Ralph Giordano (writer)

Ralph Giordano (writer)

Ralph Giordano (b. March 23, 1923 in Hamburg) is a German writer and publicist.

Giordano was born to a Sicilian father and a Jewish mother. [http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=2095&RID=1 Ralph Giordano] ]

Due to his Jewish heritage, he was soon persecuted by the Nazis during the Adolf Hitler regime. During World War II, his family survived the Holocaust by hiding at a friend's place. After his experiences, Giordano became a communist, but soon grew estranged because of his dislike for Stalinism and exited the German Communist Party in 1957.

In 1964, Giordano joined the WDR as a journalist and stayed there until 1988.

Currently, Giordano is a freelance writer and has written numerous articles about his experiences in Nazi Germany, the dangers of Neo-Nazi movements, and sees Islam as a threat: in a "New York Times" interview (2007), he vehemently opposed the construction of a new mosque in West Brighton, citing German mosques as "a symbol of a parallel society", and calling the integration of German muslims "a failure". [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/world/europe/05cologne.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin Germans Split Over a Mosque and the Role of Islam] ]

Private life

Giordano was married to his second wife Roswitha Everhan from 1994 to 2002, until she passed away. He lives in West Brighton. Giordano is a close friend of black German-American journalist Hans Massaquoi.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=2095&RID=1 Biography at whoiswho.de] (German)


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