Harald Wessel

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Harald Wessel (born February 12, 1930 in Wuppertal ; † August 16, 2021 in Blankenfelde-Mahlow near Berlin) was a German editor, journalist and book author.

Life

Harald Wessel was born in Wuppertal in 1930 as the son of a worker. In 1946/47 he worked as a functionary of the Free German Youth in Thuringia . In 1948 he joined the SED . He began to study biology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1948/49 . He was an employee in the Ministry for Popular Education (GDR) (1955/58). A postgraduate at the Humboldt University of Berlin , he finished 1959 with a doctorate to the Dr. phil. From 1963 to 1990 he was a member of the editorial board of New Germany. There he was head of the department for propaganda and science. From 1981 to 1990 he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of New Germany. He appeared in numerous articles against Soviet perestroika . Harald Wessel was a member of the youth commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED . From 1990 he wrote as a freelance journalist primarily for the daily newspaper “ Junge Welt ”. In addition to his journalistic work, Wessel wrote numerous books on various topics, including several biographies. Wessel died in August 2021 at the age of 91.

Honors

Fonts

  • Teleology in nature. Fundamental objections to the font of the same name v. Friedrich Dessauer . Young World, Berlin 1957.
  • Günter Ostmann, Harald Wessel: Is man created by God? 1st - 150th Thousand Dietz Verlag , Berlin 1958.
  • Cross and federal eagle . 1st - 150th Thousand Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958.
  • About the dialectic of organic being. An examination of finalistic attempts to interpret life events . Berlin 1959. (Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 1959).
  • Faith in God and freedom of spirit. Five radio lectures . Introduction by Harald Wessel. 1st – 10th Thousand Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1960.
  • Viruses, miracles, contradictions. A pamphlet on the philosophical problems of modern biology . 1-5 Th. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1961. Translation into Russian 1965.
  • IT Frolow : causality and expediency in living nature. A sketch of the philosophical debates in modern biology. Edited by Harald Wessel. Translation by Hans Weller. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften , Berlin 1963. (= paperback series Unser Weltbild 35).
  • Philosophy of the piecemeal. An examination of the neo-positivist "critical rationalism" . Akademie Verlag , Berlin 1971. (= On the criticism of bourgeois ideology . Ed. By Manfred Buhr. Volume 11).
    • Philosophy of the piecemeal. An examination of the neo-positivist "critical rationalism" . Verlag Marxistische Blätter , Frankfurt am Main 1971. (= On the criticism of bourgeois ideology . Ed. By Manfred Buhr . Volume 11).
    • For the seventies - a piecemeal philosophy? Critical comments on an article by the Mannheim neo-positivist Hans Albert . Facit e. V., Neumünster 1971. (= Facit series. MSB Spartakus . Contributions to Marxist theory and politics , vol. 6).
  • House visit to Friedrich Engels . A journey on his life path . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1971. Previously published in individual articles in Neues Deutschland .
  • 'And branches with blue raisins'. Travel journal . Verlag der Nation , Berlin 1972.
  • Tussy or twenty-five letters about the very eventful life of Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Written in January 1973 in various locations in Brighton, Stratford, Derby and Manchester, in Leipzig, Halle, Karlovy Vary but mostly on the beach of the Thames. Addressed to a woman of our day . Verlag für die Frau , Leipzig 1974. Review: Manfred Kliem. In: unity. Journal for Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975. ISSN  0013-2659 , Issue 9, pp. 1066-1068.
    • Tussy or twenty-seven letters about the very eventful life of Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Written in January 1973 and in March 1975 in various locations, in Brighton, Stratford, Derby and Manchester, on Ufenau in Lake Zurich, in Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Karlovy Vary, but mostly on the beach of the Thames. Addressed to a woman of our day . 2nd ext. Ed. Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1974.
    • Tussy or twenty-five letters about the very eventful life of Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Written in January 1973 and in March 1975 in various locations, in Brighton, Stratford, Derby and Manchester in Paris and New York on Ufnau in Lake Zurich in Leipzig, Halle, Karlovy Vary on the Moselle and Spree but mostly on the beach the Thames, but mostly on the beach of the Thames. Addressed to a woman of our day . 3. substantially exp. Ed. Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1978. Translations 1978 Hungarian and Czech, 1983 Bulgarian.
    • Tussy or thirty letters about the very eventful life of Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Written between 1973 and 1980 in various locations, in Brighton, Stratford, Derby and Manchester, in Paris, New York and Scheveningen, on Ufnau in Lake Zurich, in Leipzig, Halle, Karlovy Vary, on the Moselle and Spree, in North Sea regions, but mostly on the banks of the Thames. Addressed to a woman of our day . 4. edit Ed. Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1982.
  • Marginalia on MEGA and marginal glosses on old and new "Marxologists" . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1977 (= On the criticism of bourgeois ideology . Ed. By Manfred Buhr, Volume 80) Page no longer available , search in web archives: table of contents@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bvbr.bib-bvb.de
    • Marginalia on MEGA and marginal glosses on old and new "Marxologists" . Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1977 (= On the criticism of bourgeois ideology . Ed. By Manfred Buhr, Volume 80)
  • Irina Pechernikova: Education in the Marx family . From the soot. trans. by Helga Gutsche. To a family chronicle and photo supplements by Harald Wessel. People and Knowledge , Berlin 1978.
  • John Reed . Red Reporter from the Wild West, Biographical Travel Letters . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1979.
  • Walther Victor : General and the women. From experience to theory . Reprint d. Orig. Berlin 1932. Edited and commented by Harald Wessel. Central antiquariat of the GDR, Leipzig 1982.
  • Jacob Holdt : American Pictures. A trip through black America. From the Danish by Peter Jacobi. With a comment by Harald Wessel . Publishing house Volk und Welt. Berlin 1980.
  • Klaus Haupt, Harald Wessel: Kisch was here. Reports about the 'mad reporter' . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1985. (2nd, revised and expanded edition. 1988) Table of contents
  • Munzenberg's end. A German communist in the resistance against Hitler and Stalin. The years 1933 to 1940 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1991. 3-320-01743-8 Table of contents
  • The pawn sacrifice. Necessary remarks on Otto Emil Runge's last confessions . In: Utopia creative . No. 7, 1991, pp. 74-81.
  • Behind the scenes of the “Red Dream Factory” . In: Journal of the SED State Research Association , Halle / Saale, 32 (2012), pp. 163–172. ISSN  0948-9878

source

literature

  • What does Harald Wessel actually do? In: Monika Zimmermann (Ed.): What actually does ...? 100 GDR celebrities today . Christian Links, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-86153-064-3 , p. 286 ff. Partially digitalized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press portal from August 17, 2021: Journalist and author Harald Wessel died , accessed on August 17, 2021
  2. ↑ On the dialectic of organic being. An examination of finalistic attempts to interpret life events .
  3. ↑ Review by Helmut Hirsch : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 23, 1980.
  4. ↑ Review: Rita R. Thalmann. In: Francia . ISSN  0937-7751 volume. 20 / 3.1993, pp. 270-271. on-line
personal data
SURNAME Wessel, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, editor and book author
BIRTH DATE February 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Mahlow- Blankenfelde near Berlin