Elmar Kraushaar (born 11 August 1950) is a German journalist and author [1] who lives in Berlin.
Kraushaar was born in Niederurff in northern Hesse. He studied from 1971 to 1979 in Berlin at Free University of Berlin. In the 1970s, during his university studies, he joined the gay organisation Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin.
As author Kraushaar began to write on LGBT topics, including some works with Matthias Frings.
Kraushaar has worked as a journalist for Germany's longest running LGBT periodical Siegessäule out of Berlin, for the newspaper die tageszeitung (taz), and for Der Spiegel. In 1990 Kraushaar became a journalist for RIAS TV, then worked at Deutsche Welle. His column Der homosexuelle Mann... [2] has run in taz since 1995.
Stefan Aust is a German journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel from 1994 to February 2008 and has been the publisher of the conservative leading Die Welt newspaper since 2014 and the paper's editor until December 2016.
Wieland Speck (* 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau is a German film director, who since 1992 has coordinated "Panorama" at the International Filmfestival Berlin. Panorama showcases new films by established directors, as well as debut works by up-and-coming talents.
The Felix-Rexhausen Award were created 1998 by the Bund Lesbischer und Schwuler JournalistInnen to recognize and honor the mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives.
Martin Dannecker is a German sexologist and author.
Wolfgang Kraushaar is a political scientist and historian. After a residency at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung from the 1980s until 2015. In 2015 he continued his research at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture also in Hamburg, Germany.
Michael Bochow is a German sociologist who has authored a number of empirical studies of German gay men with a particular focus on the impact of HIV/AIDS.
Hans-Georg Stümke was a German gay activist, author, and historian.
Axel Schock is a German journalist and author.
The Schwules Museum in Berlin, Germany, is a museum and research centre with collections focusing on LGBTQ+ history and culture. It opened in 1985 and it was the first museum in the world dedicated to gay history.
Wolf Dietrich Schneider was a German journalist, author, and language critic. After World War II, he learned journalism on the job with Die Neue Zeitung, a newspaper published by the US military government. He later worked as a correspondent in Washington for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, then as editor-in-chief and from 1969 manager of the publishing house of Stern. He moved to the Springer Press in 1971. From 1979 to 1995, he was the first director of a school for journalists in Hamburg, shaping generations of journalists. He wrote many publications about the German language, becoming an authority. He promoted a concise style, and opposed anglicisms and the German orthography reform.
Daniela Dahn is a German writer, journalist and essayist. Since the reunification of Germany in 1990, Dahn has been an outspoken critic of the reunification process. Her highly personal style of writing, and her strident political opinions, have stirred controversy within Germany, but Dahn, who considered herself a dissident within East Germany before 1989, advocates for a critical journalism that continues the democratic tradition of challenging the government and policies of reunified Germany.
Detlef Grumbach is a German author and journalist.
Manuela Kay is a German journalist, author and publisher.
Matthias Frings is a German journalist, TV presenter and writer. He was born in Aachen and spent his childhood there. He pursued English studies, German studies and linguistics at RWTH Aachen University. In 1974, Frings was a founding member of the gay student group Aachener Printenschwestern. After completing his university studies, Frings became a resident of Berlin. In the late 1970s, he was a member of theater group Zan Pollo.
Centrum Schwule Geschichte e. V., abbreviated CSG, is a German "LGBTQ" organization based in Cologne (Köln).
Matthias T. J. Grimme, stage name Tatsu Otoko, is a German author, publisher of sadomasochistic literature and magazines, a photographer and a rope artist in Japanese style bondage.
Fritz Joachim Raddatz was a German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer, journalist and romancier.
The Akademie Waldschlösschen is an education and conference center near Reinhausen in Lower Saxony, between Göttingen and Heiligenstadt.
Martin Geck was a German musicologist. He taught at the Technical University of Dortmund. His publications concerned a number of major composers. Among the composers in whom he specialised was Johann Sebastian Bach.
Richard Christian Carl Linsert was a German sexologist, psychologist and activist.