Hans Halter

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Hans Halter (born April 8, 1938 in Bad Muskau ) is a German medical journalist and author .

Life

Hans Halter studied medicine and is a licensed specialist in skin and venereal diseases . After working as a doctor for a while, he went into journalism in 1972. He was a reporter for Der Spiegel for more than 30 years , working mainly on medical topics. In 1982 he was the first German-speaking journalist to report on the immunodeficiency disease AIDS .

After 1983 a long-standing, sometimes controversial discussion about AIDS developed. Halter was of the opinion that AIDS is a deadly dangerous infectious disease whose "engine" is "promiscuity". In 1986, Halter was the first in the world to report on the decoding of the AIDS virus. He also published in the scientific journal AIDS research on the situation of infected hemophiliacs and gave detailed interviews to several gay scene magazines, such as the Berlin Victory Column .

In 1983 he was awarded the Egon-Erwin-Kisch Prize for his OP report The donor heart must not die in the mirror . Halter is the author and editor of around twenty books (selected from works ). Today he lives in Berlin and works as a freelance writer. During his time as a medical student in Berlin, he worked for months as an escape helper after the Wall was built in 1961 , as only became known in 2011 through an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Award and controversy

Three decades after the AIDS controversy of the 1980s, in 2013, the Schwule Netzwerk NRW e. V. the editors of the news magazine Der Spiegel , who “for many decades” had helped to shape the discourse “with people-affirming reports on homosexuality that corresponded to the time in question” with the compass needle . With the award of the compass needle , the association has been honoring personalities or institutions who “have made a special contribution to promoting the social acceptance of gays and lesbians” since 2001.

The award of the mirror by the Schwule Netzwerk NRW met with the Deutsche Aidshilfe e. V. to criticism. In January 2013, the association published a statement on its website in which it distances itself from the award ceremony and criticizes the "unspeakable reporting by 'SPIEGEL' at the height of the AIDS crisis". Der Spiegel had "promoted the worst resentment against gay men", in particular Hans Halter had "drawn the image of promiscuous gay men" at regular intervals, "who satisfied their instincts regardless of their own health."

The Schwule Netzwerk NRW responded in March 2013 with a statement that the criticism expressed about the Spiegel award was “not unexpected”. That is why the press release on the award ceremony contained a reference to the “learning process” of the mirror itself, which began with a “not always appropriate” approach to gay men. The head of department Markus Verbeet accepted the compass needle on July 6, 2013 on behalf of the editorial offices of Spiegel and Spiegel online .

Works

As a Spiegel reporter (the relevant AIDS articles from the 1980s):

  • Fright from over there . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1982, pp. 187–189 ( online - May 31, 1982 , the first publication about AIDS in Germany before the disease was identified as AIDS - the term AIDS does not appear in the article).
  • The sadness increases. Reactions of the Berlin homosexual scene to AIDS . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1983, pp. 156 f . ( online - June 6, 1983 , The first Spiegel cover story Deadly Plague AIDS. The Enigmatic Disease).
  • "I am en Tunt, am kernjesund". SPIEGEL reporter Hans Halter on homosexuals' fear of the AIDS epidemic . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1984, pp. 130-134 ( Online - July 16, 1984 ).
  • AIDS: "The bomb is planted" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1984, pp. 100-114 ( Online - Nov. 5, 1984 ).
  • with Wolfgang Sternsdorff: SPIEGEL conversation "Five years in quarantine?" Professor Manfred Steinbach on epidemic police measures against the spread of AIDS . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1984, pp. 28-32 ( Online - Dec. 24, 1984 ).
  • House announcement - Subject: Title . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1985, pp. 3 ( online - August 12, 1985 , the in-house message applies to the second Spiegel cover story, AIDS and love , supervised by Hans Halter . What risk? And deals with allegations expressed (“ scaremongering, promoting prejudice, aiding and abetting persecution of a repeatedly persecuted minority - SPIEGEL was accused of all of this when it dealt with the topic of AIDS in several articles in 1983 and 1984 ") and rejects it).
  • "We have to go the stony road". SPIEGEL reporter Hans Halter on AIDS virus research in Germany . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1986, pp. 213–237 ( online - April 28, 1986 , the article is part of the third Spiegel cover story AIDS. The riddled virus - race for the vaccine and reports for the first time on a vaccine against AIDS).

As book author (selection):

  • I've done my thing here - the lives and last words of famous women and men. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-8270-0697-X .
  • War of the jugglers - the failure of the German secret services. Steidl-Verlag, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-88243-246-2 .
  • Your rights as a patient - fundamental judgments, case studies, legal recourse, self-help groups. Econ, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-612-21200-1 .
  • The big ADAC health book . ADAC-Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-87003-202-2 . (Also published as Das Großes Gesundheitsbuch . Orbis-Verlag, Munich 1991.)

As editor:

  • Death plague AIDS . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-499-33067-9 .
  • Be careful, doctor! - the crisis of modern medicine, together with Klaus Franke, Gisela Oehlert, and Jürgen-Peter Stössel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-33010-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Bölsche: Editorial. In: Der Spiegel Special 07/1996. July 1, 1996, p. 3 , accessed February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ rearview mirror . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1986, pp. 194 ( Online - Jan. 13, 1986 ).
  3. ↑ The engine of the plague. A conversation with Hans Halter . In: Victory Column . AIDS special, December 1985, p. 34.
  4. ↑ Re: Title "AIDS - The Decrypted Virus. Race for the vaccine ” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1986, pp. 3 ( Online - Apr. 28, 1986 ).
  5. ↑ Hans Halter: "The injustice that happens to an individual is a threat to everyone." On the situation of HIV-infected haemophiles in France and Germany . In: Aids -forschung (AIFO), Issue 2, February 1993, pp. 62–64.
  6. ↑ The engine of the plague. A conversation with Hans Halter . In: Victory Column . AIDS special, December 1985, pp. 33–34.
  7. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners , online at http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/buecher/509895.html
  8. ↑ In the Cadillac across all borders . Review by Hans Halter of Burkart Veigel's escape aid book Paths through the Wall , published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 227 on October 1, 2011, page 12. Under the review is the editorial addition: “The journalist Hans Halter lives in Berlin and has worked himself as an escape helper at the time. "
  9. ↑ Schwules Netzwerk NRW: The winners of the Kompassnadel 2013 , online at https://schwules-netzwerk.de/kompassnadel-2013-die-preistrager
  10. ↑ Schwules Netzwerk NRW: Kompassnadel , online at https://schwules-netzwerk.de/kompassnadel
  11. ↑ Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe criticizes SPIEGEL's acceptance award . Declaration by the German Aids Aid from January 28, 2013, online at https://www.aidshilfe.de/meldung/deutsche-aids-hilfe-kritisiert-auszeichnung-spiegel-akzeptanz-preis
  12. ^ Opinion on the criticism of SPIEGEL as the winner of the Kompassnadel 2013 . Declaration by the NRW gay network of March 14, 2013, online at https://schwules-netzwerk.de/stellungnahme-zur-kritik-an-den-spiegel-als-preistrager-der-kompassnadel-2013/#more-281
  13. ↑ "We are ready to talk" . Dr. Markus Verbeet in conversation with the NRW gay network, online at https://schwules-netzwerk.de/wir-sind-ja-verschachsbereit/#more-617
personal data
SURNAME Halter, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Muskau