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Wolf Stegemann (born 2 October 1944, modern-day Cheb, Czech Republic) is a German journalist, author, and poet.
Life
After finishing school in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and being a Volontariat in Nuremberg and Munich, Stegemann worked as a journalist in Athens and Istanbul for the Deutsche Presse-Agentur between 1970 and 1971 and as a freelance court reporters in Munich. From 1972 to 1975, he was a book editor in Bad Reichenhall, publishing the multi-volume series Sakrale Kunst in Bayern. From 1975 to 1980, he was an art editor in Gelsenkirchen in Dorsten (Ruhr Nachrichten) from 1981 to 1998.
He published, in 1972 and 1978, two volumes of poetry and short prose, and in the 1978 edition of the Gelsenkirchen magazine for literature and art sites in free association with Joseph Beuys, Jürgen Völkert-Marten, Klaus-Peter Wolf, and Michael Klaus and was a member of the jury of the Gelsenkirchen Art Prize, along with Heiner Jahn and Jörg Loskill. He published the Stadtansichten Gelsenkirchen. Von Menschen, Musen und Maloche.
Together with Dirk Hartwich, Stegemann founded a Dorsten-based research group which explored the Nazi period in the region. This group, along with other contributors, released a series of books from 1983 to 1987. In 1987, he was creative director and co-founder of the Jewish Museum of Westphalia in Dorsten and, in 1992, part of the German-Israeli Friends of Dorsten-Hod Hasharon. Stegemann received a lifetime achievement in 2005 by the abc Society for the Advancement of learning to read and write in the 3rd World eV the award of Change. Since 1970 his publications in have reached German-language magazines in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Israel, USA, and on the radio at WDR, ZDF, Deutschland Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Südwestfunk, Österreichischer Rundfunk, and Deutsche Welle. He resides in Dorsten.