Klaus Figge

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Klaus Figge (born November 6, 1934 in Hagen ; † September 5, 2006 ) was a German journalist who worked a lot for radio and television.

Figge studied Ev. Theology, history and politics. He became known in 1959 because, as the editor of a student newspaper, he had recorded an anti-Catholic article "The History of Paradise" as a literary attempt, against which the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim and the Archbishop of Freiburg filed charges.

In 1971 he and the historian Dieter Groh conducted an interview with the controversial philosopher Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg about his life, which was only published as a book in 2010. Further work concerned the air raid on Guernica in 1937 (1977 and 1981), in which older legends of justification for the role of the German Air Force were dispelled on the basis of scientific advice from Klaus A. Maier and which triggered a public debate. In Contemporaries of the Century , Martin Niemöller spoke to Klaus Figge and Henning Röhl (SWF 1999). Figge also dealt with the history of broadcasting, especially the radio play. He lived in Baden-Baden .

Publications

  • Frank Hertweck, Dimitrios Kisoudis (ed.): As long as the empire is there. Carl Schmitt in conversation with Klaus Figge and Dieter Groh in 1971 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13452-6 .
  • Contemporaries of the century: Martin Niemöller in conversation with Klaus Figge and Henning Röhl (sound carrier), SWR 1999.
  • Churches under the swastika, a documentation , 1. The SA of Jesus Christ: German Christians against the confessing Church 1933–1938; 2. The Protestant Church between 1938 and 1945: Resistance and Surrender, 2 films, Calwer Verlag 1988 ISBN 978-3-7668-3145-3 (Book 1991)
  • Guernica - Pablo Picasso and politics , SWF / NDR 1991 (previously a television documentary with Walter Bittermann 1977 "... a complete success for the Luftwaffe")

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Horst Breier: Sometimes they cause a sensation. In: The time. August 2, 1963. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Walter Bernecker: The historical processing of the Spanish civil war. In: The Spanish Civil War in the GDR. Wolfgang Asholt u. a., 2009, p. 45 , accessed on December 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Figge: On the roof of the city. In: ARD audio play database. ARD, February 6, 1994, accessed December 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Figge, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio and television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2006