Richard Kiessler

Richard Kiessler (born December 12, 1944 in Aschersleben ) is a German journalist and publicist.

Life

After completing school in Hanover and Braunschweig and graduating from the Christianeum in Hamburg , he studied political science and sociology in Tübingen , Berlin and Mannheim . This was followed by a study visit to Oxford ( England ) and an eight-month research stay in Cuba as a doctoral scholarship holder from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . Despite sympathy for the Cuban political system, shortly before his planned departure from Cuba in December 1969, he was arrested by the Cuban secret service G2 and spent 170 days in solitary confinement on charges of alleged espionage. Only after a forced confession and numerous international efforts to get his release was he allowed to return to the Federal Republic without charge. In 1973 he received his doctorate. phil. at the University of Tübingen with the topic: Guerrilla and Revolution. Internal and external factors of a Latin American variant of the People's Liberation War.

Kiessler began his journalistic career already during his studies, initially as a trainee and volunteer at the daily newspaper Die Welt , the ARD - Tagesschau and the German Press Agency (dpa), where he then worked as an editor in Düsseldorf and Bonn. After a short time as Bonn office manager of the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt he was from 1979 to 1993 diplomatic correspondent for the news magazine Der Spiegel in its capital city office in Bonn. In 1994 he became editor-in-chief of the Neue Ruhr Zeitung / Neue Rhein Zeitung (NRZ) in Essen . Since December 2007, Kiessler has been editor-in-chief / special correspondent for foreign policy in the WAZ media group (today Funke media group). Kiessler has been a freelance journalist since January 2011.

Kiessler became known through numerous comments and reports for Deutschlandfunk and Deutsche Welle , as well as publications in books, specialist magazines and newspapers. He was also a frequent guest of the ARD press club. His journalistic focus is on foreign and security policy. Since 2014 he has moderated the "City Talks" in Essen, a meeting point for multipliers from politics, business, science and culture. His foreign policy column Kiesslers Welt appears weekly in the editorial network INFORMER / FOCUS-online.

He is a member of the German Society for Foreign Policy , the Atlantik-Brücke and the Lions Club . He has also been a member of the SPD since 1967 .

Richard Kiessler is married and has three children.

Fonts

• "Crisis and Dilemma of Orthodox Communism in Latin America", in: K. Lindenberg (Ed.): Politics in Latin America, Hanover 1971, pp. 99–114.
• "El hombre nuevo - socialism in Cuba", in: Working papers on political sociology, issue 4/1973, pp. 63–70.
• "Guerrilla and Revolution", Party Communism and Partisan Strategy in Latin America, Bonn 1973.
• "Hans-Dietrich Genscher - A German Foreign Minister", pictorial biography (together with Helmut R. Schulze), Munich 1991.
• "A round table with sharp corners". The diplomatic path to German unity (together with Frank Elbe), Baden-Baden 1993.
• "A Round Table With Sharp Corners". The Diplomatic Path to German, (together with Frank Elbe), Baden-Baden 1996, Japanese edition, Tokyo 2003.
• "Between the mantle and the local. The axis function of the editorial management", in: E. Maseberg / S. Reiter / W. Teichert (Ed.): Management tasks in editorial offices, Gütersloh 1996, pp. 55–59.
• "From the Occident to Disneyland? Social Risks of the Information Society", in: H. Däubler-Gmelin / H. Schmidt / J. Schmude (Ed.): Gestalten and Serve. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of H.-J. Vogel, Baden-Baden 1996, pp. 181-186.
• "On the way to unity - Hans Dietrich Genscher and the national question". In: Klaus Kinkel (Ed.): Responsibility. Hans-Dietrich Genscher at the 70th (Festschrift), Berlin 1997, pp. 420-430.
• The Two Plus Four Talks: A Diplomatic Masterpiece, in: Ch. Elder / EG Sammis (Eds.): A Vision Fulfilled. 50 Years of Americans on the Rhine, Bonn 1999, pp. 103-107.
• Reform without a double pass, in: Andreas Goldberg / Faruk Sen (ed.): German Turks - Turkish Germans. The discussion about dual citizenship, Münster, Hamburg, London 1999, pp. 39–42.
• Foreign policy as "Public Diplomacy" - Hans-Dietrich Genscher and the media, in: Hans-Dietrich Lucas (Ed.): Genscher, Germany and Europe, writings of the Center for European Integration Research, Baden-Baden 2002, pp. 371–386.
• "Chaos as normal case", selected observations of a journalist (1970-2004), Essen 2004.
• "The 'uncomfortable reliability' of the lateral entrant", in: Bentele / Faerber-Husemann / Scharpf / Steinbrück (eds.): Metamorphoses. Approaching a versatile friend. For Horst Ehmke zum Achtzigsten, Bonn, pp. 251–258.
• "Metropolis Rhine Ruhr". A region on the move (Ed.), 302 pp., Oberhausen 2007.
• China and Germany. Some build walls, others windmills, in: Schute (Hrsg.): Olympia 2008. Die Spiele der XXIX. Beijing Olympics, Essen 2008.
• Schmuddelkind im Schmollwinkel, North Korea's hereditary dynasty before the transfer of power in: Internationale Politik (IP), No. 5, September / October 2010, pp. 94–100.
• Starving for the dictator. A look behind the iron curtain of North Korea. In: Cicero No. 6 / June 2011, pp. 90-95.
• Strategic thinking, in: The New Order, Volume 65, Issue 3, June 2011, pp. 227–230.
• "The communicator", in: Kerstin Brauckhoff / Irmgard Schwaetzer, (eds.): Hans-Dietrich Genschers foreign policy, Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 2003-2005.
• "Tales of the Big Bear", with illustrations by Annika Brack (children's book), Norderstedt 2015.
• "A turning point in world politics. More events in uncertain times", by Sigmar Gabriel (collaboration on the author's manuscript), Freiburg im Breisgau, 2018.
• "Against the 'galloping alienation'", in: Adelheit Bahr (ed.): Why we need peace and friendship with Russia, Frankfurt / M. 2018, pp. 100-106.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Kiessler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What is your real mission? A German student in the prison of the Cuban secret service in: Der Spiegel from August 10, 1970, accessed on November 24, 2011
2. ↑ http://informer-magazine.de/2016/07/wer-wousse-was-in-der-essener-spd/