Henning von Löwis of Menar

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Henning von Löwis of Menar , also Henning von Löwis , (born March 23, 1948 in Freiburg an der Elbe ) is a German writer , journalist , editor and correspondent . He worked u. a. for Radio Portugal , in Namibia , for Deutschlandfunk (DLF) and for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

Life

Henning von Löwis of Menar comes from an old Scottish-Baltic noble family . His father Werner Theodor von Löwis of Menar was a newspaper reporter and later a photographer , his mother came from a shipowner's family . He delivered his first literary work shortly after school, he worked as a cabin boy and reported on his experiences.

Career

Since 1966 he was a freelancer for the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR). His studies in Political Science , Public Law and Lusitanistics he graduated from 1968 to 1972 at the University of Hamburg . From 1968 to 1974 he was also a freelancer for Radio Portugal ( Emissora Nacional ) in Lisbon . With the thesis "bilateralism and multilateralism in foreign policy of Portugal since 1945" doctorate he 1976 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.). From 1973 to 1983 he was a research assistant to Professor Hans-Peter Schwarz at the Research Institute for Political Science and European Issues at the University of Cologne . In 1984 he took over the management of the research area European and German Policy at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and at the same time worked until 1986 as a journalist for international relations, as an employee of DLF and Deutsche Welle (DW) and as a correspondent for the South West African Broadcasting Company in Bonn . From 1984 to 1989 he was a lecturer for international relations and foreign policy in the GDR at the University of Cologne. Since 1987 he has been an editor in the east-west department of the DLF and in 1989 he became a correspondent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In 1991 he took over reporting from the Baltic States and Kaliningrad for the DLF and WDR, and since 1994 he has been editor of the DLF (background department).

Honors

Works (selection)

Books :

  • Cuba's Beetle: Hasta Siempre from Henning von Löwis from Motorbuch (August 27, 2014)
  • I would have liked to stay. The life of Friedrich von Löwis of Menar (Ed.), Von Hinstorff / PRO (December 7, 2005)
  • Namibia in the East-West Conflict, Science and Politics, Cologne (1983)
  • Church taxes for guerrilla fighters? - The Namibia controversy in the Evangelical Church. A documentation. Reprint from "Contributions to Conflict Research" (15th year; Issue 3; 1985)

Audio CDs :

  • The myth of Königsberg or all roads lead to Kant by Henning von Löwis of Menar von Hinstorff (July 5, 2005)
  • Königsberg History and Stories of an Immortal City [Audio-CD] by Author: Dr. Henning von Löwis of Menar by Polar-Film (December 23, 2008)
  • The long way back to Balga - search for traces in Russian East Prussia by Author: Dr. Henning von Löwis of Menar from Polarfilm (June 26, 2007)
  • From Königsberg to Memel: In the footsteps of Queen Luise in East Prussia by Polar Film Medien GmbH (August 2010)

Calendar :

  • FACES OF RUSSIA 2015 (desk calendar 2015): Famous Russians and expressive faces of Russia ... October 2014
  • TILSIT 2015 COBETCK (wall calendar 2015): Tilsit: Prussian past and Russian present ... 2. November 2014
  • Convertible dreams in Havana (desk calendar 2016 DIN A5 landscape): US convertibles from the 1950s in Cuba (monthly calendar) ... 14. May 2015
  • MONASTERY ISLAND VALAAM 2016 (desk calendar 2016): Monastery island of Valaam - Russia's "Athos of the North" ... 17. May 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henning von Löwis received the German-Russian Peter Boenisch Memorial Prize in Moscow on November 14, 2012 for journalists of the "Petersburg Dialogue" [1]
personal data
SURNAME Löwis of Menar, Henning von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwis, Henning von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist, journalist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg / Elbe