Queer Places:
Felix-Rexhausen-Platz, 50668 Köln, Germany
Felix Rexhausen (31 December 1932 – 6 February 1992) was a German journalist, editor and author. As a journalist, he wrote for Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and the magazines Die Zeit and Der Spiegel.
Rexhausen lived in Leipzig and Hamburg during his childhood. He studied Economics at the University of Cologne, 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, Rexhausen founded the German chapter of Amnesty International in 1961.[1] After 1968, Rexhausen worked as an author in Hamburg, writing novels, satires and lyric poetry. One of his themes is homosexuality. Rexhausen died on 6 February 1992 in Hamburg.[2] The German National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association[3] has given an award for journalists who write on LGBT topics since 1998. The name of the award is the Felix-Rexhausen-Award.[4]
On 27 March 2014, at the suggestion of the Association of Lesbian and Gay Journalists, the Cologne District Council of the City Centre decided to name a square at Cologne's main train station after Felix Rexhausen. [13]
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