Ivan Denes

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Ivan-Alexandru Denes (Romanian: Deneș, born September 16, 1928 in Timișoara , Romania ; † January 16, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and writer who was active in the politically ultra-conservative and right-wing extremist scene.

Life

Denes comes from a Jewish family; his father was a trader. Growing up in Romania, Denes studied philosophy at the universities of Cluj and Bucharest . In 1945 he joined the Romanian Communist Party . However, he left her in 1947, when Denes was arrested for the first time. In the same year he passed his master's examination. He then worked as a publishing editor and magazine editor. From 1952 Denes was a freelance translator and documentary film writer, from 1957 dramaturge at the State Puppet Theater in Cluj. In 1958 he was arrested again and sentenced to 20 years for "treason" but pardoned in 1964. In 1966 Denes wrote his first short novel The Doves . He has translated numerous authors into Romanian, including Thomas Mann , Hermann Hesse , Romain Rolland , Deák Tamás , Thornton Wilder , Robert Graves , Aharon Megged .

In 1969 his novel “Godless Prayers”, which had already been accepted by the publisher, was banned by the censors. In 1970 Denes emigrated to Israel . There he became a lecturer in comparative literature at Haifa University . He spent 1971/72 on a DAAD scholarship in West Berlin . In 1972 he began to work for Axel Springer Verlag, first as an archivist and then as an editor. In 1979 he worked briefly at Radio Free Europe in Munich , after which he returned to Springer.

From 1948 to 1989 Denes worked under the code names "Aurel Bantaş", "Alecu Sîrbu", "GX-36", "Petru Pintilie", "Kraus" and "Konrad" as an unofficial employee - as a domestic and foreign agent - for the Romanian Securitate .

In 1981 Denes founded the West-East News Agency ( WONA ). From 1983 he worked as a freelance journalist. In 1993 his literary publications appeared for the first time in Germany.

politics

Ivan Denes was committed to the German Conservatives and the Prussian Society Berlin-Brandenburg . He was editor-in-chief of Germany magazine and also wrote for the Ostpreußenblatt (now the Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung ) and the Junge Freiheit . He also wrote texts for the state letters and the Sleipnir magazine .

Ivan Denes has repeatedly been a speaker at events organized by right-wing and right-wing extremist organizations such as the Prussian Society Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. and the “Tuesday talks”. Denes was a declared opponent of Section 130 of the Criminal Code (incitement to hatred), which provided "the legal basis for intellectual control" . At the same point, Denes took the view that “the Nazis were actually left” .

In 2007 he ran for the Bremen citizenship in fourth place on the list of the right-wing voter initiative Bremen must live , which was led by Joachim Siegerist and Bernd Rabehl .

family

Ivan Denes was married and divorced three times; the second marriage resulted in three sons.

Publications (selection)

  • Problem thinking and systems thinking . On the relationship between liberalism and natural science, Verlag Europäische Ideen , Berlin 1976.
  • God at Wannsee . A contemporary legend, translated from the abstract into German by the native speaker himself. Bock and Kübler, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86155-019-9 .
  • Tauben (translated by the author from the Romanian original) Oberbaum, Berlin / St. Petersburg 2000, ISBN 3-928254-24-3 .
  • Power in power . Who and what is the "east coast" of Dr. Helmut Kohl? Jewish Organizations in the United States: A Dossier. Oberbaum, Berlin [a. a.] 2000, ISBN 3-933314-34-8 .
  • politically incorrect . Thought fragments as a diary substitute. WPR - Business and Association PR, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-910087-01-9 .

literature

Obituaries:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name "Deneș" is pronounced in Romanian like: Denesch
  2. ↑ jungefreiheit.de ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jungefreiheit.de
  3. ↑ tagesspiegel.de
  4. ^ Entry on Denes, Ivan at the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
  5. ↑ Securitate şi Ivan Denes (The Securitate and Ivan Denes), Radio France Internationale , 19. April 2011 rfi.ro
  6. ↑ Ivan Denes: Half-year publication - hjs-online , April 20, 2011, Halbjahresschrift.blogspot.de
  7. ↑ look to the right, March 8, 2006; ksta.de, November 21, 2007
  8. ^ German Conservative Newspaper, edition 31/2007, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Denes, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denes, Ivan-Alexandru (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Romania
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2011
Place of death Berlin