Xing-Hu Kuo

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Xing-Hu Kuo (Hin-Houw Kwee) (* 1938 in Jakarta , Indonesia ; † July 18, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and book author of Chinese descent.

Life

Kuo Xing-Hu (Kwee Hin-Houw) was born in Jakarta in 1938 as the son of a well-known Chinese-born publisher, book author and journalist. After attending Dutch and Indonesian schools, he graduated from high school in 1956 .

Kuo studied journalism in Leipzig until 1961 and worked as a lecturer and freelance journalist until 1965. He also worked as a translator in the Chinese embassy in East Berlin until 1965 .

Since he publicly on socialism doubt and friends of West Berlin smuggled he was seven and a half years in 1965 prison sentenced, of which he spent six years in Stasi -Gefängnis Bautzen II . While in solitary confinement, Kuo attempted suicide in 1970.

In 1972 he was ransomed by the Federal Republic of Germany and worked as a political editor at Axel Springer Verlag ( Die Welt ), first in West Berlin, then from 1979 in Stuttgart. His special focus was on North Korea . He published several books on this Stalinist state.

During his time in southern Germany he founded the Anita Tykve Verlag, named after his wife. This specialized in literature about the GDR. The first time after the fall of the Wall he returned with his publishing house in 1990 to the First Alternative Book Fair in Leipzig , which was still in the GDR.

In the autumn of 1992, Kuo fought his rehabilitation for the Stasi detention before the Berlin Regional Court . However, since he was unable to prove that the SED had directly controlled the proceedings, the SED successor party, PDS Kuo , requested payment of the legal fees of almost DM 11,000.

In the mid-1990s, Kuo worked as a press and public relations officer for the memorial library honoring the victims of communism .

He then went to the Netherlands for a few years. There his story received a lot of attention. In 2008 he returned to Germany and canceled his publishing house.

Xing-Hu Kuo last lived in Berlin and died on July 17 or 18, 2016 (the date of death is mentioned differently in different publications). He was married and had two sons. One son died in 1991 under unknown circumstances. His wife died in 2015.

Awards

Fonts

  • Free China. Asian economic miracle. , Seewald 1982, ISBN 3-512-00655-8
  • North Korea: A Far Eastern Gulag , Seewald 1983, ISBN 3-512-00681-7
  • Murder in the mausoleum: Kim Il-sung's terrorists in Rangoon , Seewald 1984, ISBN 3-512-00714-7
  • Vodka in champagne glasses. Cocktail from my lovely Stasi ladies , Anita Tykve Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-925-43477-1
  • Alone against the red mafia. A Chinese fights against SED / Stasi clusters , Anita Tykve Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-925434-83-6
  • A Chinese in Bautzen II: 2675 nights in the stranglehold of the Stasi , Anita Tykve Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-925434-35-6

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Xing-Hu Kuo tot: A Chinese who wrote a chapter of German history . In: VEREINIGUNG JUNI 17, 1953 eV July 22, 2016 ( wordpress.com [accessed on March 29, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Xing-Hu Kuo: North Korea: A Far Eastern Gulag , Seewald 1983, ISBN 3-512-00681-7 , p. 260
  3. ^ Henry Bernhard: "Special object for public enemies." The Stasi high security prison Bautzen II , DLF , August 8, 2006.
  4. ↑ Uwe Gerig: Red God in "Paradise" , Anita Tykve Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-925434-14-3 , p. 111.
  5. ↑ a b In a bizarre way he got caught in the shackles of the SED dictatorship. 66th year, No. 765/66. In: Liberty Bell. VOS - Association of Victims of Stalinism eV, August 2016, p. 15 , accessed on March 29, 2018 .
  6. ↑ "The Second Punishment of Xing-Hu Kuo" , Focus , H. 22, May 29, 1993.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Templin : “Memorial library in honor of the victims of Stalinism - the current conflict”, in: Horch and Guck , 1995, no. 16, pp. 85–90.
  8. ↑ Xing-Hu Kuo: North Korea: A Far Eastern Gulag , Seewald 1983, ISBN 3-512-00681-7 , p. 260.
personal data
SURNAME Kuo, Xing-Hu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author of Chinese descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Jakarta , Indonesia
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2016
Place of death Berlin