Klaus Hartung

Klaus Hartung spent his school years in the German Democratic Republic before fleeing to West Germany in 1955. He studied in Bonn and Berlin and graduated with a degree in sociology. Hartung has worked as an editorial consultant, architectural historian, journalist, and university professor, and is on the staff of the German daily newspaper Ta (Tageszeitung), the East Berlin weekly Wochenpost, and Zeit in Berlin. He publishes essays on politics, social reform, urban planning, and contemporary...See more

Klaus Hartung spent his school years in the German Democratic Republic before fleeing to West Germany in 1955. He studied in Bonn and Berlin and graduated with a degree in sociology. Hartung has worked as an editorial consultant, architectural historian, journalist, and university professor, and is on the staff of the German daily newspaper Ta (Tageszeitung), the East Berlin weekly Wochenpost, and Zeit in Berlin. He publishes essays on politics, social reform, urban planning, and contemporary art; books on comic strips, Italian psychiatric reform, and the so-called "peaceful revolution" and reunification of Germany. See less