Hubert Maessen
Hubert Maessen (born January 10, 1947 in Düsseldorf ; † January 19, 2015 ) was a Dutch political scientist and author who worked in Germany .
Maessen grew up in Germany. He was a school newspaper editor at the Comenius High School in Düsseldorf. He studied political science, sociology and philosophy at the University of Marburg and the Ruhr University Bochum . Maessen was the author and editor of several books on current affairs, for example What do the students want? ' What do the apprentices want? , Conscientious objection , ... and then you come home - living and living in the precinct . Since the late 1960s he has been a permanent employee of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, author of numerous articles in the ZeitZeichen series , many features and television films, as well as moderator in programs on current affairs and commentator on programs on WDR and Deutschlandfunk . In addition, he made a detour into politics with temporary campaign advice, for example for Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the 1976 election campaign - and others, also abroad.
On June 23, 1991, the director Michael Pflegehar committed suicide in Maessen's Düsseldorf apartment.
In 1992 he was made an honorary citizen of Little Rock , Arkansas .
Maessen, who was married for the second time since 1999, had two children from his first marriage and 12 stepchildren from his second marriage.
Book publications
- The NPD - structure, program and ideology of a neo-fascist party . Voltaire, Berlin 1967 (with Reinhard Kühnl and others).
- What do the students want? Politics in the classroom . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1969 (with Hans-Jürgen Haug ).
- What do the apprentices want? S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1971 (Hans-Jürgen Haug).
- Conscientious objectors. Against the militarization of society . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1971 (with Hans-Jürgen Haug).
- The sprayer from Zurich. Cologne Dance of Death . Photographic documentation with comments on Harald Naegeli's work in Cologne . Bookstore Walther König, Cologne 1982 (book design: Betty Grünberg).
- Harry Walter : 60 - The biography of the father of political advertising in Germany . ISAP (Institute for Strategy, Analysis and Planning), Neuss 1989 (book design: Betty Grünberg).
- ... and then you come home. Living in the Revier - the 75-year history of the trust agency . Berg, Bochum 1995.
- Place, deer! - The hidden commands of our language . Eichborn Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2001 (with Jakob Moeller).
- The direction is right . In: Rudi Schweikert (Ed.): I was blown away - Arno Schmidt as a formative reading experience . Bangert & Metzler, Wiesenbach 2004.
- Karl-Heinz Cox (Ed.): Nordstern becomes THS - structural change, built, in the area . Rehrmann, Gelsenkirchen 2004 (editing and proofreading).
- Reinvent the wheel again and again, Rheinbahn vehicles - from the beginning to the present day . Rheinbahn, Düsseldorf 2006.
- Carsten Kossow, Dieter Larraß: Decades in a Century . Anniversary book for Vossloh Kiepe Düsseldorf. In: 100 years of Kiepe - innovation that moves . Icon-Management, Düsseldorf 2006 (editing and proofreading).
- Kölner Totentanz in: Carlo McCormick, Marc and Sara Schiller, Ethel Seno: Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art . Taschen, Cologne 2010.
Radio and tv
- Panoptikum , monthly radio collage, NDR / WDR 1968 - 1975 (together with: Henryk M. Broder , Hans-Jürgen Haug, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser , Rosa Pape, Gretel Rieber, Tom Schroeder , Joachim Sonderhoff )
- It happened in the neighboring house , details on the youth bestseller by Willi Fährmann , radio feature, WDR 1968
- Second hand politics , radio feature (together with Hans-Jürgen Haug), WDR 1969
- Joseph Beuys is not dismissed , Radiofeature, WDR 1972
- Handcuff flowers , radio feature about culture in prison , WDR 1973
- The line that makes the opinion - cartoonists in Germany, radio feature, WDR 1973
- The man who saved Willy Brandt - Julius Steiner in front of the committee , reportage essay, WDR 1973
- No rest in the cartoon , three-part television documentary about cartoonists and drawn people, SFB 1973/74
- Alternative service: against conscientious objection? , Radiofeature, WDR 1975
- Sexuality and the prison system (How to not only deprive freedom, but double punishment) , Radiofeature, WDR 1975
- The rat king at the prosecutor's office , radio feature, WDR 1976
- Mrs. Fuchs looks after the Drake - or: How Donald Duck gets into German , radio feature, WDR 1977
- For tea with Albert Speer and Jean Amery , reportage essay, WDR 1978
- Peggy Parnass holds court , Radiofeature, WDR 1979
- At second glance: May 1st , radio feature, WDR 1980
- The terrorist himself: HJ Klein speaks from underground , radio feature, WDR 1981
- NDW - the Neue Deutsche Welle and its texts , radio feature in two parts, WDR 1982
- Monopoly - how capitalism became a game , radio feature of the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1982
- From today Chancellor: Helmut Kohl in mother's chair , radiogram, WDR 1982
- The drive-in cinema - Hollywood in the mobile intimate space , radio feature of the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1983
- Einstein's theory of relativity - so that even physics teachers understand it , radio feature of the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1984
- Today is the end of the world , radio feature of the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1984
- Groschengrab - the invention of the parking meter , radio feature of the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1985
- The Battle of Trafalgar , audio image in the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1985
- Hermann Göring - the suicide , radio feature of the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1986
- Die Halbstarken , radio feature in the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1986
- Requiem for Uwe Barschel , radio feature, WDR 1987
- It appears: Die Bild-Zeitung , radio feature in the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1987
- Günter Grass to listen to , radio feature, WDR 1987
- Music furniture pieces - Erik Satie and the contemporary Muzak ambience , radio feature, WDR 1988
- Richard Wagner and the love of animals , radio feature, WDR 1988
- Power in fantasy - the 68 culture , radio collage in the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1988
- Motor fan Adolf Hitler wants a VW , radio feature, WDR 1988
- 725 years of official bowling , radio feature in the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1990
- The night in jail - a self-experiment , report essay, WDR 1991
- Mask of the good - the American film actor Boris Karloff , radio feature of the ZeitZeichen series , WDR 1992
- Pomp, Duck And Circumstance - Circus with Knife and Fork , Radiofeature, WDR 1993
- AD like ArtDirector - wearing jeans and getting drunk , radio essay, WDR 1994
- Waiting for the (sun) turn , radio essay, WDR 1994
- With Vuitton suitcases on top - also with the sinking of the Titanic , Radio-Essay, WDR 1996
- German anthem - a case for the dead pants , radio essay, WDR 1998
- Let there be darkness - solar eclipse over D , radio essay, WDR 1999
- The egg-boiling laptop - on technology and politics, radio essay, WDR 2000
- To see again in 2001? Now finally see properly! , Notes on the relaunch of Kubrick's film 2001 - A Space Odyssey in Critical Diary , WDR 2001
- The United Nations: passed out into agony , radio essay in the series Subjects of the Time , WDR 2003
- How the painter Immendorff turned green and blue , radio essay, WDR 2004
- Germany and Poland: A New Touch of the Cold War? , Radio essay in the series Alte und neue Heimat , WDR 2004
- A network for fishing , radio essay in the series Alte und neue Heimat , WDR 2005
- The song of solidarity or: do we need a new left? Radio essay in the series Thoughts at the Time , NDR / WDR 2005
- Benedict XVI. in the land of Hartz-IV , in Topics of the Week , Deutschlandfunk 2005
- What is justice , Notes on the 96th German Catholic Day, Deutschlandfunk 2006
- Church versus condom - what else ?! , Commentary on Pope Benedict XVI's first trip to Africa and his statement about the use of condoms. [1] , WDR 2009
Web links
- Literature by and about Hubert Maessen in the catalog of the German National Library
- WDR information on Maessen ( Memento from July 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Platzdasch: In memoriam Hubert Maessen. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Maessen, Hubert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch political scientist, author and editor of non-fiction books |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
DATE OF DEATH | 19th January 2015 |