Sabina Lietzmann

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Signature of Sabina Lietzmann in an edited copy of her book

Sabina Lietzmann (born December 5, 1919 in Jena ; † May 29, 1995 in West Cornwall , Connecticut ) was a German journalist . From 1961 to 1984 she was a correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in New York .

Life

Sabina Lietzmann was born in Jena in 1919 as the daughter of the Protestant church historian Hans Lietzmann , but grew up in Berlin from the age of five . After graduating from high school, she began to study medieval and modern history, German, Arabic and archeology in Tübingen . In 1944 she received her doctorate in medieval history from the historian Friedrich Baethgen in Berlin . After her doctorate as Dr. phil. Lietzmann worked as a dramaturge, translator and director. In addition to her work as a teacher at a drama school, she worked as a freelance journalist and editor-in-chief of a magazine for theater, radio and film. Since the founding of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1949 - one of the founders was her brother-in-law Karl Korn - Lietzmann was its Berlin correspondent, from 1961 until she retired in 1984 she worked as a cultural correspondent from New York for the FAZ and traveled extensively through the American continent.

Lietzmann was particularly interested in political and feature journalism. It dealt with the problems of the black population and the advance of American women. The former editor of the FAZ , Hugo Müller-Vogg , wrote that Lietzmann's success was based on her "humorous nature and Berlin's will to assert herself". Her former colleague Wilfried Wiegand wrote in his obituary:

"It was unmistakably a woman from Berlin who was allowed to treat the world capital New York in a loving and ironic way, because there she had found the pace and noise, misery and sentimentality from the city of her youth."

- Wilfried Wiegand
Grave of Sabina Lietzmann in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

Sabina Lietzmann wrote two books about her observations in New York and the USA. She is also the author of a chicken cookbook.

Lietzmann retired from journalism and lived in her small country house in West Cornwall, Connecticut. She came to Berlin again for her 70th birthday, and celebrated her 75th birthday in her home in Connecticut. There she died of cancer six months later. Lietzmann found her final resting place in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin. Former Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütz and former Bonn government spokesman Dieter Vogel also appeared at the funeral service .

Awards

  • Media award of the Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft, 1995

Publications

  • Kingship and imperial episcopate from the Worms Concordat to Barbarossa (1122-1152) . (1944)
  • New York. The wonderful disaster . Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg (1976), ISBN 3-455-08966-6
  • International chicken dishes. 150 chicken recipes . Heyne Verlag (1983), ISBN 3-453-40363-0
  • The American dilemma, reports from 25 years . Gustav Luebbe Verlag (1989), ISBN 3-404-60236-6
  • As an introduction to Willa Cather's life and work . Knaus Verlag (1988), ISBN 3-8135-3418-9
  • A chicken in every pot . Ullstein Verlag (1992), ISBN 3-548-34857-2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries: Sabina Lietzmann; German journalist, 75 . In: New York Times , May 31, 1995
  2. ↑ The editors introduce themselves . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 9, 1991, p. 8.
    Wilfried Wiegand: Sabina Lietzmann 70 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 5, 1989, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Sabina Lietzmann died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 31, 1995, p. 1.
  4. ↑ a b Berlin on the East River. On the death of Sabina Lietzmann . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 31, 1995, p. 5.
  5. ^ Solemn burial in Berlin . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 7, 1995, p. 29.
  6. ↑ List of previous winners
  7. ↑ DNB dataset
personal data
SURNAME Lietzmann, Sabina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1995
Place of death West Cornwall, Connecticut