Stephan Kaußen
Stephan Kaußen (* 1969 in Aachen ) is a German freelance journalist, university lecturer and moderator. He is also an expert on contemporary South African history and politics.
Life
Kaußen has been working as a journalist since he was 18. He studied political science, history and international cooperation at the RWTH in Aachen, where he received his doctorate in 2003/4 with a dissertation on the reconciliation process in South Africa under Nelson Mandela .
Since 2001 he has been a live reporter for the WDR 2 radio station in the Bundesliga, Champions and Europa League, tennis, ice hockey and athletics. Since October 2010, Kaußen has also held a professorship for sports and political journalism at the private Macromedia University in Cologne.
He was one of the initiators of the “Partnership with Kick 2006-2010” (InWEnt, GIZ ), which made broad expertise of German experts available for the soccer World Cup in South Africa.
Kaußen's areas of expertise are international politics, South Africa and sports. “Social development through sport” is one of the main motifs of his involvement with major international sporting events, while “humanism” and “altruism” are the focus of his teaching activities. His book Europe Turning Times (2015) deals with the European refugee and systemic crisis. It discusses the current relapse into national reflexes in historical derivation. He also criticizes the business administration and RTLisation of western society, i.e. increasing egoism and the trivialisation of media and consumers.
Kaußen moderated various football world and European championships at fan festivals (e.g. in Berlin 2010, Hamburg 2008), in the South African embassy (with Desmond Tutu, among others ) or as part of numerous company (Telekom Berlin 2009), art, trade fair , Sports or club events.
Publications (selection)
- Ten years after apartheid . SWP, Berlin 2004
- From apartheid to democracy . West German Publishing house, Wiesbaden 2004
- End of the rainbow. Has the dream of Africa's greatest bearer of hope already burst? in: Brockhaus Perspektive / Wissenmedia, Gütersloh / Munich 2012
- Food for thought from a different perspective. A sketchbook made up of paintings and essays on the state of our time (with Ralf Metzenmacher) Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2013
- 20 years of freedom. Mandelas South Africa. Vision or reality? . Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2014
- Europe's turning point: structural power as the boomerang of the West . Canim Verlag, Nuremberg 2015
- with Christian Nürnberger : Nelson Mandela . Gabriel Verlag, Stuttgart 2018
- We are starving with full stomachs: time for an ecological humanism? Canim Verlag, Nuremberg 2020
Web links
- Web presence
- South Africa article by Kaußen on the Federal Agency for Civic Education page
- Literature by and about Stephan Kaußen in the catalog of the German National Library
- All in one: political scientist, sports journalist, South Africa expert, university lecturer. Interview with Stephan Kaussen (2015)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.macromedia-fachhochschule.de/hochschule/menschen/professoren/personendetails/vita/kaussen.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaußen, Stephan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, university lecturer and moderator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |