISBN 3-85339-198-2 .
  • I looked for Abel's grave and other globetrotter stories. Langen Müller, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7844-2285-3 (paperback edition 1991).
  • Volga trip. Searching for traces in today's Russia. Langen Müller, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7844-2418-X (2nd edition 1993).
  • Dark is the color of homesickness. A story of flight and reconciliation. Herbig, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7766-2768-8 .
  • In the slipstream of the red storm. The Chinese Cultural Revolution - an eyewitness account. Herbig, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7766-2778-7 .

Photo exhibition picture oases. See strangers - find yourself. Photos and texts from China, Japan, Russia, Bhutan. Munich 2006/07.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "das profil", magazine for politics. Economy and culture. Munich 1966–1968, publisher “das profil” GmbH
  2. ^ "Evangelischer Digest", editor Willy Schleunung, Munich 1972–1977
personal data
SURNAME Gille, Hans-Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gille, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau , Silesia