Robert of Lucius

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Robert of Lucius (2009)

Robert von Lucius (born May 2, 1949 in Berlin ) is a German journalist. From 1987 to 2014 he was a correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Life

As the son of a diplomat, Lucius lived in Oslo from 1952 to 1957 and from 1963 to 1968 in Cape Town and Windhoek , where he graduated from high school in 1967. As a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (basic and doctoral funding ), he studied law and political science at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn from 1968 to 1973 . He became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg (1968) and Corpsschleifträger of Borussia Bonn (1980). In Heidelberg he was involved in university politics . After the legal traineeshiphe was a research assistant at the Canon Law Institute and research assistant at the International Law Institute of the University of Bonn. As a freelance journalist, he gave many lectures. In 1979 he became the publisher and editor-in-chief of the specialist journal Afrika - Recht & Wirtschaft . He worked repeatedly in the United States in the McCloy Academic Scholarship Program . Since 1982 editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , he devoted himself in the political newsroom to the topics Africa and Western Europe . From 1987 he was a correspondent in Johannesburg for southern Africa (until 1996) and for all of Africa. In April 2001 he went to Stockholm as a correspondent for Northern Europe and the Baltic States . Since June 2006 he has been a correspondent for Lower Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Bremen . His forays through Saxony-Anhalt , published in the FAZ, appeared as a book in 2012. He wrote many articles for encyclopedias, manuals, commemorative publications, art catalogs and anthologies. He is a recognized expert on the photographic work of Jürgen Schadeberg . After retiring, he moved from Hanover to Berlin-Tiergarten . He has been a member of the Association for the History of Berlin since 2016 . Among other things, he looks after the archives of his great-grandfather Robert Hue de Grais ; it is "of national cultural importance".

Honorary positions

Honors

Fictional hero

A "Robert von Lucius" is the central figure in Joanna Kavenna's second novel The Birth of Love (2010). In its issue No. 60 of March 12, 2011, the Hanoverian Neue Presse reported on it (p. 21).

Publications

  • South Africa. Black hope, white willingness to reform . German Africa Foundation, Bonn 1981.
  • The White Circle , in: Gisela Völger, Karin von Welck (Hrsg.): Männerbande Männerbünde. On the role of man in a cultural comparison (exhibition catalog). Cologne 1990, Vol. 2, pp. 373-380.
  • A white man in the black world , foreword to Ralf-Peter Seippel (Ed.): Jürgen Schadeberg . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2150-9 , pp. 8–19 (English / German / French).
  • Not from here and not from there. Upheaval and breaks in South Africa , 2nd edition. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2010, ISBN 978-3-89812-644-1 . GoogleBooks
  • “As if it were a piece of me” - The Corps Saxo-Borussia in literature . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 55 (2010), pp. 125–142.
  • Three Baltic routes. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia - crushed and risen , 2nd, updated and revised edition. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-822-3 .
  • Dense and extremely rich. Forays through Saxony-Anhalt . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2013, ISBN 978-3-89812-976-3 . GoogleBooks . 2nd updated edition 2015.
  • Welfenland with butterflies. Forays through Lower Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2013, ISBN 978-3-95462-118-7 .
  • Between the Weser and space. Forays through Bremen . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2015, ISBN 978-3-95462-527-7 .
  • with Henning Kreitel: Another beer? Berlin pubs in Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf, Schöneberg, Friedenau, Kreuzberg and Neukölln . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2017. ISBN 978-3954628827 .
  • with Ulf Morgenstern (ed.): Doctor and adventurer, minister and memoir writer: Autobiographical notes of Bismarck's confidante Robert Lucius von Ballhausen . Friedrichsruher contributions from the Otto von Bismarck Foundation 48 (2017). ISBN 978-3-933418-59-3 .
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Frankfurt am Main . Morio Verlag, ISBN 9783945424742 .

editor

  • White-Green-Black-White. Contributions to the history of the Corps Saxo-Borussia zu Heidelberg , Vol. 2: 1934–2008 . Heidelberg 2008.
  • August Lucius: Be prepared for everything except to turn back - Erfurt, Havana, Rome . Wolff Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-941461-32-1 .

literature

  • Stefan Dietrich: Robert von Lucius on his 60th birthday . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 101, May 2, 2009, p. 4.

Web links

Commons : Robert von Lucius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1981, 66/1655; 9/1283.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Schadeberg, the Alfred Eisenstaedt of South Africa (afrikapost 2/2007) ( Memento of the original of October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afrikapost.de
  3. ↑ We welcome our new members . In: Communications of the Association for the History of Berlin 113th Vol. 1, January 2017, p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Lucius, Robert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin