Alberto Dines

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Alberto Dines (2008)

Alberto Dines (born February 19, 1932 in Rio de Janeiro ; † May 22, 2018 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian journalist and author .

Life

General

In his more than 50-year career, Dines wrote several books, founded various magazines and newspapers in Brazil and Portugal , worked for radio and television and acted as a critical observer of the mass media and its representatives. He started working as a journalist in 1952; from 1963 he taught journalism at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and in 1974 he was visiting professor at the Journalism School of the University of Columbia , New York City . For 12 years he was editor-in-chief of Jornal do Brasil and director of the Folha de São Paulo branch in Rio de Janeiro . In Portugal he founded the group "Abril", with which he published the magazine Exame .

Most recently, he was a senior researcher at the Laboratório de Estudos Avançados em Jornalismo of the Unicamp, of which he was co-founder, and directed the magazine Observatório da Imprensa, both in its online version and as a television and radio program . As president of the Casa Stefan Zweig Society, Dines was also committed to the opening of a Stefan Zweig Museum in Petrópolis . He was a proven Stefan Zweig researcher and in his biography Death in Paradise - The Tragedy of Stefan Zweig described the time Stefan Zweig spent in Brazil until his suicide.

Childhood and youth

Alberto Dines in 1932 in the district of Catete in Rio de Janeiro into a family of Jewish born immigrants from Russia. His parents lived there in a pension. He grew up in Vila Isabel near the Maracanã , but later changed his place of residence frequently. He lived on Rua Pontes Correira, Rua Araújo Lima and most recently in Zona Sul. Due to the frequent changes of residence he got to know different parts of Rio de Janeiro and this city always remained an important point of reference in his life, even if he settled in Lisbon and São Paulo in his last years .

Alberto Dines attended the Israelite school "Escola Popular Israelita Brasileira Scholem Aleichem" in Vila Isabel, which belonged to a Jewish community close to a group associated with the socialist left, called "Obreira Internacionalista". Was taught in this school, in the teaching with modern methods (Pestalozzi), he learned Yiddish , which gave him a good base to also German to read and understand. In 1940 the writer Stefan Zweig , who came to Brazil to settle there, attended this school and a meeting took place that shaped Dines' further life. The resulting connection between Dines and Zweig led to the publication of a biography about Stefan Zweig in 1981, "Death in Paradise".

Dines then attended the Jewish high school "Ginásio Hebreu Brasileiro" in Tijuca, which, however, did not represent a socialist, but a communist line. There were Hebrew and Jewish culture taught. It was at this school that he made his first journalistic experience during World War II, as co-editor of a small newspaper that was the organ of a self-sufficiency project set up by the school because of the food shortage that Brazil suffered from ship blockages.

Then followed the time of studying as a científico at Colégio Andrews in Botafogo , which was shaped by the time he spent with other students in the national library of Rio de Janeiro , where they studied and discussed together. Dines dropped out of college because he was in his sophomore year joining the Jewish socialist anti-bourgeois movement, which believed it was necessary to sever ties with the bourgeoisie and that a university degree would be such a link.

Career

After Alberto Dines decided that he wanted to devote himself to culture, he chose cinema and began studying film with a colleague from Colégio Andrews . Since there is no at that time in Brazil film school was, they decided on the basis of books autodidactically read into the topic and deepen. The national library became like a second home for the two autodidacts . After a while, they began to work as a documentary filmmaker for Isaac Rosenberg, where they completed several years of apprenticeship. Although Dines could well imagine becoming a filmmaker , things turned out differently. He received an invitation to write film reviews for a film magazine and accepted the offer. Around 1950, in the "golden years" of world cinema ( Elia Kazan , Dimitri Tiomkin , etc.), Dines enjoyed the privilege of seeing these great films and then writing what he thought about them. As a result he began to work in the "film business", such as B. in the organization of the 1 ° Congresso do Cinema Brasileiro and in the Cineclube do Brasil. He applied for a scholarship from the French embassy for a course at the IDEC (Institut d'Etudes Cinématographiques), but could not produce a letter of recommendation, which is why he was rejected.

In 1952, at the time of the great reforms in the field of the press in Brazil, a film critic was not needed, but a culture reporter and as such he was then employed by the Visão . Over the next 5 years he gained important professional experience, came into contact with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamarati) and began to travel around Brazil. When the North American owners of the Visão realized that the industrial center of Brazil was about to move to São Paulo , the newspaper moved there and Dines came with them. He stayed with Visão for a total of 5 years . He then got an offer to work as a reporter for the Manchete , which he accepted. At the age of 25 he became the editor-in-chief's assistant . Dines later moved to Última Hora and in 1962 to Jornal do Brasil , where he stayed for 12 years.

dictatorship

With the so-called military coup in Brazil in 1964, little changed for Dines as editor-in-chief of Jornal do Brasil . It was not until 1968, when the decree AI-5 (Ato Institucional Número Cinco) was issued by the military dictatorship under Artur da Costa e Silva , that censorship came about . When the military appeared in the editorial building of the Jornal do Brasil and made deletions in the upcoming issue, Dines responded by undoing the deletions and also warning readers on the cover of the coming censorship and warning that things are now would change. The military did not repeat that mistake and took more effective measures the next day, when Dines was already in jail.

