Rainer Werning

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Rainer Werning (* 1949 in Münster ) is a German political scientist and journalist with a focus on Southeast and East Asia. He spent several years in the Philippines . Various publications document his studies and research. He works as an author for print media in Germany and abroad as well as in radio.

Life

From 1968 Rainer Werning traveled to several countries in South, Southeast and East Asia (including India and Nepal in 1968, Thailand and Laos in 1969, further study visits to Thailand, Laos, the Philippines, Korea: South and North). From his research on these trips, he has produced a large number of publications.

From 1979 to 1985 Werning studied social and political sciences, literature and philosophy at the University of Osnabrück and had study visits to the University of Hull , Sophia University in Tokyo, the University of the Philippines in Quezon City and Columbia University in New York. He received his doctorate in the summer of 1984. rer. pole.

Since then, Werning has worked professionally as a book author, editor, freelance journalist in print media and for public broadcasters, as well as a lecturer in adult education institutions. Most recently as a Philippines and Korea lecturer at the Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ) in Bad Honnef, lecturer at the Department of Cultural and Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrück, Affiliated Fellow of Southeast Asian Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. From 2010 to 2013 Werning was a lecturer at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn (Department for Southeast Asian Studies ). From 2014 to 2015 lecturer at the department of cultural and social sciences at the University of Osnabrück. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Open Academy.

He has been intensively involved in solidarity with the Philippines since the declaration of martial law under Marcos. He worked on several projects with Maria Lourdes U. Hardillo, for example for the background CD-ROM for the crime scene crime thriller Manila 1998. There is also a wide range of collaborations with solidarity organizations such as medico international, Bread for the World, Foundation for Children and Korea Association e. V. Werning founded the Korea Forum in 1986 and was chairman of the board of the Korea-Verband e. V. in Berlin. In 2004 he worked in the international movement against the arrest of Song Du-yul and published numerous statements on it.

Rainer Werning writes regularly for the newspaper Junge Welt , New Germany , in Zurich published weekly and various subjects magazines and online portals like NachDenkSeiten , background (Frankfurt a. M.), focus Drëtt world (Luxembourg), time (Solothurn), Southeast Asia (Cologne) and Korea Forum (Berlin).

Publications (selection)

  • Bursting bamboo , Frankfurt am Main, 1986
  • The Philippines under Aquino - Facets of a Change of Power (co-author), Frankfurt am Main, 1987
  • Korea - No country for peaceful games (as co-author), Reinbek near Hamburg, 1988
  • North Korea - Approaching an Outsider (as editor), Frankfurt am Main, 1988
  • Philippines - Paradies in Aufruhr (co-editor), Berlin, 1989
  • The Philippine Revolution: An Interior View , Essen, 1993 ISBN 978-3-88021-232-9
  • North Korea - South Korea , Osnabrück, 2003
  • Our victims don't count - The Third World in World War II , (co-author of the Asia chapter), Bonn 2014
  • Handbook Philippines: Society - Politics - Economy - Culture , edited by Rainer Werning / Jörg Schwieger, Berlin, 2019 (6th edition) ISBN 978-3-947729-06-7
  • Voices from Moro Land: Perspectives from Stakeholders and Observers on the Conflict in the Southern Philippines (as co-editor), Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), 2007
  • Conflict in Moro Land: Prospects for Peace? (as co-editor), Pulau Pinang ( Malaysia ), 2009
  • KOREA - From the colony to the divided country , Song Du-yul / Rainer Werning, Vienna, 2012 ISBN 978-3-85371-340-2
  • North Korea hot spot - how dangerous is the region? Reports, data and facts , Rainer Werning, Helga Picht , Berlin, 2018 ISBN 978-3-95841-088-6
  • Reflections on Revolution and Prospects. Interviews by Rainer Werning. José Maria Sison and Rainer Werning, Utrecht ( Netherlands ), 2019 ISBN 978-1-62847-937-9
  • A life in the resistance: Conversations about imperialism, socialism and liberation , José Maria Sison, Rainer Werning, Essen, 2020 ISBN 978-3-88021-558-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.offene-akademie.org/?p=222
  2. ↑ http://astm.lu/fr-publications-de-publikationen/brennpunkt/
personal data
SURNAME Werning, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and journalist with a focus on Southeast and East Asia
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster