Jörg Andrees Elten

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Jörg A. Elten (2010)

Jörg Andrees Elten (also Swami Satyananda ; born March 30, 1927 in Dresden ; † January 29, 2017 in Stellshagen ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Elten was a student at the National Political Education Institute (Napola) in Naumburg / Saale and from March to May 1945 still a war participant as a tank grenadier in a unit of the Waffen SS . He later worked for six years as a Middle East and Africa correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and then as a reporter for Stern magazine .

For the time he reported from Israel and Russia in the 1960s.

In 1977 Elten traveled to India for an interview with then Prime Minister Morarji Desai , where he also visited Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in Poona and was so impressed by him that he became a sannyasin himself . Elten's article about his experiences in Poona, which appeared shortly afterwards, contributed significantly to the fact that Bhagwan and his Ashram received increasing attention in the West, especially in Germany.

In 1979 Elten's diary about his life in the ashram was published, completely relaxed in the here and now! , which became a bestseller and motivated thousands of young Germans to travel to India to meet Bhagwan themselves. 1990 was followed by a second book in which Elten about the end of Rajneeshpuram - municipality in Antelope (Oregon) the mid-1980s and his own experiences when you restart a freelance writer in California's Santa Barbara reported. In his third book, Karma and Career , which is also autobiographical , Elten dealt primarily with two central issues of our time: fear and trust.

After eight years in the USA, Elten returned to Germany in the late 1990s and has lived in Stellshagen in West Mecklenburg since 1998 , where he and his partner Martina Kaltenbach headed the Institute for Creativity and Meditation , where he offered seminars and workshops, but also continued to regularly write articles for magazines such as the Klartext column of the German edition of the Osho Times . Elten left three daughters: Susanne, Petra and Bettina.

Works

  • In the hand of Allah. An adventurous trip to the Orient by car (together with Johann Albrecht Cropp ). Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1956
  • Completely relaxed in the here and now! Diary about my life with Bhagwan in Poona . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979; Satyananda, Stellshagen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9808415-1-1
  • It's all very easy in Santa Barbara . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1990; Revised new edition: Satyananda, Stellshagen 2009, ISBN 978-3-9808415-2-8
  • Karma and career. Living in times of fear . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1992; Satyananda, Stellshagen 2002, ISBN 3-9808415-0-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is actually ... Ex-Bhagwan disciple Jörg Andrees Elten? In: Stern No. 41/2010 (October 7, 2010).
  2. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/1966/28/liebesgruesse-aus-sibirien/komplettansicht The prophet with the rifle: Ben Gurion, the seventy-nine year old Mr. Israel, does not want to put the weapon down July 9, 1965
  3. ↑ With love from Siberia: With de Gaulle in Russia - impressions on the edge July 8, 1966
  4. ↑ Peace through the Great Master . In: Stern No. 3/1978 (January 12, 1978), pp. 14-22 and 82 f.
  5. ↑ Obituary

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personal data
SURNAME Elten, Jörg Andrees
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swami Satyananda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 29th January 2017
Place of death Stellshagen