Klaus Huhn Explained
Klaus Huhn (24 February 1928 – 20 January 2017) was a German sports journalist, writer and sports administrator.[1] Huhn worked for the East German mass-market daily newspaper, Neues Deutschland, and was chairman of the Sports Journalists Sub-Association within that country's important Union of Journalists.
As a writer he concentrated on the great names from the sporting history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and wrote, more recently, largely for the "GDR nostalgia" readership.[2]
He published several books about the cycling legend Gustav-Adolf Schur, and was employed as the ghostwriter for Schur's autobiography.[3] The book's objectivity was questioned by one reviewer who described it as "shameless propaganda".[3]
Life
Huhn was born into a Communist family, in Berlin, where his father was a clerical worker. Huhn attended secondary school in Berlin and in Saalfeld.[1]
In 1946 he joined the Deutsche Volkszeitung, the central organ of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the Soviet occupation zone. In 1954 he took a correspondence course in journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and in 1983 he was at the German College of Physical Culture, also in Leipzig, with a doctorate in pedagogy.
He died at the age of 88 on 20 January 2017.[4]
Books
- 2016 Exkursion durch volkseigene Ruinen: Vom Verschwinden einer ganzen Volkswirtschaft, ("Excursion Through Nationalized Ruins: the Disappearance of an Entire Economy"), Edition Berolina, [5]
Further reading
- Friedrichs, Hanns Joachim (1994), Journalists Lives, Munich, pp. 149 et seq.
- Huhn, Klaus (2011), Auch dem Papst half ich mal aus der Klemme. Episoden eines bewegten Lebens, Berlin: Edition Ost .
- Michael Meyen, Anke Fiedler (ed.) (2010), Die Grenze im Kopf. Journalisten in der DDR, Panama Verlag, .
Notes and References
- Web site: Ullrich, Klaus (eigtl.: Klaus Huhn) * 24.2.1928 Sportjournalist. Klaus Gallinat . Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken . German. 15 July 2015.
- http://www.focus.de/magazin/archiv/ddr-journalist-klaus-huhn-war-stasi-spitzel_aid_154495.html Journalist Klaus Huhn war Stasi-Spitzel.
- News: Held der Beinarbeit ..... Heilige Sattelzeiten: Gustav-Adolf Schur radelt in seiner Autobiographie über Hölzchen und Stöckchen . Michael . Reinsch . Faz.net . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (online). 20 March 2001. 15 July 2015.
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- Book: Huhn, Klaus. Exkursion durch volkseigene Ruinen: Vom Verschwinden einer ganzen Volkswirtschaft. edition berolina. .