Hermann Ludwig Gremliza (20 November 1940 – 20 December 2019) was a German
radical left journalist.
Gremliza was born in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
. In the 1960s he studied in
Tübingen. He learned the profession working at ''
Der Spiegel
''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner ...
'', and after 1974 Gremliza become editor-in-chief of the radical left-wing magazine ''
konkret
''konkret'' has been the name of two German magazines.
''konkret'' was originally the name of a magazine established by Klaus Rainer Röhl in 1957, that was an influential magazine on the German political left in the 1960s. The magazine was di ...
''.
In 1987, he contended that he was a
ghostwriter for the investigative journalist
Günter Wallraff. Wallraff impugned the accusations.
In 1989, he left the
Social Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
Active parties
For ...
because of its support of
German reunification
German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...
. He died in
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
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, aged 79.
Works (selection)
* 1987 – Betrug dankend erhalten –
* 1991 – Krautland einig Vaterland –
* 1997 – Wie Hannelore Kohl die Russen bezauberte –
* 1997 – Vorwärts. Nieder. Hoch. Nie wieder. Vierzig Jahre Konkret. Eine linke deutsche Geschichte 1957–1997 –
* 2000 – Gegen Deutschland: 48 Nestbeschmutzungen –
References
External links
konkret– online edition
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1940 births
2019 deaths
Writers from Cologne
German atheists
German journalists
German male journalists
20th-century German journalists
21st-century German journalists
German male writers
Der Spiegel people