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Hugo Stamm (born March 29, 1949 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss journalist for the Swiss news portal watson.ch . From the 1970s to 2016, he worked for the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger on new religious movements , sects , esotericism , occultism and charlatans . He has given numerous lectures on these topics in German-speaking countries and has written several non-fiction books and a novel.

Life

Hugo Stamm grew up in Schaffhausen. After the teachers' seminar he began studying philosophy in Zurich , which he broke off. In 1974 he completed an editorial traineeship at the Tages-Anzeiger , where he became an editor in 1975. In 1974, on behalf of the Tages-Anzeiger, he did his first research on VPM , Scientology and other groups and dealt particularly with the subject of indoctrination . In response to numerous reactions to his report, he continued research and published his first book on Scientology in 1982.

According to his own statements, Stamm received death threats and was knocked down in the 1990s. Who was behind it could never be found out despite criminal charges. He is said to have fended off dozen criminal and civil lawsuits. A comparison was made against the VPM in two trials.

Hugo Stamm is very reluctant to provide information about his own religious convictions. According to his statement, he fights for the intellectual freedom of the individual and criticizes where he sees this freedom restricted in some way.

In 2014 Hugo Stamm took partial retirement at the Tages-Anzeiger . From 2006 to 2016 he ran the popular cult blog on religious and cult issues. From then on, his sect blog appeared weekly on Saturdays on the Swiss news portal watson.ch .

Stamm lives in Zurich and has two children.

Publications

  • Scientology. Soul in a stranglehold. Supermen between exploitation and psychological terror. Gegenverlag, Horgen 1982.
  • VPM - the soul trap. 'Psychological knowledge of human nature' as a healing program. Werd, Zurich 1993.
  • Sects - under the spell of addiction and power. Exit aids for those affected and their families. Kreuz, Zurich 1995.
  • Under the spell of the apocalypse. End time ideas in churches, sects and cults. Pendo, Zurich 1998.
  • Attention esoteric. Between spirituality and seduction . Pendo, Zurich 2000.
  • Death in the temple. Roman, Pendo, Zurich 2003.
  • Under the spell of the Maya calendar - end-time hysteria in sects and esotericism. Gütersloh publishing house, 2012.

As co-author:

  • Paradise can wait. Groups with a totalitarian tendency. Werd, Zurich 1992.
  • Mission by all means. The Scientology corporation on soul trapping. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992.
  • VPM - the psycho sect. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995.
  • Lea Saskia Laasner : Alone against the soul catcher. My childhood in the psycho sect. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8218-5619-X .
  • Markus Zangger: Jürg Jegge's dark side. Wörterseh, 2017, ISBN 978-3-03763-080-8 .

literature

  • Felix Flückiger: "Sects" hunt. The New Intolerance - Facts, Background, Objections. Alpenland, Zurich 1998; New edition 2009, ISBN 3-9521711-0-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eTalk with Hugo Stamm: «Scientologists hound private detectives on me». on 20 minutes from April 20, 2006.
  2. ↑ Tribe digs in the sect swamp. ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Migros magazine . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.migrosmagazin.ch
  3. ↑ VPM again defeated on February 21, 1996, originally published in the Tages-Anzeiger .
  4. ↑ Fight for Freedom. by Hugo Stamm on March 22, 2006
  5. ↑ a b Jean-Martin Büttner: "I would never want to ban Scientology". Interview in: Tages-Anzeiger on May 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ Hugo Stamm: The religion blog goes, the questions remain. In: Tages-Anzeiger.ch from January 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Stamm, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and sect expert
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen