Roger Willemsen

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Roger Willemsen


Born
in Bonn, Germany
August 15, 1955

Died
February 07, 2016

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Roger Willemsen was a German author, journalist, TV presenter, and public intellectual.

He studied German philology (Germanistik), philosophy and history of art in Bonn, Munich and Vienna and was awarded a scholarship by the Evangelisches Studienwerk. He did his postgraduate studies on Robert Musil and received his PhD.

Willemsen started his TV career in 1991 as head interviewer at "0137", a daily talkshow and signature programme at newly founded German pay-TV Premiere. He performed about 1.000 interviews, including some with imprisoned members of the Red Army Faction, a fugitive bank robber, a leftover cosmonaut in space station MIR and a cannibal. He also interviewed Audrey Hepburn, Jesse Jackson, Yasser Arafat, Lech Wałęsa, Dame Edna Evera
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Wer wir waren

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Das Hohe Haus. Ein Jahr im ...

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Die Enden der Welt

3.84 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions
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Deutschlandreise

3.26 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions
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Der Knacks

3.76 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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Afghanische Reise

3.92 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions
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Momentum

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Kleine Lichter

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Bangkok Noir

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Hier spricht Guantánamo

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“Wir waren jene, die wussten, aber nicht verstanden, voller Informationen, aber ohne Erkenntnis, randvoll mit Wissen, aber mager an Erfahrung. So gingen wir, von uns selbst nicht aufgehalten.”
Roger Willemsen, Wer wir waren

“Dass wir nicht mehr können, erliegen, dass wir unrettbar sind, in der Kapitulation leben, das sagten wir nicht, wir fühlten es bloß.”
Roger Willemsen, Wer wir waren

“Was soll denn an dieser Behinderung Besonderes sein? Raúl Krauthausen ist einfach ein sehr beeindruckender Mensch mit starken Gaben. Er hat viel zu sagen und sich über seinen Rollstuhl schon lange erhoben.”
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