Alan Posener

Alan Posener (born 8 October 1949 in London) is a British- German journalist. He is the son of the architectural historian Julius Posener.

Life

Father's side, from a liberal German - Jewish, his mother came from a Anglo- Scottish family, he grew up in England, Malaysia and Germany. Posener studied German and English at the University of Berlin and the Ruhr- University Bochum. He was active as a cadre of the Communist Student Association and the Maoist KPD - AO. After graduating Poznań worked as a teacher at the Berlin Kant -Gymnasium and at the Martin Buber Comprehensive School in Berlin-Spandau. He left the teaching profession, as he says, out of " boredom ".

In 1987 he wrote the monograph Rowohlt John Lennon. This was followed by monographs on John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, William Shakespeare, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and finally Mary, the mother of Jesus. Furthermore, Poznań wrote a " Duographie " Stalin - Roosevelt ( EVA) and a " couples " biography of John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy ( Rowohlt Berlin). Over several years, was Posener textbook writer for the Ernst Klett Verlag.

From 1999 to 2004 he was an employee of the world, first as a writer, then as an editor. From 2004 to 2008 he was head of the World comment on Sunday. For this newspaper, he now works as a correspondent for politics and society. When the Berlin cooking street should be renamed in 2005 in Rudi Dutschke -Straße, he took the other hand resolutely position. Rudi Dutschke had nothing of " capitalism and consumerism, liberalism and parliamentarism " held that it was no coincidence that his colleague Horst Mahler - then a member of the same KPD as Poznań - " had landed at the NPD ".

In May 2007, Poznań threw in his blog on the world online image editor in chief Kai Diekmann " hypocrisy " before and wrote that the Bild-Zeitung " Operating the lowest instincts," the. After scolding colleagues in the Springer -Verlag, which publishes both image and the world, the entry in Posener blog was removed within a few hours from the website of the publisher. By reporting on the process in Blog and other online media the issue became public.

To a controversy between Poznań and the FAZ editor Lorenz Jäger came after Hunter had sharply attacked in a newspaper article Poznań. Poznań was a regular author of the Blogs The Axis of Good, to the cooperation he was terminated in May 2009 by Dirk Maxeiner, Henryk M. Broder and Michael Miersch. Since November 2009 he is part of the writing team of strong - meinungen.de, one operated by Margaret Heckel and Michel Friedman platform.

In his 2009 published book titled Benedict's crusade he considers Pope Benedict XVI. a "crusade against the Enlightenment " before. Under the title The dangerous Pope this book was published in 2011 in an expanded and updated paperback edition. Poznań criticized not only the pontificate of Benedict XVI, but generally believes. "Religion is bad for the people."

2009/10 resulted in Poznań a weekly debate with the editor in chief of the online magazine The European, Alexander Gorlach to religious and ethical issues.

Writings

Biographies see above.

  • Empire of the future. Why Europe must be a world power (Bonn 2007).
  • Benedict's crusade. The attack of the Vatican on modern society (Berlin 2009).
  • The dangerous pope. A polemic against Benedict XVI (Berlin, 2011).
  • John F. Kennedy. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-05313-0.

School Readings:

  • Late Again!
  • School Uniform - No Thanks!
  • The Beatles Story
  • The Shop
  • Oh! Carol and Other Stories Steve
  • The Story Bag
  • Foul!
  • Monster ( Ernst Klett Verlag)
  • The Double Life of a Very Black Cat
  • Elvis - the Boy Who Rocked the World
  • Olli from Ossiland
  • Fairyland ( Egmont Publishing, Copenhagen)
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