Jürgen Busche

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Jürgen Busche (born October 9, 1944 in Belzig ) is a German journalist , author and literary critic .

Life

Jürgen Busche grew up in Paderborn and Fulda. After military service from 1965 to 1967, he studied Ancient History , Philosophy and German Studies in Münster and received his doctorate in 1971 with a dissertation in Ancient History. From 1972 he worked as an editor, initially at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , from 1987 as deputy editor-in-chief at the Hamburger Morgenpost . From 1989 to 1990, during German reunification , he was employed as a speechwriter for Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in the Federal President's Office. In 1990 he became head of the domestic affairs department at the Süddeutsche Zeitung and in 1996 editor-in-chief of the Wochenpost in Berlin. From February 15, 1998 to the end of 2001, he was editor-in-chief of the Badische Zeitung in Freiburg. Today he works as a freelance author in Berlin.

Busche was one of the founding members of the Literary Quartet . He participated in the discussions from 1988 to June 1989.

Role in the Habermas controversy

In the November 2006 issue of Cicero magazine , Busche went with his contribution “ Has Habermas swallowed the truth? " According to an anecdote that Joachim Fest in his memoirs" Ich nicht "on p. 342f. had said: "One of the leading minds of the country" had sent his subordinate a letter as a Hitler Youth instructor during the Second World War , in which the identification of this "leading mind" with National Socialism and the expectation of final victory were expressed. Decades later, the subordinate returned the letter to the “leading head” at a birthday party, whereupon he swallowed it without looking. Von Busche identified the “leading head” with the sociologist Jürgen Habermas , the subordinate with the historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler ; The two scholars are friends from their youth from Gummersbach and are close friends. Busche took up this and linked it in his cover story with the “end” of political philosophy and the intellectual significance of Habermas, whose integrity he questions between the lines.

In a newspaper article entitled “ Habermas did not swallow anything ”, Hans-Ulrich Wehler replied that Habermas had not consumed the allegedly incriminating document, either at a party or anywhere else, and claimed that Fest had taken the anecdote into his memories against his better judgment. The anecdote after Wehler was created with a bon mot by Ute Habermas. When asked what her husband had done with the letter after Wehler had sent it to him about 20 years earlier - according to Habermas, a form with which Wehler was quoted as a late participant at the next Hitler Youth meeting - replied jokingly : He knows Jürgen, "he swallowed it". Wehler seems to have told this to colleagues and would thus be the initiator of the spread of the rumor.

In November 2006, Habermas obtained an injunction from the Hamburg Regional Court against the publisher of the autobiography Joachim Fest, which since then, because it contains defamation , has appeared without the disputed passage on about half a page.

The Busches article was received negatively in the German press. Gereon Wolters called the Cicero article by Busches on Habermas “an example of grease journalism”.

Fonts

  • The term Hellenism as an epoch name. Investigations into the Oinoe battle of Pausanias . Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt 1974, ISBN 3-7997-0242-3 (dissertation).
  • Helmut Kohl. Anatomy of a success. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1998.
  • The 68s. The biography of a generation. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8270-0507-8 .
  • Hero's Trial. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Has Habermas swallowed the truth? In: Cicero. Political Culture Magazine . Berlin. November 2006. Reprinted in: Martin Beck Matuštík: Habermas Affair Background [1] . Pp. 2-4.
  2. ^ Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006.
  3. ↑ a b Hans-Ulrich Wehler: Habermas has not swallowed anything. Why the philosopher had no reason to cover up his time with the Hitler Youth - to the genesis of a perfidious rumor. . In: The time . Volume 61, No. 45, November 2, 2006, p. 44.
  4. ^ Presiding judge Andreas Buske, AZ 324 O 815/06.
  5. ↑ Habermas stops distribution of festival autobiography. Handelsblatt November 3, 2006; Rolf Schälike: Habermas vs. Rowohlt Verlag - “I don't” by Joachim Fest. Report of the Hamburg Press Chamber, meeting November 17, 2006.
  6. ↑ Andreas Zielcke: Defamation against better judgment. Nazi allegations against Habermas. Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 249, p. 13, October 27, 2006; Uwe Wittstock: When intellectuals have their fuses blown. The world. November 6, 2006.
  7. ↑ Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Ed.): Philosophy in National Socialism. Hamburg 2009, p. 59.
personal data
SURNAME Busche, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, book author and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Belzig