Volker Mauersberger

Volker Mauersberger (* 1939 in Weimar ) is a German journalist and author .

Career

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Volker Mauersberger worked for twelve years as a correspondent for the Iberian Peninsula for ARD and Die Zeit in Madrid and later as a studio manager as well as radio and newspaper correspondent in Bonn and Berlin. He has been retired since 2004 and, following numerous non-fiction books, wrote his first crime novel Kalte Wut in 2009 . Published the case of Ellen Rinsche , which was also published in paperback in 2014.

After graduating from high school and doing an internship at Westdeutscher Rundfunk and the Gevelsberger Zeitung / Ennepetaler Zeitung , Mauersberger studied law, economics and social sciences and completed his studies with a diploma and a doctorate on political conservatism in the Weimar Republic at the University of Göttingen. He then worked as a political editor in the radio department of the WDR, for which he reported as a special correspondent from Warsaw, Washington and Lisbon.

After studying as an Eisenhower Fellow in Philadelphia (1974) and receiving a Bucerius scholarship at Harvard (1976), he became an ARD correspondent in Madrid in 1977, only to switch to Radio Bremen as radio editor-in-chief six years later. The commitment of the foreign correspondent, whom he describes as “the most beautiful job in the world”, did not let go of the committed journalist. After three years of management activity, he returned to Madrid as an ARD correspondent at his own request, where he was particularly concerned with the accession of Spain and Portugal to the EC.

After returning to Germany in 1992, he devoted himself to a. his book project Hitler in Weimar - The Case of a German City of Culture , which also dealt with the processing of one's own family history. As a member of the SS, his father had become the perpetrator who invariably believed in Hitler's henchmen. How could such partisanship succeed, of all places, in the muse city of Weimar, that is, in the alleged stronghold of the German spirit and the city of Goethe and Schiller, where the author's family had lived for a long time? This question ran like a red thread through the book, which settles accounts with an intellectual bourgeoisie that submitted to the command structure of the Nazi state early on. As an author for ARD, Die Zeit and other publications, Mauersberger prefers political and historical topics. From 2004 to 2006 he taught as a visiting lecturer at the University of Münster before he published his biography about the ex-mayor of Bremen, Henning Scherf, whom he described as a protagonist between "politics and morality". Two years later, the documentary thriller Kalte Wut followed. The Ellen Rinsche case , for which he documents an authentic crime from his former hometown. “German history using the example of a criminal case. The author can tell as if people were waiting for him ”, praised the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Mauersberger is married, has three children and lives in Bonn and Madrid.

Works

• Cold anger. The Ellen Rinsche case . Novel. Paperback, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-37466-3003-8
• Bloody morning. About the assassination attempt on Carrero Blanco in 1973 . In: DIE ZEIT, November 28, 2013, No. 49 Dossier History.
• Like father and son. About Felipe Gonzalez and Willy Brandt . In: Die Zeit, November 14, 2013, No. 47 Dossier History
• El Pais stands for a democratic Spain , in: Norbert Bicher, Alfons Pieper (Hrsg.) Newspaper under pressure. Plea for a cultural asset. Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-84427-293-2
• Between the lines - Rudolf Pechel and his journalistic struggle for freedom and justice . In: Christoph Studt (Ed.) “Servant of the state or resistance between the lines? The role of the press in the Third Reich. ”Berlin 2007
• The arduous way to myself. The German life of Carola Stern. TV film with Hinnerick Bröskamp. Arte, 3 Sat, WDR. 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWSZAKDYysU
• The curious one . A portrait of the journalist Gerd Ruge. First broadcast by ARD on October 27, 2002, Nordwestradio, with statements by Peter Merseburger, Thomas Roth, Carola Stern and others.
• Henning Scherf. Between power and morality. A political biography . Bremen 2007, ISBN 3-86108-369-8 .
• Citizen Hitler . How Thuringia's conservatives made a small populist party capable of forming a coalition in 1929/30. In: Die Zeit, February 24, 200O No. 9, page 82
• Hitler in Weimar. The case of a German cultural city . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87134-340-4 .
• Spain - Change to Europe , Aarau 1991, ISBN 3-85502-393-X .
• Spain and Portugal , in: Yearbook of European Integration 1981. Edited by Werner Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Wessels, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7713-0191-2
• How left can Jusos be? From fright to citizens' initiative , Reinbek 1974, ISBN 3-499-11769-X .
• Rudolf Pechel and the Deutsche Rundschau. A study on conservative-revolutionary journalism in the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) (Studies on journalism. Volume 16). Schünemann, Bremen 1971, ISBN 3-7961-3023-2 .
• Berlin W 30, Motzstraße 22. The June Club: Conservative Revolutionaries in the Weimar Republic, (I), in: PUBLIK, No. 34, Volume 3, August 21, 1970, p. 19
• Officers without an army. Conservative Revolutionaries in the Weimar Republic (II), in: PUBLIK, No. 35, Volume 3, August 28, 1970, p. 19

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Mauersberger in the catalog of the German National Library