Bernd Dost

Bernd Dost (born May 16, 1939 in Dortmund ; † February 14, 2015 in Munich ) was a German journalist , filmmaker , writer and publisher . He produced documentaries for ARD and wrote articles for Stern , Münchner Merkur and the Münchner Abendzeitung . He was the brother of the theater and television actress Roswitha Dost .

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Bernd Dost was born to the master craftsman Josef Dost and the writer Elisabeth Dost . During the Second World War , Dost and his parents experienced the bombing of Dortmund and grew up in Hemer in the Sauerland after the evacuation .

He graduated from high school in Iserlohn in 1957 and then studied German, English and psychology in Marburg and Munich. He volunteered at the Westfälische Rundschau in Iserlohn, worked for the Munich student magazine Profil and temporarily for the Insel-Film company as a dramaturgy assistant.

Dost made his own and inflicted by a private loan that he took to the Canadian Richard Archer, the company advertising film studio to start. The company went bankrupt. Through Archer, Dost met the then editor-in-chief and founder of the Münchner Abendzeitung (AZ), Werner Friedmann . There Dost wrote local stories between 1962 and 1964, as well as lines for the photographer Kurt Huhle .

During this time the Münchner Merkur became aware of Dost and hired him for reports. The collaboration ended at the end of 1966 after Dost published the story of Josefine Wrbna-Kaunitz , an asset manager and confidante of the Wittelsbach family , who had been disowned by members of the royal family. Dost was released. He went to Hamburg to write for Stern there.

In May 1968 Bernd Dost was sent to Paris to be the second correspondent to report on the student unrest . After Paris, Dost began working as a documentary filmmaker. Initially in the business department of Bayerischer Rundfunk at the then editor Wolf Feller .

In 1978 Bernd Dost married the businesswoman Caroline von Harder, who headed the PR department for the Beck textile house in Munich and set up a self-employed mail order company for home accessories.

In the 1990s, Bernd Dost founded Vedra Verlag, in which he published his own novels under his name and the pseudonym R. B. van Mattruer, as well as stories from his mother.

Books

Novels / short stories

• Sinking ships (under the pseudonym R. B. van Matturer, 1998), ISBN 978-3-9806432-0-7
• Dead live longer (under the pseudonym R. B. van Matturer, 1999), ISBN 978-3-9806432-1-4
• The Wrathful (2002), ISBN 978-3-9806432-2-1
• Mensch Frankenstein (2004), ISBN 978-3-9806432-5-2
• The Train of No Return (2008), ISBN 978-3-939356-19-6

Non-fiction

• The heirs of the evil - sick children, sick environment . Kösel Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-466-11034-3
• A country is suffocating . Kösel Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-466-11063-7
• Projects of Hope - the Alternative Nobel Prize , with Jakob von Uexküll . Raben Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-922696-58-9
• Healing through holistic medicine . Kösel-Verlag and Goldmann Taschenbuch, 1995/1996, ISBN 3-466-34321-6

Poetry

• Sleep with the beautiful hands - poems . 2003, ISBN 3-9806432-3-9

Documentaries (selection)

• Parlor game: A group dynamics experiment (80 ', 1973)
• The Death of a Sea: Sewer Mediterranean Sea (45 ', 1975)
• The hope of healing - Lourdes and faith healer (45 ', 1977)
• Olé HSV! - Football - Circus for Millions (58 ', 1977)
• Under the shadow flag: exploitation on flagged ships (45 ', 1978)
• The Flying Doctor - on the way to lonely farms in Australia (45 ', 1978)
• The friendly sharks - The salvage shipping business (45 ', 1981)
• The heirs of evil - sick environment, sick children (45 ', 1982)
• Save the Mediterranean - 10 years of fighting for Mare Nostrum (45 ', 1985)
• Marco Polo's heirs - Out and about with merchants (45 ', 1986)
• Einstein's child prodigies - fortune and unhappiness of the gifted (60 ', 1986)
• My home is the jungle: Jane Goodall and the chimpanzees from Gombe (45 ', 1987)
• Gifted children - observations over three years (60 ', 1989)
• Enemy yesterday, comrade today? - Bundeswehr and NVA (45 ', 1990)
• A wound that does not heal - Clear-cutting in Papua New Guinea (45 ', 1990)
• 30 years of Amnesty International - struggle for human rights (45 ', 1991)
• All kinds of people: Angelo Conti Rossini (30 ', 1992)
• Everything waltz! - The dance, my life: Walter Deutsch (58 ', 1993)
• Nature takes revenge - climate disasters (45 ', 1993)
• Lifeline: The cook, the clown and his love for anarchy: Angelo Conti Rossini (45 ', 1995)
• Three women in Papua New Guinea: Between hut and high-rise (58 ', 1995)
• Did Kohl kiss Madonna? How to manipulate with images (45 ', 1996)
• Lifeline: Napoleon the landlord Richard Süßmeier (45 ', 1996)
• Walt Disney's Secret - On the Trail of a Legend (68 ', 1999)
• 20 days in the 20th century: Chernobyl - the atomic horror (44 ', 1999)
• 20 days in the 20th century: Hiroshima - the nuclear threat (44 ', 1999)
• Four bright minds - long-term observation of gifted children (88 ', 2000)
• The Amazons of Oberammergau - The Passion of Strong Women (79 ', 2000)
• Crime scene child: violence that comes from the cold (45 ', 2001)
• Lifelines : Moshammer - Live your own dream. (45 ', 2001)
• The clones are coming: genetic engineering between dream and nightmare (45 ', 2002)
• Lifeline: The Wiesnwirt from Nockherberg. Peter Pongratz (45 ', 2004)
• Together to Europe: German-Czech Reconciliation (45 ', 2004)

Web links

• Bernd Dost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bernd Dost on the end of the "Westfälische Rundschau"
• Vedra publishing house
• DostFilme.de