Jurgen Hesse

Jurgen Hesse

Postby Karin Leslie » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:37 am

I recently learned of Jurgen Hesse's passing. Looking for friend's of Hesse's.

We were correspondents for the last five years, I would like to connect with Don or Jon Boyd (who is in Mexico sans computer) or other friends of Jurgen's. If anyone has an address for his wife, Maria Elena I would appreciate it - I only have the Vancouver apartment and would like to send condolences and check on her wellbeing. I expect that she's returned to her family in Mexico.

Jurgen was a friend, a mentor and pushed me when I needed prodding, I miss him and being able to fire any philosophical question his way for discussion and/or clarification.

RIP, Jurgen

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Postby Jack Bennest » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:34 am

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A bio by friend Don Mowat

Jurgen Hesse, eclectic prize-winning radio journalist and author,died on
July 30th of complications related to renal failure. He had been on kidney
dialysis for several years. He was 84. Born in Germany in 1924, he emigrated
to Canada in 1958 and worked as a columnist and reporter for The Toronto
Globe and Mail, The Victoria Daily Colonist and The Vancouver Sun before
coming to CBC Radio in Vancouver. At the CBC, he was a freelance writer,
interviewer and producer for Ideas, CBC Monday Evening, The Hornby
Collection and his own series Identities. His documentaries won many awards
including an ACTRA Nellie, a Wilbur Religious Affairs Award and a New York
Audio Arts Festival award. After leaving the CBC in the late 1980s, he
continued writing and publishing, creating over two dozen books on various
topics from Immigrant Writers to Health Management as well as two novels and
several radio plays.

I began working with Jurgen in 1971 and had the task of turning an
accomplished print journalist into a radio documentarian, who developed such
a flair for the medium and a master of its technology that keeping pace with
him was a full-time occupation. Together we travelled throughout BC, the
U.S., France, Germany, the Channel Islands, Switzerland, The Balkans,
Bulgaria and Turkey, making programs on Mad King Ludwig, Martin Luther,
Victor Hugo,the last run of The Orient Express, Leon Trotzky, Peasants and
the Book of Genesis.

After I retired from the Corporation in 1997, we continued working together
on radio projects and publishing ventures, and he produced a dozen or more
remarkable short features on his declining health for the series Out Front,
originating in CBC Toronto.
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Re: Jurgen Hesse

Postby Karin Leslie » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:17 am

[quote="Karin Leslie"]I recently learned of Jurgen Hesse's passing. Looking for friend's of Hesse's.

We were correspondents for the last five years, I would like to connect with Don or Jon Boyd (who is in Mexico sans computer) or other friends of Jurgen's. If anyone has an address for his wife, Maria Elena I would appreciate it - I only have the Vancouver apartment and would like to send condolences and check on her wellbeing. I expect that she's returned to her family in Mexico.

Jurgen was a friend, a mentor and pushed me when I needed prodding, I miss him and being able to fire any philosophical question his way for discussion and/or clarification.

RIP, Jurgen

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Postby Jack Bennest » Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:19 am

Hi, Jack.

I've sent a message to Don Mowatt asking permission to pass along his contact info and asking if he can provide same for Jurgen Hesse's family. I have also given Don your e-mail address in case he would prefer getting in touch with you directly.

I'll let you know as soon as I hear from Don.

Cheers,

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Jurgen Hesse

Postby Karin Leslie » Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:39 am

Thank you Top Dog,

Don Mowat contacted me and was able to answer many of the questions I had. I really appreciate your efforts, today I have a sense of peace and closure.

A taste of fall is in the air this morning, following a walk in the woods I lit a fire in the woodstove to ward off the dampness and chill. If I have to live my life in the east, this place is as close to perfection as possible.

This summer I discovered the world beneath the earth and am hooked on diving. These crystaline waters are wonderous and now I can view, the Niagara Escarpment it's fascinating geology, fromunder the water as well as from the cliffs. Soon the tourists go home and life returns from 300,000 visitors (Parks Canada) to the permanate population of 500 +/-.

Soon there will be time for the writers, artists, ecologists...to meet and work until another tourist season begins.

I found your post on terrorism very interesting, I'm in agreement with your anaylisis. Why don't the powers-that-be, primarily the bully to our south, realize that it's time to stay home and put their own house in order? Perhaps, the impending "financial crisis" will force US to examine the roots of the problem, on their own soil. Years of military spending, in the name of fighting terrorism, has taken it's toll on the US ecomony. I watch this unfold with some cynicism, it's common knowledge that in an economic crunch, people vote conservatively - I don't think the Republican Party is ready to retire yet.

Yes, I'm an ex-patriot.

Karin

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