Bernd Oertwig

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Bernd Oertwig (born September 5, 1949 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Bernd Oertwig grew up in Berlin. He completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the Berlin printing company Büxenstein . Afterwards Oertwig went for a newspaper internship for two years for " Harzburger newspaper " to Bad Harzburg . He then headed the local editorial office of the " Leine-Deister-Zeitung " in Gronau / Leine before returning to Berlin. At the BZ he was initially a sports editor, later deputy local manager, head of politics and news chief.

He started a part-time study in the pilot project "Journalist Training" at the Free University of Berlin under Prof. Alexander von Hoffmann and graduated with a lic.rer.publ. from. From the mid-80s he worked as a freelance journalist for various magazines and newspapers at home and abroad, lived next to Berlin in Vienna , Hamburg and Cologne , where he managed the press office of the amusement park “ Phantasialand ”.

Since October 1989 he has been exclusively in Berlin and was after the fall of the wall head of East Berlin offices of West Berlin BZ After the Head of Department policy in IMAGE Eastern Germany he took over for a short time the leadership of the local section with BZ, before he finally and is still a freelancer today. Since then he has been editor-in-chief of the Berlin radio station 94.3 rs2 , founded the SCHROEWIG photo agency with his wife Eva Oertwig and now works exclusively as a journalist and author, including for the International Auschwitz Committee .

Publications

  • Bernd Oertwig: Famous dead live forever . Berlin fates. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-947215-58-4 .
  • International Auschwitz Committee: Signs of Anger . International Auschwitz Committee , Berlin 2017.
  • Bernd Oertwig: One more night . In: Short Story in Anthology Sleepless at Ellington . tape 2 . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053453-9 .
  • International Auschwitz Committee: The People Before Scripture . About the Jewish artisan family Loevy. International Auschwitz Committee, Berlin 2012.
  • Bernd Oertwig: Rik DeLisle - The old American tells his radio stories . Holzinger-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-926396-42-6 .
  • Bernd Oertwig: Big City Wolves . Gladow's gang - the horror of Berlin. Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-548-20152-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Auschwitz Committee: Presentation: "The People Before Writing". In: auschwitz.info. January 26, 2015, accessed August 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Oertwig, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin