Brigitte Desalm

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Brigitte Desalm (* 1942 in Remscheid ; † December 12, 2002 in Cologne ) was a German journalist and film critic .

life and work

Brigitte Desalm grew up in her place of birth, Remscheid. After graduating from high school, she studied German and pedagogy and trained as an actress . After her first engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , she switched to journalism in 1963. Desalm did her traineeship at the Deutsche Zeitung at DuMont-Verlag . She then worked as a freelance literary critic for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk , Deutsche Welle and the magazine Der Monats .

In December 1972 she started to work for the culture department of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . In 1980 she took over the management of the film department there. In addition, Desalm publishes film essays on WDR television , wrote regularly for the magazine steadycam , and wrote articles for books on film. Desalm worked for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger for 30 years until she died from cancer .

The focus of her work was the American cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. Tom Tykwer described her as " Pauline Kael of German film criticism", a judgment that is also followed by the obituary in the world . For her contribution "Fluchtpunkt für die Volksseele" about the " Büdchen " in Cologne, Desalm received the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1999 in the local category.

literature

  • "Brigitte Desalm - film critic" (= Film & Schrift Vol. 19, edited by Rolf Aurich and Wolfgang Jacobsen), Munich: edition text + kritik 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b On the death of Brigitte Desalm . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from December 16, 2002.
  2. ↑ Died: Brigitte Desalm . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52/2002 (December 21, 2002), p. 166.
  3. ↑ Tom Tykwer: The shy temptress . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from December 19, 2002. ( On the death of Brigitte Desalm ( Memento from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ))
  4. ↑ DW: Brigitte Desalm died . In: Die Welt of December 17, 2002.
  5. ↑ Award-winning text: Vanishing point for the people's soul by Brigitte Desalm ( memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), published in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on April 14th / 15th March 1998. Quoted from the website of the Theodor Wolff Prize (1999).
personal data
SURNAME Desalm, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2002
Place of death Cologne