Karsten Krampitz

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Karsten Krampitz (2009)

Karsten Krampitz (born December 24, 1969 in Rüdersdorf , Brandenburg ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

After training as a business economist , Krampitz studied history, German and political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2016 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. His dissertation deals with the self-immolation of Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz in Zeitz in 1976. Krampitz published several novels and short stories. He was an editor, later editor-in-chief of Berlin street newspapers . As a freelance journalist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines, such as Friday , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Junge Welt , the Berliner Zeitung and Die Welt . He lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

Street newspapers and promotions

Krampitz worked as an author in the Berlin street papers Hunnis Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) (from its founding to its discontinuation in April 1994), in the Motz (from its founding in May 1995 to the beginning of 1996) and in Strassenfeger up to 2000 The approach was to develop street newspapers into a “left tabloid”. This included articles that point out the difficult and socially caused living conditions of homeless people, but also high-profile interviews with celebrities such as Harald Juhnke , Harry Rowohlt and Inge Meysel .

Krampitz also took part in campaigns, such as the symbolic occupation of the Adlon and Kempinski hotels in Berlin under the motto “There are still beds available”, to draw attention to the annual end of the cooling aid at the end of March. He also took part in the occupation of the Bahnhof Zoo , which the street newspaper Strassenfeger organized together with the Young Democrats / Young Left under the motto “Freedom dies with security” to draw attention to the increasing privatization of public spaces and the expulsion of homeless people by private security services.

The renaming of the night café Arche of the Treptow Confessional Church to Night Café Landowsky , which is intended to commemorate the Berlin banking scandal and the involvement of Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky , also goes back to an initiative by Krampitz in spring 2007. In April 2008 the Diakonisches Werk Neukölln-Oberspree banned the night café from calling itself Landowsky . Krampitz was then suspended from his work in the homeless service. Karsten Krampitz is now committed to the Gorki night asylum , a night café for the homeless in Berlin's Lichtenberg district .

In 2004, Krampitz invented the Wewelsflether drinking flap , a satirical action in analogy to baby flaps that calls on the wives of alcoholics to take unwanted "foundling drinkers" to care at the local therapy center:

“Because they were abandoned by their wives, hundreds of drinkers freeze to death under Germany's bridges, in the streets and parks. Dealing with alcohol and its victims is an indicator of the state of society. Old and unemployed men in particular are rigorously disposed of. In order to counteract the practice of looking away and letting go, the German P. E. N. N., together with the Eulenhof, launched the 'Findel drinkers' campaign. On Friday, November 5th, the initiative will appear publicly for the first time in Wewelsfleth, Dorfstraße 2. "

- Karsten Krampitz : What to do with the drinkers?

Party and history politics

Krampitz was a member of the left until 2018 . In 2012 he declared his intention to run for chairman of the party, but withdrew it a few days later, also because the party was not fully behind him. He said in 2016 that the party facing up to its SED past is important to him and a reason to vote for the left-wing top candidate Klaus Lederer in the Berlin House of Representatives .

In the same year his book 1976. Die DDR in the crisis in the environment of the party was controversial. The party newspaper Neues Deutschland published a 14-part preprint and letters from protesting readers, such as the former SED politician Egon Krenz and the racing cyclist Täve Schur . The reactions outside the party were more positive. Krampitz is trying a multi-perspective view of the SED state without glorifying or demonizing the GDR, it said in the taz. The Frankfurter Rundschau confirmed that the historian did a solid job: “Krampitz's book takes a differentiated look at the history of the GDR, which was more complex and complex than it is often presented today.” The Tagesspiegel judged: “Krampitz is one of the best connoisseurs GDR late phase. "

Krampitz describes his relationship to the party “Die Linke” as ambivalent: “I was (...) in the church without being in the church. For a long time in the 1990s I was the chief editor of a homeless newspaper even though I had an apartment. I am a doctor of history and at the same time a member of the SED successor party Die Linke. So it often turns out that I'm there somewhere without really belonging. ”In New Germany in 2014, he explained his unease that there are too many functionaries and elected officials on the left,“ who have never had certain existential experiences, and never have will do. They know fear, material hardship and despair from hearsay. "

Prizes and awards

Publications

Web links

Commons : Karsten Krampitz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State and Church in the GDR, The relationship between state and church in the GDR as a result of the self-immolation of the pastor on August 18, 1976 with special consideration of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony. Printed as: The Brüsewitz case. State and Church in the GDR. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2016
  2. ↑ Dunja Batarilo: The "Arche" may no longer be called "Landowsky" . In: The daily newspaper . April 8, 2008.
  3. ↑ action "Findeltrinker": The world's first social drinker flap in Wewelsfleth . In: goods form . November 11, 2004.
  4. ↑ Karsten Krampitz: What to do with the drinkers? In: Berliner Zeitung . November 4, 2004, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Lena Kreck: One less candidacy. Karsten Krampitz does not want to become party chairman. In: prague spring. Magazine for Freedom and Socialism, May 29, 2012, online , accessed February 13, 2017
  6. ↑ Call for election “Berlin needs a strong left” ( memento of February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 13, 2017
  7. ↑ Günter Benser: There was no historical vacuum. A replica of Karsten Krampitz's case studies about the GDR in 1976. In: Neues Deutschland, April 15, 2016, online (payment barrier), accessed on February 13, 2017. - Andreas Rüttenauer: Das verflixte Jahr. Karsten Krampitz's attempt to write GDR history in a new way provokes reactions from the old machine. In: the daily newspaper, April 24, 2016, online, accessed on February 13, 2017
  8. ↑ Andreas Rüttenauer: The darned year. Karsten Krampitz's attempt to write GDR history in a new way provokes reactions from the old machine. In: the daily newspaper, April 24, 2016, online, accessed on February 13, 2017
  9. ↑ Andreas Förster: After this touch of spring. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, June 10, 2016, online, accessed on February 13, 2017
  10. ↑ Christian Schröder: The fall of the GDR began 40 years ago. In: Der Tagesspiegel, August 9, 2016, online, accessed on February 13, 2017
  11. ↑ Karsten Krampitz folks, that doesn't work! In: Die Brücke No. 165–168, June / September 2015, p. 16, digitized version, accessed on February 13, 2017
  12. ↑ “All good ideas tip over sometime” , interview, in: Neues Deutschland , January 4, 2014, online (payment barrier), accessed on February 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Krampitz, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudersdorf , Brandenburg