Uwe Soukup

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Uwe Soukup at the memorial event for the death of Benno Ohnesorg in 2017

Uwe Soukup (* 1956 in West Berlin ) is a German journalist and book author.

His father was the university professor for school education and socialization researcher Gunther Soukup (1930 - 1997). After studying pedagogy, he worked in children's homes. He has been working as a freelance journalist since 1993 and was an editor for the daily newspaper Junge Welt from 1997-2000 , most recently as head of the domestic affairs department.

He re- published books by Sebastian Haffner at Verlag Berlin 1900 , which he founded :

  • The betrayal. Germany 1918/19 , relocated in 1993
  • Germany: Jekyll & Hyde. 1939 - Germany viewed from the inside , newly laid in 1996
  • Between the wars. Essays on Contemporary History , newly published in 1997

In 2001 he published a biography of Haffner. Haffner, who had written the article The Night of the Long Sticks about the death of Benno Ohnesorg in Stern , suggested how did Benno Ohnesorg die? on.

In 2018 the documentary How died Benno Ohnesorg ?, on which Soukup had worked as co-author, was nominated for the Grimme Prize .

I'm German, Sebastian Haffner, 2001

On Deutschlandfunk, Silke Rotzoll judged Soukup's biography that it was consistently exciting. Haffner's time at the Observer is captivating and remarkably well documented. Haffner becomes so exciting for Soukup because of the "charming imponderables", as expressed in the friendship with Ulrike Meinhof . Uwe Soukup wrote "the biography of the journalist and author Sebastian Haffner and not that of the private man Raimund Pretzel".

Works

Essays
  • “Can you fake something like that?” About Marinus van der Lubbe as an alleged single perpetrator. Konkret , 9, 2019, p. 15 (an interview with Fritzi Busch about why allegedly everything speaks for the fact that the SA started the Reichstag fire )

Web links

Commons : Uwe Soukup  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Wiegrefe: CONTEMPORARY HISTORY: An agile Infotainer . In: Der Spiegel . tape July 27 , 2002 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  2. ^ Story in the First: How did Benno Ohnesorg die? (RBB / HR). Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  3. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Director: Klaus Gietinger nominated for Grimme Prize. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  4. - I'm German. Sebastian Haffner: A biography. Accessed December 15, 2018 (German).