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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
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Hugo Thielen (born 1946) [1] is a German freelance author and editor, who is focused on the history of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, in a lexicon of the city, another one especially of its art and culture, and a third of biographies. He co-authored a book about Jewish personalities in Hanover's history.
Thielen studied German language and literature, philosophy and education at the University of Bonn from 1966, completing with the Staatsexamen in 1971. [2] : ii He has lived in Hanover from 1973, working as editor and author for various publishing houses. [2] : ii He worked for Schroedel Verlag, [ de ] a publisher mainly of school readers, until 1981, for the Th. Schäfer Verlag until 1995, also for the Postskriptum Verlag, for Hirschgraben, a publisher of school readers in Frankfurt am Main, for Zu Klampen Verlag in Lüneburg and Springe, [1] and for Lutherisches Verlagshaus. [ de ] From 1983 to 1995 he was a freelance music critic for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . He is[ as of? ] head of a Verlagsbüro, an office for freelance writers. [1]
Thielen is co-author (besides Helmut Knocke) of Hanover: Art and Cultural Lexicon, [ de ] a lexicon of Hanover's art and culture, [2] published in 1994 by Zu Klampen Verlag, [1] with a 4th edition in 2007. He is co-editor, author and designer of the 2002 Hanover Biographic Lexicon, [ de ], and of the Hanover City Lexicon. [ de ] [1]
First in 1998, Thielen and Waldemar R. Röhrbein, the retired director of the Historisches Museum Hannover, [3] wrote the book Jewish Personalities in Hanover's History (Jüdische Persönlichkeiten in Hannovers Geschichte). It is organised as a history of the city, beginning in 1303, [3] with a focus on the contributions of Jewish personalities, rather than individual biographies. Around a hundred persons are described in some detail, [4] including the principal violinist of the court orchestra, Joseph Joachim. [3] A second edition, completely revised by Thielen, appeared in 2013, in memory of the November pogroms 75 years earlier. [4] [3]
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