Michael Carlo Klepsch

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Michael Carlo Klepsch (born December 11, 1964 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian and publicist .

Youth and Studies

Klepsch attended the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and, after graduating from high school, studied modern history , art history and political science in Düsseldorf, Bochum and Paris from 1985 to 1992 . In 1999 he did his doctorate with Wolfgang J. Mommsen at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf with a thesis on Romain Rolland during the First World War.

Professional career

In his book Picasso and National Socialism , published in 2007 , he put the biography of Picasso , as the embodiment of modern art, in connection with the failed artist Adolf Hitler as a symbol of anti-modernism. As a research assistant to Rüdiger Sagel in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 to 2012, he examined the repressed Nazi past of state parliament members from the CDU and FDP in NRW after 1945. After Die Linke missed re-entry in the state elections in 2012 , Klepsch worked for the new one Pirate faction drafted into the state parliament . After the pirates were not re-elected to parliament in the state elections in 2017 , Klepsch is now working according to media information for the NRW parliamentary group of Alternative for Germany .

He writes articles and reviews for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and the “Blätter für German and international politics”, among others .

In 2008 he became a member of the party Die Linke, which he represented in cultural-political committees in Düsseldorf. In 2017 he left the party.

As a member of the jury for the Heinrich Heine Prize of the City of Düsseldorf , he suggested Naomi Klein , Jean Ziegler and Noam Chomsky as candidates for the Heine Prize.

Fonts (selection)

  • From Cromford to Cromford. Industrial espionage in the 18th century. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3792711168 .
  • Romain Rolland in the First World War. An intellectual in a losing position. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3170165879 .
  • Picasso and National Socialism, Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007. ISBN 9783491350113
  • 60 years of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. The forgotten brown legacy. Munster 2009.
  • Too much of the honor: the Hindenburg myth and the dirty truth. Münster 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picasso's bitter struggle against Hitler . Retrieved July 6, 2012
  2. ↑ www.sagel.info (PDF; 3.3 MB). Retrieved July 6, 2012
  3. ↑ AfD nazi-free . In: jungle.world . ( jungle.world [accessed October 15, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Klepsch, Michael Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, journalist and cultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf