Roman Grafe

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Roman Grafe (* 1968 ) is a German author and journalist .

Life

Roman Grafe was born in 1968 in the northeast of the GDR . After applying to leave the country in 1985 at the age of 17, he finally managed to move to the Federal Republic of Germany in January 1989. He then studied journalism at the St. Gallen School of Journalism in Switzerland. Since 1993 he has been working as an author and freelance journalist for ARD and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others . His books deal mainly with the history of the GDR, especially the history of the inner-German border and the trials against the wall gunners and their commanders.

Activities against private gun possession

After the rampage in Winnenden in March 2009, Grafe and others founded the initiative No murder weapons as sports weapons! which advocates tightening gun law and, in particular, a ban on deadly firearms in shooting sports . A corresponding suit before the Federal Constitutional Court was unsuccessful.

Lawsuit against the book German Justice

The book Deutsche Gerechtigkeit von Grafe received greater media attention when the Berlin district court prohibited the publication of the work in 2006. The former political officer of the GDR border troops, Sven Hüber , who got into a senior position in the federal police after German reunification , had sued against an identifying report on his person. The plaintiff is alleged indirectly in the book of moral complicity in the death of Chris Gueffroy . As a political officer, the plaintiff was responsible for the section of the border in which Gueffroy, the last victim on the Berlin Wall , who was killed by the use of weapons on the inner-German border, was shot. The publishing house and Grafe as well as the Süddeutsche Zeitung appealed against the decisions of the regional court. On March 16 and 19, 2007, the Berlin Court of Appeal lifted both the ban on naming names in the book and the ban on identifying media coverage.

See also

Publications

Books
  • The border through Germany - a chronicle from 1945 to 1990 . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88680-744-4 .
  • German Justice - Trials against GDR border guards and their commanders . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88680-819-X .
  • The wall newspaper. The offense of Thomas Jonscher. A story from the GDR . Contemporary stories e. V., Halle 2008, ISBN 398081209X
  • Ed .: The guilt of fellow travelers. Adapt or resist in the GDR . With texts by Wolf Biermann a . a. Pantheon, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-55106-6 .
  • More light. The life's work of Roten Itting . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-941-1 .
  • Greetings from the GDR . Photos by Dietmar Riemann and texts by Roman Grafe. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-943-5 .
  • Fun and death. From the sports gun mania . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2019, ISBN 978-3-96311-128-0 .
Radio features (selection)
  • To avoid further provocations. The short life story of Michael Gartenschläger . SWR / SR 2003
  • A city in the dirt. Community service in Tijuana . SWR / SR 2004
Audio book
Movies
  • More light. The life's work of Franz Itting. Germany 2005 (script and direction)
  • Locked up, sealed off. The border through Germany 1945–1990 . Germany 2007 (script and direction)
Lectures
items

literature

  • Regina Mönch: “German Justice. The Political Officer's Second Career ”. In: FAZ , December 5, 2006.
  • “Thierse protests against the ban on books. SPD and Union politicians to clarify the GDR dictatorship ”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 8, 2006.
  • Joachim Güntner: "Example of a turning point". In: NZZ , December 9, 2006.

Web links

 Wikinews: Supreme Court strengthens freedom of the press  - news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman Grafe in: Perlentaucher, accessed on April 2, 2012
  2. ↑ "Shooting is not a human right". In: Zeit , 33/2010.
  3. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/winnenden-hinterbliebene-enttaeuscht-bundesverfassungsgericht-WEIS-klagen-auf-strengeres-waffenrecht-ab/7791698.html
  4. ↑ http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/pressemitteilungen/bvg13-008.html
  5. ↑ http://www.sportmordwaffen.de/Verfassungsbeschwerde-Entscheid-Presseerklaerung-Ableahrung-2013.pdf
  6. ↑ No name, no face - why the GDR historiography must not be censored by the courts Contrasts (RBB)
  7. ↑ Berlin Court of Appeal: Judgment file number 10 U 49/06 grounds for judgment of March 19, 2007, accessed on April 2, 2012
  8. ↑ Berlin Court of Appeal: Judgment file number 9 U 88/06 grounds for judgment of March 16, 2007, accessed on April 2, 2012
  9. ↑ Supreme Court: Naming a former officer of the East German border troops allowed (PM 16/2007) . Senate Department for Justice, Berlin, press release of March 19, 2007, accessed on April 3, 2012
  10. ↑ Renate Oschlies: Political officer of the GDR may be exposed . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 20, 2007
  11. ^ Roman Grafe: A German Career and a Justice Nightmare . In: sueddeutsche.de , October 24, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Count, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968