Kurt Nelhiebel

Kurt Nelhiebel , pseudonym Conrad Taler (born June 29, 1927 in Deutsch Gabel , Czechoslovakia ) is a German journalist and former radio editor .

biography

Nelhiebel's family was expelled from the former Bohemia after the end of World War II and the restoration of Czechoslovakia . In the early 1960s he was a correspondent for the community , the monthly magazine of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien . From 1963 onwards, he reported on the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main in 21 reports . In the decades from 1965 onwards he worked as a news editor and commentator, later as news chief, at Radio Bremen . As such, he initiated, among other things, the Low German news in 1977. In order to be able to comment on the current reports at the same time, which is normally not recommended to the neutral editors, he adopted the pseudonym Conrad Taler . Under this he also published most of his books.

Today Nelhiebel lives in Bremen. He writes for domestic and foreign newspapers and continues to work sporadically on the radio. In 2009 he was one of the signatories of a petition from the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft and the PEN Center of German-Speaking Authors Abroad to the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag for a “politically correct center against displacement ”. He expressly supported the demand for a new concept for the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation , which should also remember the beginnings of the expulsion in 1933 and stop all attempts to reinterpret history in terms of cause and effect. He made his criticism of the foundation in the person of its director Manfred Kittel and his view of history with the essay The decoupling of war and displacement - On Manfred Kittel's interpretation of recent European history .

Honors

• 2014: Culture and Peace Prize of Villa Ichon
• 2018: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Publications

• The Henleins yesterday and today: Background and goals of the Witikobund , Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main 1962, DNB 453549667 .
• Ashes on icy roads. A chronicle of horror. Reports from the Auschwitz Trial With a contribution by Werner Renz. Papyrossa , Cologne 2003, ISBN 9783894382636
• The decoupling of war and displacement. On Manfred Kittel's interpretation of recent European history , in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , volume 1, 58th year 2010, pp. 54–69 ISSN  0044-2828 Online at the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft PDF; 3.6 MB
• In the jumble of opinions. Two German anti-fascists and their voices. In: The Germans and Eastern Europe - Studies and Sources. Volume 11, edited by Eva Hahn and Hans Henning Hahn , Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISSN  1862-491X , ISBN 978-3-631-64255-9 (print), E- ISBN 978-3 -653-03009-9 (e-book), doi : 10.3726 / 978-3-653-03009-9 , advertising sheet of the publisher
• How it ended in 1945 and how it continued then - own blog since November 2011 (online)
• as Conrad Taler:
  • Right where the middle is. The new nationalism in the Federal Republic . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt 1972
  • The belittled. About dealing with right-wing radicalism . Donat , Bremen 1995 ISBN 9783924444921
  • Foreplay. The Sudeten Crisis and the Second World War . Donat, Bremen 1998 ISBN 9783931737696
  • Two degrees. Or: lawyers are capable of anything . Papyrossa, Cologne 2002, ISBN 9783894382445
  • The brown thread. The suppressed history of the Federal Republic . Papyrossa, Cologne 2005, ISBN 9783894383190
  • Dusty backdrop of home. About the causality of war and displacement . Papyrossa, Cologne 2007, ISBN 9783894383763
  • Scandal without end. German dealing with right-wing extremism . Papyrossa, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-89438-503-3
  • Against the wind: stories and texts on current affairs 1927-2017 . Papyrossa, Cologne 2017. ISBN 978-3-89438-646-7

Web links

• In the mirror of the Auschwitz trial - How neo-Nazism and anti-Semitism have been played down. Unhindered lecture by Conrad Taler (2005)
• Culture and peace award ceremony of Villa Ichon 2014
• “The Moorsoldatenlied was not sung” Conversation with the German contemporary witness Kurt Nelhiebel on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} https://www.taz.de/Vorwaerts--nicht-vergessen/!5419040
2. ↑ http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/199602.heimatliebe-ist-sehnsucht-nach-frieden.html
3. ↑ http://www.kurt-nelhiebel.de/index.php/biographie