Klaus Behling

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Klaus Behling (* 1949 in Damgarten ) is a German journalist and author. The focus of his work are non-fiction books on the history of the GDR .

Life

Behling studied Asian Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and specialized in the language and culture of Cambodia . From 1972 to 1977 he was a diplomat in Laos and Cambodia. In 1979 he was again in Cambodia as charge d'affaires ad interim of the GDR representative. He then worked as a cultural attaché in Romania and from 1987 to 1991 at the Institute for International Relations in Potsdam, where he dealt with Indochina research until 1991 and also published in the GDR press. He then worked as a journalist at Axel Springer Verlag in Berlin, including as a reporter for the Bild newspaper .

Since the beginning of the 2000s and especially after his retirement, he has appeared as a book author and published a large number of titles mainly on the history of the GDR, in particular on the state security service and other state secrets. Several works were created in collaboration with Jan Eik and other co-authors.

Works (selection)

  • with Andrea Behling: Scout a. D. The end of the GDR espionage. Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart - Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-89850-098-5 .
  • with Andrea Behling: spies in uniform. The Allied Military Missions in Germany. Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-89850-121-3 .
  • The NVA's intelligence service: history, actions and people. Edition Ost, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-360-01061-2 .
  • with Jan Eik : Special incidents: political affairs and assassinations in the GDR. Das Neue Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-360-00766-2 .
  • with Jan Eik: Hushed up crimes. Crime in the Stasi . Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86189-769-9 .
  • High-tech smuggler in the economic war. How the GDR evaded the embargo of the West. Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89706-872-8 .
  • with Christian Behling: Berlin in the Cold War: Scenes and Events. Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89706-901-5 .
  • with Jan Eik: Transit in the Death Crime stories from the Stasi. Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86189-807-8 .
  • with Jan Eik: classified information. The greatest secrets of the GDR. The New Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-01944-8 .
  • with Jan Eik: Silent Terror. Crime in the Stasi . Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86189-816-0 .
  • "The last one turns the light off". On land, on water and in the air - 250 escape stories from the GDR. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86368-038-1 .
  • with Andreas Jüttemann : Berlin Teufelsberg: rubble, troops and tourists. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86368-023-7 .
  • Secrets of a sunken country: entertaining anecdotes from the GDR card box. Bild und Heimat, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86789-594-1 .
  • "Suddenly and unexpected". Suicides after reunification and unification. Edition Berolina, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95841-004-6 .
  • with Jan Eik: death by the flag. Edition Berolina 2012, ISBN 978-3-86789-827-0 .
  • Television from Adlershof. Television in the GDR from start to finish. Edition Berolina, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95841-043-5 .
  • with Jan Eik: Assassination attempt on Honecker and other special incidents. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89773-814-0 .
  • The criminal history of the GDR. Edition Berolina, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95841-055-8 .
  • Life in the GDR. Everything you need to know. Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95958-160-8 .
  • Trace of the bills. How the SED's fortunes disappeared. Edition Berolina, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95841-102-9 .
  • The trust. How one authority abolished an entire country. Edition Berolina, Berlin 2015 (extended new edition Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95841-109-8 ).
  • The lust killer from the Ore Mountains. True violent crimes from East Germany. Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95958-244-5 .
  • The grave under the couch. Spectacular criminal cases in the GDR. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89773-084-7 .
  • Potsdam. Then and now. Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95958-195-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b blurb to: Life in the GDR. Everything you need to know. Verlag Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95958-160-8 .
  2. ^ Embassy opened in Phnom Penh. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 4, 1979, p. 5.
  3. ↑ inter alia: On an ambivalent search for new ways in Vietnam. In: New Germany. September 5, 1990.
    USA - Cambodia: A growing sense of reality led to a turning point. In: New Germany. August 29, 1990.
  4. ↑ The greatest Raffke of the Stasi. In: Bild newspaper. July 11, 2017 and quite a few articles written by Behling there.
personal data
SURNAME Behling, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Damgarten