Klaus Hartung (journalist)

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Klaus Hartung (born November 13, 1940 in Olbernhau ; † December 27, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and author and a political activist in the late 1960s . Hartung was a member of the SDS . He wrote a book about his experiences in the Italian anti- psychiatry movement.

Life

Klaus Hartung lived in Olbernhau in the Ore Mountains until 1955 , "in the GDR", as he always added in his autobiographical note. In 1955 the family moved to the Federal Republic. He made in Hagen his High School and then studied in Bonn and from 1963 in West Berlin . He studied German , philosophy , religious studies , politics and sociology ; his area of ​​interest was universal.

After Benno Ohnesorg's violent death on June 2, 1967, he joined the student movement . He worked u. a. for the Red Aid .

After the student movement, he went to Italy in the 1970s to work in a psychiatric institution in Trieste . In 1980 he returned to Berlin, where he worked for taz . From 1991 he became a correspondent for the time in Berlin. He wrote numerous articles and essays for both newspapers. He also published texts in the Kursbuch , in the Tagesspiegel and in the Wochenpost , some of them also in the Freibeuter .

He retired in 2005 and then focused on painting . He had already painted on the side before.

On December 27, 2020, Klaus Hartung died at the age of 80 in a nursing home in Berlin as a result of a fall injury.

Publications (selection)

  • The new clothes of psychiatry. From anti-institutional struggle to guerrilla warfare against misery. Reports from Trieste , Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 978-3-88022-231-1 .
  • Nineteen eighty-nine. Site visits after a turning point. An essay , Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, Hamburg / Zurich 1992 (first edition 1990), ISBN 978-3-630-71066-2 .
  • Berlin (photographs by Manfred Hamm ). With an essay by Klaus Hartung, German-English, 2nd, updated edition, Nicolai, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-87584-964-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see information in the data of the German National Library about Hartung at http://d-nb.info/gnd/122438760
  2. ↑ Matthias Geis: History in becoming. On the death of our colleague Klaus Hartung. In: The time . December 30, 2020 .;
  3. ↑ Overview of Hartung's article in the taz on taz.de
  4. ↑ Overview of Hartung's article in ZEIT
  5. ^ Manfred Kriener: Obituary for taz author Klaus Hartung: With verbal power and lust for thought . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 29, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 30, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Olbernhau
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2020
Place of death Berlin