Ulrich Chaussy

Ulrich Chaussy (2015)

Ulrich Chaussy (* 1952 in Karlsruhe ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author who gained notoriety through his research into the Munich Oktoberfest attack.

biography

Chaussy moved to Munich in 1965 , attended the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium and studied German and sociology . After graduating, he began to work as a journalist for radio ( BR , WDR , and Radio Bremen ) and published numerous non-fiction books.

On suspicion that bombs were being built there, police officers with submachine guns stormed the community of Chaussy in 1977. However, this turned out to be misinformation.

Ulrich Chaussy is an avowed critic of the official investigation result ("single perpetrator thesis") of the Oktoberfest attack. His decades-long struggle to resume the investigation in the case of the assassination, which he led together with the lawyer Werner Dietrich , is described in the feature film The Blind Spot . Chaussy and filmmaker Daniel Harrich describe in the TV documentary “Assassin. Lone perpetrator? News from the Oktoberfest attack ”. All previous research by Chaussys and Daniel Harrich can be followed as interactive web documentation.

Chaussy was the initiator of a referendum against the closure of city libraries and in 2004 founded a support association called books & more .

Works (selection)

Books

• The three lives of Rudi Dutschke. A biography. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1983; Pendo, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85842-532-X .
• Oktoberfest. An assassination attempt. How the suppression of right-wing terror began. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1985; Links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-757-1 .
• Neighbor Hitler. The cult of the Führer and the destruction of homes on the Obersalzberg . Links, Berlin 1995; 7th act. Edition ibid. 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-704-5 .
• Long live freedom! The history of the White Rose and its members in documents and reports (with Gerd R. Ueberschär ). Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-18937-3 .
• Rudi Dutschke: Die Biographie , Droemer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3426277522

Audio books

• To defend oneself against all forces . The story of the white rose. An audio image. 2 compact cassettes + text with 92 pages. Sound documents - Bayerischer Rundfunk. Series: Our Century on the Radio, Munich 1993.
• The white rose . A multimedia documentation of German resistance; Archive, exhibition and monograph on CD-ROM. Systhema, Munich 1995.
• Oktoberfest attack . CD, a production of the Hessischer Rundfunk. Audiobook Hamburg , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-934120-39-3 .
• Obersalzberg - From the mountain farming village to the Führer's restricted area . Contemporary witnesses report. DVD. Publisher: Institute for Contemporary History , Munich 2004, ISBN 3-9807890-5-5 . (also as a video with ISBN 3-9807890-1-2 )

broadcast

• Operation Foxley. How the British wanted to kill Hitler on Obersalzberg. Feature. Bayerischer Rundfunk , 2006
• When the Stasi looks at the federal prosecutor's fingers. The Oktoberfest attack in a new light . Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2010
• My name is BND . ARD radio feature, 2011
• I was just doing my duty. The intrepid gendarme Paul Mayer , 2012
• Comrade Quelle, Comrade V-Mann . ARD radio feature, 2012
• Secret Army STAY BEHIND - The state as godfather of terror . Bavarian Broadcasting, 2014
• Rudi Dutschke Revisited. Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2018

Movies

• Ulrich Chaussy, Marieke Schroeder : Sophie Scholl - All violence despite ... Documentary Germany 2005. On programm.ard.de, accessed on August 30, 2018
• The blind spot - culprit. Assassin. Lone perpetrator? Movie 2014. Ulrich Chaussy is played by Benno Fürmann .
• Daniel Harrich , Ulrich Chaussy: Assassin - Single perpetrator? News about the Oktoberfest attack. ARD Mediathek, accessed on February 5, 2015, available until February 3, 2025.

Private

Ulrich Chaussy is married and has one child.

Awards

• 1972 Honored recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize
• 2010 Herwig Weber Prize - Prize of the International Press Club Munich for its radio feature When the Stasi looks at the federal prosecutor's fingers .
• 2014 Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver for over 30 years of research into the background to the Oktoberfest attack.
• 2015 Lighthouse Prize
• 2015 Krenkl Prize
• 2015 winner in the category "TV journalism" at the German Academy for Television Award 2015 together with Daniel Harrich for assassins - single perpetrators? News about the Oktoberfest attack
• 2016 Journalism Prize from the City of Munich

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Chaussy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Author's website
• Literature by and about Ulrich Chaussy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ulrich Chaussy in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography | Ulrich Chaussy. Retrieved May 5, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The Wiesn attack and the uncomfortable reporter oktoberfest-live.de of January 23, 2014
3. ↑ http://mediathek.daserste.de/Reportage-Dokumentation/Attentäter-Einzeltäter-Neues-zum-Okto/Das-Erste/Video?documentId=26296154
4. ↑ http://www.oktoberfest-attentat.de
5. ↑ German Union of Journalists: Interview with Ulrich Chaussy
6. ↑ https://netzwerkrecherche.org/blog/nr-leuchtturm-fuer-ulrich-chaussy/
7. ↑ False securities. In: sueddeutsche.de. October 11, 2015, accessed May 18, 2018 . 
8. ↑ State Capital Munich, Editor: Publizistikpreis 2016. In: State Capital Munich. Retrieved April 7, 2016 .