Hugo Thielen

Hugo Thielen
Thielen in 2013
Born1946 (age 79–80)
EducationUniversity of Bonn
Occupations
  • Author
  • Editor
Organizations
  • Schroedel Verlag
  • Zu Klampen Verlag
  • Lutherisches Verlagshaus

Hugo Thielen (born 1946) is a German freelance author and editor, who is focused on the history of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, in a lexicon of the city, another one especially of its art and culture, and a third of biographies. He co-authored a book about Jewish personalities in Hanover's history.

Life

Thielen studied German language and literature, philosophy and education at the University of Bonn from 1966, completing with the Staatsexamen in 1971.: ii  He has lived in Hanover from 1973, working as editor and author for various publishing houses.: ii  He worked for Schroedel Verlag, [de] a publisher mainly of school readers, until 1981, for the Th. Schäfer Verlag until 1995, also for the Postskriptum Verlag, for Hirschgraben, a publisher of school readers in Frankfurt am Main, for Zu Klampen Verlag [de] in Lüneburg and Springe, and for Lutherisches Verlagshaus. [de] From 1983 to 1995 he was a freelance music critic for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. He is[as of?] head of a Verlagsbüro, an office for freelance writers.

Publications

Hugo Thielen (fourth from left at the table) at the presentation of the book about Jewish personalities in 2013

Thielen is co-author (besides Helmut Knocke) of Hanover: Art and Cultural Lexicon, [de] a lexicon of Hanover's art and culture, published in 1994 by Zu Klampen Verlag, with a 4th edition in 2007. He is co-editor, author and designer of the 2002 Hanover Biographic Lexicon, [de], and of the Hanover City Lexicon. [de]

First in 1998, Thielen and Waldemar R. Röhrbein, the retired director of the Historisches Museum Hannover, wrote the book Jewish Personalities in Hanover's History (Jüdische Persönlichkeiten in Hannovers Geschichte). It is organised as a history of the city, beginning in 1303, with a focus on the contributions of Jewish personalities, rather than individual biographies. Around a hundred persons are described in some detail, including the principal violinist of the court orchestra, Joseph Joachim. A second edition, completely revised by Thielen, appeared in 2013, in memory of the November pogroms 75 years earlier.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Autor / Hugo Thielen". Zu Klampen Verlag [de] (in German). Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 van den Heuvel, Gerd; Knocke, Helmut; Karl-Friedrich Oppermann; et al. (2002). Böttcher, Dirk; Mlynek, Klaus; Waldemar R. Röhrbein; Hugo Thielen (eds.). Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon: Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart (in German). Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-87706-706-2. LCCN 2002550672. OCLC 231977507. OL 3663458M. Wikidata Q1301650. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen  (help)
  3. 1 2 3 4 Benne, Simon (22 October 2013). ""Jüdische Persönlichkeiten in Hannovers Geschichte" / Vom Geiger bis zum Eisenbahnkönig". HAZ (in German). ISBN 978-3-87-706706-2. Archived from the original on 23 July 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. 1 2 3 Schreiber, Klaus. "Jüdische Persönlichkeiten in Hannovers Geschichte" (PDF). ifb.bsz-bw.de (in German). Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  5. ↑ Hannover - Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon : Handbuch und Stadtführer on WorldCat
  6. ↑ Hannoversches biographisches Lexikon : von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart on WorldCat
  7. ↑ Jüdische Persönlichkeiten in Hannovers Geschichte on WorldCat