Henryk Broder

Life

Born in Katowice , Silesia , Poland, Broder moved to Cologne with his family in 1958. Both of his parents were survivors of Nazi concentration camps. In Cologne, he studied economics , law and psychology but failed to graduate. Together with fellow student and nascent writer Fred Viebahn  ( de ) , whom he had known since high school times, he founded and edited two short-lived radically liberal quarterback read ( “PoPoPo” and “Bubu / Eiapopeyea”). In the late 1960s he took over the St. Pauli News  ( DE )together with the journalist Michel Roger Lang, a highly successful tabloid newspaper in Hamburg , along with Günter Wallraff , Stefan Aust and the photographer Günter Zint  ( en ) , in order to work with a combination of leftist articles, nude photography and lonely hearts ads.

In the 1970s, citation for the satirical magazine Pardon  ( en ) . From 1979 to 1981 he published, together with fellow journalist Peter Finkelgruen  ( de ) , the periodical “Free Jewish Voice”. In 1981, he left Germany to work in Israel for a while, and continued to write for high-level periodicals as Die Zeit , Profil , Die Weltwoche , and Süddeutsche Zeitung . In the 1980s hosted the television talk-show so he people , alongwith Elke Heidenreich , Which ran onSender Freies Berlin ; one of Their guests what African-American poet Rita Dove , who had just won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and is married to Fred Viebahn, Broder’s old friend from Cologne.

Broder wrote a series of books which dealt with the relationship between Germans and Jews, respectively the growing German Jewish community. Together with Eike Geisel , Broder published essays, books and a documentary about the Jewish Cultural Union, a previously unknown chapter of Jewish German cultural life during the Third Reich. He wrote books on foreign policy with special regard to Israel, Islam and the growing German Jewish community.

Ever since Operation Entebbe , Broder grew more and more critical of the Israeli approach to Israel and what Broder sees as appeasement towards Islamic threats. In Broder’s opinion, Anti-Zionism is in essence anti-Semitic. ^[2]

Broder’s trademark is polemical, blunt and quick-witted style. He publishes hate mail and heated exchanges between him and critics on his website. The result of some of Broder’s polemics were a series of lawsuits, some won and some lost by him. Many of Broder’s writings for outlets are as spiegel.de and welt.de are archived at the Axis of the Good blog which, together with two other prominent German journalists, operates as a collaborative platform for the unfettered expression of about two dozen of his colleagues ,

Broder is married to a publisher and they have a grown daughter. He lives in Berlin.

Awards

• 1986 Prize of the 5th International Journalism Competition Klagenfurt
• 2005 Schubart Literary Prize
• 2007 Goldener Prometheus  ( en ) for Broder’s online journalism, especially the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
• 2007 Ludwig Börne Prize

Works

• Who is afraid of pornography? A porn report , Melzer, Darmstadt 1970
• As co-author: The scissors in the head. About censorship and self-censorship , Cologne 1976
• Thank you very much. Up to here and not further. With contributions by Detlef Hartmann, Ulrich Klug, Uwe Maeffert, Ulrich Vultejus , Konkret Literature-Verlag, Hamburg 1980
• The Eternal Anti-Semite. About sense and function of a constant feeling , 1986
• Foreign in your own country. Jews in the Federal Republic , 1987
• I love Karstadt and other eulogies , 1987
• with Geisel, Eike : Premiere and Pogrom. The Jewish Cultural Association 1933-1941. Texts and Pictures , Siedler, Berlin 1992 ISBN  3-88680-343-0
• Have mercy on the Germans , 1993
• Merry Christmas! On the Road in New Germany , 1994
• Volk and Wahn , Goldmann, Munich 1996
• The Jews of Mea Shearim , 1997
• The madmen of Zion , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1998
• To each his , Ölbaum Verlag 1999
• www.deutsche-leidkultur.de , Ölbaum Verlag 1999
• No war, nowhere: The Germans and the Terror , Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002
• A Jew in the New Germany , University of Illinois Press , Champaign, 2003
• Hurray, we surrender – From the pleasure of buckling , wjs Verlag, 2006
• Critique of Pure Tolerance , wjs Verlag, Berlin 2008
• Forget Auschwitz! The German memory mania and the final solution of the Israel question , Albrecht Knaus Verlag , Munich 2012

Audio

• Oh, how! Gad Granach and Henryk Broder on tour , CD, Olive Tree Publishing, Augsburg 2000, ISBN  3-927217-40-9

See also

• Evelyn Hecht-Galinski

References