Klaus Hansen was born in 1948 in the German-Luxembourg border region.
Studied philosophy, psychology, journalism, and ethnology. 1977 Dr. Phil. at the University of Münster (dissertation: “Technocracy and Communication”, Frankfurt/M. 1978). Lecturer and director of a political academy in the Bergisches Land region; government director in Bonn; professor of politics and communication at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. Lectureships at the universities of Cologne and Siegen.
Numerous academic and fiction publications, most recently soccer literature books with a bibliophile claim to beauty.