Felix Rexhausen (31 December 1932 – 6 February 1992) was a German journalist, editor and author. As a journalist, he wrote for ''

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'', ''

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'', and the magazines ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Biography

Rexhausen lived in

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and

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during his childhood. He studied

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at the

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, where he finished 1959. He then worked as an editor for the ''Westdeutscher Rundfunk'' in Cologne, and later was a journalist for ''Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger'', ''Der Spiegel'' and ''Die Zeit''. Together with

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and

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, Rexhausen founded the German chapter of

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in 1961. After 1968, Rexhausen worked as an author in Hamburg, writing novels, satires and lyric poetry. One of his themes is

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. Rexhausen died on 6 February 1992 in Hamburg. The German National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association has given an award for journalists who write on

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topics since 1998. The name of the award is the Felix-Rexhausen-Award after Rexhausen, who was

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...

Works

The literary scholar Benedikt Wolf has compiled a comprehensive bibliography of Rexhausen's works. It contains 398 works by Felix Rexhausen as well as sources of secondary literature. *''Der Unternehmer und die volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung'', Berlin 1960. *''Die Finanzpublizität der Länder und Gemeinden'', Berlin 1963. *''Mit Bayern leben'', Offenbach am Main 1963. *''Der linkische und der Weg zum Rechts-Staat oder Wer zersetzt hier was?'', Cologne 1965. *''Mit deutscher Tinte'', Frankfurt a.M. 1965. *''Lavendelschwert'', Frankfurt a.M. 1966. *''Gedichte an Bülbül'', Stierstadt i.Ts. 1968. *''Die Sache'', Frankfurt/M. 1968. *''Berührungen'', Darmstadt, 1969 (under alias Stefan David). *''Seelenadel'', Zweibrücken, 1969 (with Axel Hertenstein). *''Von großen Deutschen'', Stierstadt i.Ts., 1969 *''Germania unter der Gürtellinie'', Bern, 1970 *''Spukspaßspitzen'', Pforzheim 1970, (with Axel Hertenstein) *''Wie es so geht'', Düsseldorf, 1974 *''So und so'', Leverkusen, 1976 *In Harvestehude'', Hamburg, 1979 *''Die Lavendeltreppe'', Düsseldorf, 1979 *''Über Wahlkampf'', Luzern, 1980 *''Beste Fahrt!'', Ottersberg, 1981 *''Gesammelte Werke'', Berlin **Band 1: Die Märchenklappe: allerlei Zwischenmännlichkeiten; Geschichten, Mären, Reime, 1982 *''Der heutige Homosexuelle und Weihnachten'', Kiel, 1987 *''Die deutsche Weihnacht'', Munich, 1989 *''Zaunwerk. Szenen aus dem Gesträuch''. Edited from the estate by Benedikt Wolf. Berlin 2021 (Typescript finished in 1964)

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