Klaus Körner (author, 1939)
Klaus Körner (* 1939 in Danzig ) is a German author with contributions to the history of publishing, history and political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Life
Klaus Körner studied law and political science at the Free University of Berlin , in Bonn and Kiel . In 1965 he passed the first state examination and in 1969 the major state examination. He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hamburg . Since 1976 he has been working as a freelance writer for contemporary history. He worked in the contemporary history department of Stern , on several history books for Bertelsmann Verlag and on TV series for NDR . He also takes part in contemporary history exhibitions and gives lectures. Since 1988 he has mainly published works on recent German history , publishing history , journalists and politicians biographies and propaganda during the Cold War .
Publications (selection)
Books:
- "We two run a company business": Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - an extraordinary friendship. Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89458-264-7
- Karl Marx - biography. dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-31089-5
- Karl Marx reading book . As editor, dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-34464-7
- How perpetrators became victims: On the history of the Berlin Republic . Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89458-240-5
- The red danger. Anti-communist propaganda in the Federal Republic from 1950 to 2000. Concrete-Literatur-Verlag Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89458-215-4 . (Review by Bernd Stöver in the specialist information for historians H-Soz-Kult .)
- Speeches in Time of War - Winston Churchill . Selected, imported and ext. by Klaus Körner. Europa Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-203-76021-5
- "The application is to be rejected": 14 pretexts against the compensation of forced laborers; a German scandal story 1945-2000 . Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-89458-205-7
- Collaboration for: "With license". History of the European Publishing House 1946–1996. Texts by Kurt Groenewold , Irmgard Heydorn and Klaus Körner, introduced, given an appendix and edited by Sabine Groenewold, Hamburg 1996.
- as a research assistant: Peter Koch: Konrad Adenauer . A political biography . Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-12395-9
- as research assistant: Peter Koch: Willy Brandt . A political biography . Ullstein Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-550-07493-X
- as documentary: Oskar Lafontaine : Fear of friends. The nuclear weapons strategy d. Superpowers destroy the alliances. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1983, ISBN 978-3-499-33046-9 .
Numerous scientific articles on the history of publishing between National Socialism and the Federal Republic appeared i. d. R. in the Börsenblatt for the German book trade z. B .:
- Eberhard Taubert and the Nibelungen Verlag . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 1997, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 44-52 ( luise-berlin.de - about Eberhard Taubert and the Anti-Comintern ).
- Trikont Verlag and the ›Archiv 451‹. In “Aus dem Antiquariat” (ADA), supplement to the Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels. 2/2004, pp. 101-107.
- ›Lost victories‹ (I): Der Junker und Dünnhaupt Verlag 1927–1945. ADA, 2002, pp. 130-141.
literature
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Körner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koerner, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |