Klaus Harpprecht
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The writer and journalist Klaus Harpprecht accepted the Brothers Grimm Guest Professorship at the University of Kassel in 1990.
As a writer, a sophisticated journalist, an essayist and an academic author, Harpprecht is particularly suited to the program of this guest professorship.
He is also highly regarded in Kassel for his extensive biography of Georg Forster, to whom the University of Kassel feels a special affinity.
Image: Blue sofa, Berlin (Wikimedia Commons; CC BY 2.0)Klaus Harpprecht, born in Stuttgart on April 11, 1927, now lives in France. After completing his studies, he first worked as an editor at Christ und Welt, then at RIAS in Berlin. In the 1960s, he also turned to the medium of film and television, producing documentaries for WDR and finally going to the USA for ZDF, where he also wrote several books. He addressed contemporary history for television with series such as ZEUGEN DES JAHRHUNDERTS (D 1979-2004 and 2014-today) and DIALOG (D 1967-1970). He not only dedicated a sensational TV documentary to Willy Brandt in 1970, but also worked as an international advisor and ghostwriter during his chancellorship. From 1966/67, Harpprecht was publishing director of the S. Fischer publishing house and editor of the magazine Der Monat. From the 1970s onwards, he lived and worked in America again - with the exception of an interlude as editor-in-chief of GEO magazine - until he moved to France in 1982.
GPP event series with Klaus Harpprecht
Klaus Harpprecht began his series of Grimm Lectures with the question: "Are we a nation - should we be one?" "Thomas Mann and the Germans" was the general heading for Harpprecht's lectures, which were continued in detail: "Unpolitical-conservative: a German attitude?", "Attitude to life: chronic romanticism", "The suffering of reason", "The difficult love of the republic" and "No German Europe - a European Germany".