Klaus Huhn
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Klaus Huhn (24 February 1928 – 20 January 2017) was a German sports journalist, writer and sports administrator.{{cite web|url=http://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%2363%3B-1424.html?ID=3603|author1= Klaus Gallinat |title=Ullrich, Klaus (eigtl.: Klaus Huhn) * 24.2.1928 Sportjournalist|publisher= Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken |language= German|accessdate= 15 July 2015}} 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.[http://www.focus.de/magazin/archiv/ddr-journalist-klaus-huhn-war-stasi-spitzel_aid_154495.html Journalist Klaus Huhn war Stasi-Spitzel.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924170459/http://www.focus.de/magazin/archiv/ddr-journalist-klaus-huhn-war-stasi-spitzel_aid_154495.html |date=2015-09-24 }} In: Focus Magazin. Nr. 45 (1995), 6. November 1995.
He published several books about the cycling legend Gustav-Adolf Schur, and was employed as the ghostwriter for Schur's autobiography.{{cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezension-sachbuch-held-der-beinarbeit-11269834.html|title=Held der Beinarbeit ..... Heilige Sattelzeiten: Gustav-Adolf Schur radelt in seiner Autobiographie über Hölzchen und Stöckchen |first=Michael | last = Reinsch |newspaper=Faz.net |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (online)|date=20 March 2001|accessdate=15 July 2015}} The book's objectivity was questioned by one reviewer who described it as "shameless propaganda".
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.
In 1946 he joined the Deutsche Volkszeitung, the central organ of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the Soviet occupation zone.{{citation | first = Kristen | last = Benning | date = 1997 | title = Die Geschichte des SED-Zentralorgans Neues Deutschland von 1946 bis 1949. Die Waffenlieferanten "im Kampfe gegen die Reaktion und ihre Verwirrungsmanöver" |trans-title=The history of SED's official journal Neues Deutschland from 1946 to 1949: Arms suppliers "in the struggle against reactionaries and their strategies of distraction" | language = German | location = Münster | publisher = LIT Verlag }} 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.Wolfgang Hübner: [https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1039288.eine-grosse-nummer.html Eine große Nummer], Nachruf in Neues Deutschland, 21 Januar 2017
Books
- 2016 Exkursion durch volkseigene Ruinen: Vom Verschwinden einer ganzen Volkswirtschaft, ("Excursion Through Nationalized Ruins: the Disappearance of an Entire Economy"), Edition Berolina, {{ISBN|978-3958-4106-57}}{{cite book|title=Exkursion durch volkseigene Ruinen: Vom Verschwinden einer ganzen Volkswirtschaft|first=Klaus|last=Huhn|publisher=edition berolina|id={{ASIN|3958410650|country=de}}}}
References
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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 {{ISBN|978-3-360-01822-9}}.
- Michael Meyen, Anke Fiedler (ed.) (2010), Die Grenze im Kopf. Journalisten in der DDR, Panama Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3-938714-16-4}}.
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