Bernd G. Langin

Bernd G. Längin (born June 21, 1941 in Karlsruhe , † June 28, 2008 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) was a German journalist , writer , editor , foreign correspondent and editor .

Life

Bernd G. Längin worked as a foreign correspondent in Asia . He then worked for five years as a journalist and editor for the German-language general newspaper in South West Africa , now Namibia . He then worked from 1969 to 1983 as editor-in-chief of the Courier newspaper group in Canada , North America's largest group of German-language weekly newspapers, and most recently as editor-in-chief of “Globus”, a globally read body for the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad .

In 1988 he became a correspondent for CBC , Radio Canada International.

From 1992 he was a freelance journalist and author (roving reporter). He has worked with print media, radio, television, and photography, and has published numerous books, illustrated books, and pictorial documentation.

Längin lived as a writer and journalist in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada, where he died in 2008 at the age of 67.

Awards

• 1982: Friedrich List Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg “for special journalistic achievements abroad”.

Publications

• Germantown. On the German trail in North America. Westkreuz, Berlin 1983, ISBN 978-3-922131-32-8 .
• The Hutterites . Prisoners of the past, pilgrims of the present, prophets of the future. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-89136-061-4 (Paperback: Goldmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-442-11686-4 ).
• German pictures. Cities, landscapes and people in old photos. Weltbild, Augsburg 1989, ISBN 3-89350-091-X .
• The Amish . The secret of the simple life. List, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-471-78049-1 .
• The Russian Germans under the double-headed eagle and the Soviet star: cities, landscapes and people in old photos. Weltbild, Augsburg 1991, ISBN 3-89350-107-X .
• Unforgettable homeland of Silesia : cities, landscapes and people in old photos . Weltbild, Augsburg 1994, ISBN 3-89350-110-X .
• God's last islands. How the Hutterites and Amish live. Pattloch, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-629-00674-4 .
• Unforgettable home of East Prussia . Cities, landscapes and people in old photos. Weltbild, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-89350-786-8 .
• The American Civil War . A chronicle in pictures, day after day. Weltbild, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-86047-900-1 .
• Unforgettable home of East Prussia. Searching for traces in the amber country. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 2002, ISBN 3-8289-3145-6 .
• The German colonies. Locations and fates 1884–1918. Mittler, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-8132-0821-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd G. Längin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Herbert Bopp: The "Doctor of Writing" is dead . In: NDSU Libraries
• Obituary for Bernd G. Längin . In: Winnipeg Free Press, July 4, 2008
• Bibliography by Bernd G. Längin . In: NDSU Libraries
• Bernd Längin Book Collection . In: NDSU Libraries (PDF; German, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herbert Bopp: The "Doctor of Writing" is dead. In: NDSU Libraries. Retrieved March 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ James T. Gessele: Book Review: About the Author. In: NDSU Libraries. Retrieved March 18, 2019 . 
3. ^ Obituary of Bernd G. Längin. In: Winnipeg Free Press. July 4, 2008, accessed March 18, 2019 . 
4. ^ Portrait of Bernd G. Längin . In: Unforgotten Homeland Silesia - Land between the Spree and the Vistula. Weltbild, Augsburg 2011 (PDF; 63 kB).