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Hans Halter (born April 8 , 1938 in Muskau ) is a German medical journalist and author .

Life [ Edit | Edit source code ]

Hans Halter studied medicine and is a licensed specialist in skin and sexually transmitted diseases . During his time as a medical student in Berlin, he worked as an escape assistant for months after the Wall was built in 1961 , as only became known in 2011 through an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . [1] After working as a doctor for a while, he went into journalism in 1972. He worked as a reporter for Der Spiegel for more than 30 years and worked mainly on medical topics. In 1982 he was the first German-speaking journalist to report on the immunodeficiency disease AIDS . [2]

After 1983, a long-term, sometimes controversial discussion about AIDS developed. [3] Halter was of the opinion that AIDS is a deadly infectious disease whose “engine” is “promiscuity”. [4] In 1986, Halter was the first in the world to report on the decoding of the AIDS pathogen. [5] He also published in the scientific journal AIDS Research on the situation of infected hemophiliacs [6] and gave extensive interviews to several gay scene magazines, such as the Berlin Victory Column . [7]

He was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 1983 for his surgical report The Donor Heart Must Not Die in Spiegel . [8] Halter is the author and editor of around twenty books (selection under Works ). He now lives in Berlin and works as a freelance author.

Award and controversy [ edit | Edit source code ]

Three decades after the AIDS controversy of the 1980s, in 2013, the Gay Network NRW e. V. the editorial team of the news magazine Der Spiegel , which has helped shape the discourse “for many decades” with “people-affirming reporting on homosexuality that is appropriate to the times,” with the compass needle . [9] By awarding the compass needle , the association has been honoring personalities or institutions since 2001 who have “made a special contribution to promoting social acceptance of gays and lesbians.” [10]

The Spiegel award from the Gay Network NRW was met with a response from Deutsche Aidshilfe e. V. on criticism. In January 2013, the association published a statement on its website in which it distanced itself from the award ceremony and criticized the "unspeakable reporting by 'SPIEGEL' at the height of the AIDS crisis". The Spiegel had “promoted the worst resentment against gay men”, in particular Hans Halter had “at regular intervals painted the picture of the promiscuous gay man” who “satisfies his instincts without regard for his own health”. [11]

The Gay Network NRW responded in March 2013 with a statement that the criticism expressed about the Spiegel award was “not unexpected”. That's why the press release for the award ceremony already contained a reference to the "learning process" of Spiegel itself, which began with "not always appropriate" treatment of gay men. [12] Department head Markus Verbeet accepted the compass needle on July 6, 2013, on behalf of the editorial teams of Spiegel and Spiegel online . [13]

Works [ edit | Edit source code ]

As a Spiegel reporter (the relevant AIDS articles from the 1980s):

  • Terror from over there . In: The Mirror . No. 22, 1982, S. 187–189 ( online - May 31, 1982 , The first publication about AIDS in Germany, before the disease was identified as AIDS - the term AIDS does not yet appear in the article).
  • The sadness increases. Reactions of the Berlin homosexual scene to AIDS . In: The Mirror . No. 23, 1983, S. 156 f . ( online - June 6, 1983 , The first Spiegel cover story Deadly plague AIDS. The mysterious disease).
  • “I’m en Tunt, I’m perfectly healthy.” SPIEGEL reporter Hans Halter on the fear of homosexuals about the AIDS epidemic . In: The Mirror . No. 29, 1984, S. 130–134 ( online – 16 July 1984 ).
  • AIDS: “The bomb has been planted” . In: The Mirror . No. 45, 1984, S. 100–114 (online – 5. November 1984).
  • with Wolfgang Sternsdorff: SPIEGEL conversation “Five years in quarantine?” Professor Manfred Steinbach on epidemic police measures against the spread of AIDS . In: The Mirror . No. 52, 1984, S. 28–32 ( online – December 24, 1984 ).
  • House announcement – ​​Subject: Title . In: The Mirror . No. 52, 1985, S. 3 ( online - August 12, 1985 , The in-house announcement is about the second Spiegel cover story AIDS and love, which was supervised by Hans Halter. What risk? and deals with allegations made ("scaremongering, promotion of prejudices, aiding and abetting new persecution of a person again and again persecuted minority - SPIEGEL was accused of all this when it dealt with the topic of AIDS in several articles in 1983 and 1984") and rejects them).
  • “We have to take the rocky road.” SPIEGEL reporter Hans Halter on AIDS virus research in Germany . In: The Mirror . No. 18, 1986, S. 213–237 ( online - April 28, 1986 , The article is part of the third Spiegel cover story AIDS. The unraveled virus - race for the vaccine and reports for the first time about a vaccine against AIDS).

As a book author (selection):

  • I've done my thing here - lives and last words of famous women and men. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-8270-0697-X .
  • War of the jugglers – the failure of the German secret services. Steidl-Verlag, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-88243-246-2 .
  • Your rights as a patient – ​​fundamental judgments, case studies, legal recourse, self-help groups. Econ, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-612-21200-1 .
  • The big ADAC health book . ADAC-Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-87003-202-2 . (Also published as The Big Health Book . Orbis-Verlag, Munich 1991.)

As editor:

  • Deadly epidemic AIDS . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-499-33067-9 .
  • Be careful, doctor! – the crisis of modern medicine, together with Klaus Franke, Gisela Oehlert, and Jürgen-Peter Stössel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-33010-5 .

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Individual evidence [ Edit | Edit source code ]

  1. ↑ Crossing all borders in the Cadillac . Review by Hans Halter about Burkart Veigel's escape aid book Paths through the Wall , published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 227 of October 1, 2011, page 12. Below the review is the editorial addition: “The journalist Hans Halter lives in Berlin and has At that time he acted as an escape helper himself.”
  2. ↑ Jochen Bölsche: Editorial. In: Der Spiegel Special 07/1996. July 1, 1996, p. 3 , formerly in the original (no longer available online) ; accessed February 23, 2020 . ( Page no longer available . Search in web archives )
  3. ↑ Rearview mirror . In: The Mirror . No. 3, 1986, S. 194 ( online – 13 January 1986 ).
  4. ↑ The engine of the epidemic. A conversation with Hans Halter . In: Victory Column . AIDS special issue, December 1985, p. 34.
  5. ↑ Re: Title “AIDS – The Unraveled Virus. Race for the vaccine" . In: The Mirror . No. 18, 1986, S. 3 (online – 28. April 1986).
  6. ↑ Hans Halter: “The injustice that happens to one individual is a threat to everyone.” On the situation of HIV-infected hemophiliacs in France and Germany . In: AIDS Research (AIFO), Issue 2, February 1993, pp. 62–64.
  7. ↑ The engine of the epidemic. A conversation with Hans Halter . In: Victory Column . AIDS special issue, December 1985, pp. 33–34.
  8. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: 1977–2004: All prize winners at a glance. In: stern.de . July 1, 2003, accessed June 18, 2021 .
  9. ↑ Gay Network NRW: The winners of the Compass Needle 2013 . In: gayes-netzwerk.de.
  10. ↑ Gay Network NRW: Compass needle . In: gayes-netzwerk.de.
  11. ↑ Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe criticizes SPIEGEL's acceptance award. In: German Aids Aid. January 28, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Statement on the criticism of SPIEGEL as the winner of the Compass Needle 2013 . Statement by the Gay Network NRW from March 14, 2013. In: meines-netzwerk.de.
  13. ↑ “We are ready to talk” . Dr. Markus Verbeet in conversation with the Gay Network NRW. In: gayes-netzwerk.de.
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