Henryk Broder
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Henryk Modest Broder (born Henryk Marcin Broder on August 20, 1946) is a German journalist and author. Broder is well known for his polemics and Columns and his comments in written and oral media. Broder writes for the magazine Der Spiegel as well as its online version and the daily Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. He is co-editor of Der Jüdische Kalender (The Jewish Calendar), a compilation of quotes and texts relating to Jewish-German culture, which is published annually.
Topics comprise among others Iceland, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Islamism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israel, and the German left relationship of Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism.
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[edit] Life
Born in Katowice, Poland, Broder moved to Cologne with his family in 1958. Here, he studied economics and law. In the end of the 1960s he took over the St. Pauli-Nachrichten, a newspaper in Hamburg, along with Günter Wallraff and the photogropher Günter Zint, in order to agitate the working class of the city. In the 1970s, he wrote for the satirical magazine Pardon. In 1981, he worked in Israel for a short time, but continued to write for such periodicals as Die Zeit, Profil, Die Weltwoche, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. In the 1980s he also hosted the television talk-show Leute, which ran on Sender Freies Berlin, along with Elke Heidenreich.
He 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 had published essays and books and a documentary film about Jüdischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Union), a previously-unknown chapter of Jewish German cultural life during the Nazi area. He wrote a series of books which dealt with the relationship between German Jews, foreign policy with special regard to Israel and Islam and the growing German Jewish community.
Ever since Operation Entebbe, Broder grew more critical of German Pacifism and what Broder calls appeasement towards Islamist threats. Broder grew famous with his points about antisemitism, which focused not on only German right wing anti-Jewish sentiments but denounced left-wing Antizionism as being of a similar kind[1]:
| “ | Der Antizionismus ist für Nichtjuden wie für Juden nur eine Ausrede, ihren Antisemitismus sozusagen in einer politisch aseptischen Form präsentieren zu können. Kein Mensch geht hin und sagt: Ich bin Antisemit. Es gibt keinen Antizionismus, der seinen Ursprung nicht im Antisemitismus hätte. (Antizionism is for Jews and non-Jews just a pretext to present antisemitism in a political aseptical version. Nobody just comes around saying "I am an antisemite." There is no Antizionism which doesn't have its origin in antisemitism.) | ” |
Broder supported the Iraq War and the overthrow of the anti-Israeli regime under Hussein from the beginning.
His polemical style drew fire and dire criticism and as well significant prizes and appraisal. The most notorious examples Broder often publishes on his website and on the Achse des Guten Weblog Broder operates.
[edit] Awards
- 1986 Preis des 5. International Publizistikwettbewerbs Klagenfurt
- 2005 Schubart-Literaturpreis
- 2007 Goldener Prometheus for Broders Online-Publishing, especially about the way he treated the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
- 2007 Ludwig-Börne-Preis in Frankfurt Paulskirche [2] Helmut Markwort described Broder as a free spirit, passionate writer, a polemic and political incorrect, always independent and surprising. [3]
[edit] Works
- Wer hat Angst vor Pornographie? Ein Porno-Report, Melzer, Darmstadt 1970
- As co-author: Die Schere im Kopf. Über Zensur und Selbstzensur, Köln 1976
- Danke schön. Bis hierher und nicht weiter. Mit Beiträgen von Detlef Hartmann, Ulrich Klug, Uwe Maeffert, Ulrich Vultejus, Konkret Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1980
- Der Ewige Antisemit. Über Sinn und Funktion eines beständigen Gefühls, 1986
- Fremd im eigenen Land. Juden in der Bundesrepublik, 1987
- Ich liebe Karstadt und andere Lobreden, 1987
- with Geisel, Eike: Premiere und Pogrom. Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933–1941. Texte und Bilder, Siedler, Berlin 1992 ISBN 3-88680-343-0
- Erbarmen mit den Deutschen, 1993
- Schöne Bescherung! Unterwegs im Neuen Deutschland, 1994
- Volk und Wahn, Goldmann, München 1996
- Die Juden von Mea Shearim, 1997
- Die Irren von Zion, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1998
- Jedem das Seine, Ölbaum Verlag 1999
- www.deutsche-leidkultur.de, Ölbaum Verlag 1999
- Kein Krieg, nirgends: Die Deutschen und der Terror, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002
- A Jew in the New Germany, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2003
- Hurra, wir kapitulieren - Von der Lust am Einknicken, wjs Verlag, 2006
[edit] Audio
- Ach So! Gad Granach und Henryk Broder on Tour CD, Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-927217-40-9
[edit] External links
- (German)Personal homepage
- Review: The last days of Europe, a lecture in Maastricht by Henryk Broder, 28 February 2007
[edit] References
- ^ [1] Broder about Antisemitism
- ^ Broders speech (in German)
- ^ FAZ: Broder receives Börne-Preis
- This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of June 20, 2006.
