Word: augstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. RUDOLF AUGSTEIN, 79, influential founder and publisher of the liberal, often combative postwar German newsweekly Der Spiegel, which quickly moved away from Nazi-era press restrictions to champion tough investigative journalism; of pneumonia; in Hamburg. Augstein went to prison for treason in 1962 in what became known as the Spiegel Affair: after the magazine published an article critical of NATO, police arrested journalists, an act that drew international scorn and helped lead to the downfall of West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
...Rudolf Augstein...
...publications on the left enjoy exceptional prestige. Clearly the most powerful is Spiegel, though it is also widely disliked for its unpleasantly dogmatic style. Its founder and publisher, Rudolf Augstein, 59, stridently argues that U.S. and West German interests inevitably are in conflict, particularly on the reunification of Germany. The weekly is by West German standards an enterprising investigative publication, and its ideology has not kept it from publishing stories that embarrass the Social Democrats. Last year Spiegel exposed payoffs to politicians, including SPD leaders, in exchange for tax breaks for the giant Flick conglomerate. More important, Spiegel...
Jesus Son of Man, by Rudolf Augstein (Urizen; 408 pages; $12.95). Founder and publisher of Der Spiegel, the West German weekly newsmagazine, Agnostic Augstein is an angry product of Catholic schooling. He asks how the church "dares to appeal to a Jesus who never existed, to teachings he never taught, to a mandate he never issued, and to a claim that he was God's son which he never presumed for himself." When it came out in Germany in 1972, the book was attacked by Christian thinkers of all varieties; Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner condemned it as a "frontal...
...latest demands have been heard at Der Spiegel, West Germany's influential weekly newsmagazine. Publisher Rudolf Augstein, 46, himself a liberal, has responded by offering his employees 50% of Spiegel's ownership and profits and something of a voice in its management. By so doing, he may spare Spiegel the uproar that the movement has caused at three other major publications, the French dailies Figaro and Le Monde and the LIFE-like German magazine Der Stern...