Bohdan Osadczuk
Bohdan Osadczuk , pseudonym Alexander Korab ( Ukrainian Богдан Осадчук , Bohdan Ossadtschuk ; born August 1, 1920 in Kolomea , Poland , today Ukraine ; † October 19, 2011 in Myślenice near Krakow ), was a Ukrainian journalist and political scientist .
Life
Osadczuk was the son of a Ukrainian teacher. He was expelled from the high school in Pińczów because of nationalist conflicts. At the beginning of the Second World War , he stayed with his family in Kazimierza Wielka and Busko-Zdrój in what was then the General Government . He passed his school leaving examination in Krakow in 1941.
science
From 1941 he lived in Berlin , where he studied the history of the countries of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, international law and Eastern European languages at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , especially at the Faculty of Foreign Studies (the former German University of Politics ) in Berlin . He defended his diploma thesis on the press in Carpathian Ukraine in Berlin in 1944. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Soviet nationality politics after the Second World War at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich . In 1966 he was appointed professor at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin (FUB). Later he taught at the Eastern European Institute of the FUB.
journalism
Osadczuk was briefly active in the Polish military representation in Berlin, after which he worked for the Neue Zeitung , which was published by the Americans . From June 26th to 30th, 1950 he took part in the Congress of Free Culture in Berlin, where he met Jerzy Giedroyc, among others . Thanks to the support of the Paris Literature Institute, he published the voices on Eastern European issues from June 1952 to January 1953 and became a permanent member of the Paris Kultura . In the 1950s and 1960s he worked as a correspondent for the Basler Nationalzeitung and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as well as the daily newspapers Der Tagesspiegel , Münchner Merkur , Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Osadczuk became known to the television audience as an occasional guest in Werner Höfer's Sunday international morning pint .
Awards
In the 1980s he was the editor of the Ukrainian exile newspaper Widnowa (Віднова - renewal). On May 3, 2001, Bohdan Osadczuk was awarded the highest Polish Order of the White Eagle . On November 8, 2007 he received the Jerzy Giedroyc Prize .
bibliography
- Bohdan Osadczuk: White eagle, cross and red flag. Chronicle of the crises of the communist system of rule in Poland 1956–1982. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1982 ISBN 3-85823-074-X .
- Basil Kerski , Andrzej Stanisław Kowalczyk (ed.): A Ukrainian cosmopolitan with a Berlin address. Conversations with Bohdan Osadczuk (Alexander Korab). Fiber Verlag, Osnabrück 2003, ISBN 3-929759-77-2 ( publications of the German-Polish Society Bundesverband eV 2).
Web links
- Literature by and about Bohdan Osadczuk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Conversation with Bohdan Osadczuk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ukrainian journalist Bohdan Osadczuk has died. Deutschlandradio, October 20, 2011 ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Osadczuk, Bohdan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Осадчук, Богдан (Ukrainian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolomea |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 2011 |
| Place of death | Myślenice |