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

1. ^ Günter Platzdasch: In memoriam Hubert Maessen. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .