Felix Rexhausen was a German

Germany

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 journalist, editor and author.

As a journalist, he wrote for Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Westdeutscher Rundfunk

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, and the magazines Die Zeit

Die Zeit

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 and Der Spiegel

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Personal

Rexhausen lived in Leipzig

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 and Hamburg

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 during his childhood. He studied Economics

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 at the University of Cologne

University of Cologne

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, where he finished 1959. He then worked as an editor for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne, and later was a journalist for Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit. Together with Carola Stern and Gerd Ruge

Gerd Ruge

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, Rexhausen founded the German chapter of Amnesty International

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 in 1961. After 1968, Rexhausen worked as an author in Hamburg, writing novels, satires and lyric poetry. One of his themes is homosexuality

Homosexuality

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. Rexhausen died on 6 February 1992 in Hamburg.

The German National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association has given an award for journalists who write on LGBT

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 topics since 1998. The name of the award is the Felix-Rexhausen-Award

Felix-Rexhausen-Award

The Felix-Rexhausen-Award were created 1998 by the Bund Lesbischer und Schwuler JournalistInnen to recognize and honor the mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives.The Felix-Rexhausen Award is presented...

 after Rexhausen, who was gay

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Works

• Der Unternehmer und die volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Berlin 1960.
• Die Finanzpublizität der Länder und Gemeinden, Berlin 1963.
• Mit Bayern leben, Offenbach am Main 1963.
• Der linkische und der Weg zum Rechts-Staat oder Wer zersetzt hier was?, Cologne 1965.
• Mit deutscher Tinte, Frankfurt a.M. 1965.
• Lavendelschwert, Frankfurt a.M. 1966.
• Gedichte an Bülbül, Stierstadt i.Ts. 1968.
• Die Sache, Frankfurt/M. 1968.
• Berührungen, Darmstadt, 1969 (under alias Stefan David).
• Seelenadel, Zweibrücken, 1969 (with Axel Hertenstein).
• Von großen Deutschen, Stierstadt i.Ts., 1969
• Germania unter der Gürtellinie, Bern, 1970
• Spukspaßspitzen, Pforzheim 1970, (with Axel Hertenstein)
• Wie es so geht, Düsseldorf, 1974
• So und so, Leverkusen, 1976
• 'In Harvestehude, Hamburg, 1979
• Die Lavendeltreppe, Düsseldorf, 1979
• Über Wahlkampf, Luzern, 1980
• Beste Fahrt!, Ottersberg, 1981
• Gesammelte Werke, Berlin
  • Band 1: Die Märchenklappe: allerlei Zwischenmännlichkeiten; Geschichten, Mären, Reime, 1982
• Der heutige Homosexuelle und Weihnachten, Kiel, 1987
• Die deutsche Weihnacht, Munich, 1989
• Wenn der Schafvogel schreit, Klagenfurt, 1999 (under alias Stefan David)