When a report was due to appear in 1973 on the military coup in Chile and the death of Salvador Allende , the police received an order not to print this report. Dines had it printed in capital letters, which made a big difference. Three months later he was released from the Jornal do Brasil .

With his release, many doors closed and Dines found himself in "professional exile". Therefore he accepted the invitation to a visiting professorship at the Journalism School of the University of Columbia , New York City , which he received in 1974. After this stay abroad, he became head of the Folha de São Paulo branch in Rio de Janeiro .

Upper Servatório da Imprensa

In the 1990s, Dines located a low point in the history of journalism , as the journalistic work was increasingly dominated by a marketing mentality. At that time, the idea of ​​a postgraduate study and research center for journalism at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) in São Paulo was born , which was realized with the establishment of the Laboratório de Estudos Avançados em Journalismo (Labjor). In order to increase the scope of the work of the study and research center, which is limited to the academic sector, the Oberservatório da Imprensa media observatory was set up in 1995 and exists both as a website and as a radio and television program. The aim was to reach the non-academic sector (without becoming populist and superficial) and, with a focus on media criticism, to bring the Brazilians closer to a critical awareness of the media.

Casa Stefan Zweig

After the death of Stefan Zweig on February 22, 1942, the writer and journalist Raul Azevedo had the idea of ​​a museum in Petrópolis in the house where the writer lived and died. After the war ended, the journalist Murilo Marroquim of “Diários Associados” contacted the writer's heirs in London, who promised to support the initiative. One of the Brazilian diplomats serving in the British capital, Pascoal Carlos Magno, was also interested in the project. More than 60 years later, the idea was realized. The non-profit organization " Casa Stefan Zweig " was founded and the property in Rua Gonçalves Dias, 34, and a piece of the adjacent garden were purchased. The architectural planning was paid for immediately and the construction and information technology part was processed.

With the enthusiastic support of the Mayor of Petrópolis , Rubens Bomtempo, and a group of supporters from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, as well as the Austrian Memorial Service , which has sent a memorial servant to support the project from 2008 , preparations began for the renovation of the building and its conversion into a small museum - the only one in the world with the name of the writer. The museum has been open to visitors from Friday to Sunday since 2012.

The museum houses a library with all works by and about Zweig in all languages, as well as a video library (with all the films and documentaries inspired by his books), photo library, collection of caricatures, a small conference room, a digital archive with copies of the Documents archived in the National Library of Rio de Janeiro and originals.

In the meantime, discussions have begun with collectors in Brazil and other countries about donations of personal items from the writer. Negotiations will soon be initiated with archives in the USA , Germany , Austria and Israel to establish a direct exchange. Although the Casa Stefan Zweig is focused on the person and the work of the writer, it is intended to be a center that commemorates all the artists, intellectuals and scientists who fled to Brazil before and during the Second World War. It should be a memorial to the exile. In February 1942 Stefan Zweig - forced by his tragic election - became a symbol of all intellectuals who had to flee from the Nazis .

Awards

Fonts

  • Death in Paradise - The Tragedy of Stefan Zweig (in the translation by Marlen Eckl ). Book guild Gutenberg , Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-7632-5697-0 . (The Brazilian original edition was published in 1981 under the title "Morte no Paraíso - A Tragédia de Stefan Zweig" by Editora Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro.)
  • O baú de Abravanel. Uma crônica de sete séculos até Silvio Santos . Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 1990, ISBN 85-7164-111-0 .
  • et al. (Ed.): Histórias do poder: 100 anos de política no Brasil . Editora 34, São Paulo 2000, ISBN 85-7326-191-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morre o jornalista Alberto Dines, aos 86 anos. In: Jornal do Brasil. May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018 (Portuguese).
  2. Pierre Johannes: Interview with Stefan Zweig. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien / Austrian Foreign Service , October 24, 2007, archived from the original on February 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 23, 2018 .
  3. Alberto Dines: O baú de Abravanel. Uma crônica de sete séculos até Silvio Santos . Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 1990.
  4. Regina Igel: Imigrantes Judeus - escritores brasileiros. O componente judaico na literatura brasileira . Editora Perspectiva, São Paulo 1997, ISBN 85-273-0129-6 .
  5. ^ Ruedi Leuthold: Homeless in Parades. In: The time . February 7, 2013, p. 57 , archived from the original on May 27, 2013 ; accessed on May 23, 2018 .
  6. ^ Maria Moors Cabot Prizes , accessed June 2, 2018.
  7. ^ Premiados 1993 , accessed June 2, 2018.
  8. ^ Andreas Maislinger: Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award 2007: Alberto Dines. House of Responsibility - Braunau am Inn , archived from the original on August 20, 2011 ; accessed on May 23, 2018 .
  9. ^ High Austrian distinction for the Brazilian journalist and Stefan Zweig biographer Alberto Dines. Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs , April 24, 2009, accessed on May 23, 2018 .
  10. ^ O Globo : Lula entrega Ordem do Mérito das Comunicações a jornalistas. Octavio Frias de Oliveira, postumamente, e Alberto Dines foram agraciados , 29 March 2010, accessed on 2 June 2018.