Brigitte Zimmermann
Brigitte Zimmermann (born May 22, 1939 in Sagan , Lower Silesia Province ) is a German journalist .
Life
Zimmermann grew up as the daughter of a saleswoman and a decorator in Weimar . Her mother moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic . As a consequence, it was not possible for Zimmermann to start studying immediately after graduating from high school. Instead, from 1958, she worked for three years in a joinery of the VEB combine harvester in Weimar .
Zimmermann came to journalism through a youth correspondent course organized by the FDJ - the central organ of the Junge Welt . Junge Welt took over carpenter's training and then employed her as a court reporter. Overall, she was editor of Junge Welt from 1962 to 1978 : from 1966 to 1970 head of department, then deputy editor-in-chief. In 1965 and 1966 Zimmermann attended the Komsomol University in Moscow. In 1968 she graduated from the technical college for journalism in Leipzig. In addition to her work for the Junge Welt , she was also acting editor-in-chief of the student magazine Forum in 1973/74 .
After her time at Junge Welt, Zimmermann worked for the Central Council of the FDJ from 1978 to 1982 , where she maintained close professional contact with Egon Krenz . Zimmermann describes the collaboration with Krenz as "full of conflict, but also sincere". The differences nevertheless led to the end of this cooperation.
Between 1983 and 1991 Zimmermann was editor-in-chief of the Wochenpost . During this period, as a reaction to German reunification, the newspaper was restructured: the number of subscribers had to be defended against the new competition in the form of newspapers from the old federal states, and journalists who were particularly close to the system had to be replaced. Zimmermann then became deputy editor-in-chief at Neues Deutschland , until she went freelance as a journalist in 1999 . Until 2003 she wrote satirical columns for the New Germany .
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Brigitte Zimmermann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Renate Schubert: Without major damage? Talks with journalists from the GDR. Ölschläger Verlag, Munich 1992, p. 57. ISBN 978-3882951790
- ↑ Example
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmermann, Brigitte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sagan , Lower Silesia Province |