Dagobert Lindlau

Dagobert Lindlau (1986)

Dagobert Lindlau (born October 11, 1930 in Munich ; † November 30, 2018 in Vaterstetten ) was a German journalist and writer .

life and work

Dagobert Lindlau was seriously injured as a child in one of the air raids on Munich in 1944 . After graduating from high school , he worked for newspapers and magazines as well as scriptwriting and theater translator. In 1954, Lindlau came to Bayerischer Rundfunk as a television journalist . In 1962 he transformed the program Anno into the magazine Report Munich, which is still in existence today . In 1965 he became chief reporter at Bayerischer Rundfunk, and from 1967 to 1969 he was editor-in-chief at Report Munich . Lindlau hosted the Weltspiegel from 1975 to 1987 and the NDR Talk Show from 1979 to 1982 .

In 1984 he had a cameo as a reporter in the German film Morgen in Alabama . Between 1987 and 1989 he was an ARD correspondent in Vienna , after which he returned to Bayerischer Rundfunk as chief reporter. In 1991 he moderated the Veranda panel discussion on ARD . In 1993 Lindlau directed the program Gegen den Grain at VOX .

Dagobert Lindlau was involved in three awards with the Adolf Grimme Prize . In 1967 Bayerischer Rundfunk received the award for Lindlau's interview with Max Horkheimer on “fascist anti-fascism”. In 1970 he was honored with the Adolf Grimme Prize in bronze for the report Perry Mason Lives . In 1986 he received the “Special Honor for Outstanding Services to Television in the Federal Republic of Germany”.

Lindlaus reports also sparked controversial discussions. His reports of organized crime in the Federal Republic were questioned by politicians and police officers. The books Der Mob (1987) and Der Lohnkiller (1992), based on Lindlaus research , became bestsellers . Lindlaus' novels Rakket (1990) and Stragler's Week (1997) are also based on milieu studies. His reporting on the Romanian program for the systematisation of the villages in the Weltspiegel triggered a heated discussion.

Lindlau last lived in Vaterstetten in the Ebersberg district near Munich in retirement. In his 2006 book Reporter - a kind of profession , he looked back on around 50 years as a journalist. Dagobert Lindlau had an implanted defibrillator that he later switched off. Dagobert Lindlaus' partner was the plastic surgeon Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann, who died in 2017 .

Poison attack against Dieter Wagner

On June 6, 1972, the editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dieter Wagner, visited him in his house in Vaterstetten . When he said goodbye, Wagner drank a bottle of Silverstone - Boonekamp offered by Lindlau , which was poisoned with a lethal dose of E 605 . Three of the poisoned bottles had been sent by an unknown person to the office address of Lindlau's partner Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann, who practiced as a doctor in a Munich hospital. Schmidt-Tintemann initiated resuscitation measures in vain. Dieter Wagner died on the same day.

Publications (selection)

• (Ed. :) Thoughts about a politician: That man Brandt. Kindler, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-463-00529-8 .
• The mob. Organized Crime Research . dtv , Munich 1989, ISBN 3-455-08659-4 .
• Rakket. A Charlie Furcher hit. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 978-3-455-04481-2 .
• The wage killer. An organized crime figure. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-77095-4 . (including about the Hamburg professional killer Werner Pinzner )
• Stragler's week. A St. Pauli saga. Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-455-04482-9 .
• Reporter - a kind of profession. Memories. Piper Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-492-04867-6 .

Web links

• Dagobert Lindlau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Dagobert Lindlau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dagobert Lindlaus website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mourning for BR journalist and writer Dagobert Lindlau. In: BR24 . November 30, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
2. ^ Reporter Dagobert Lindlau dead: The Indomitable. In: faz.net . November 30, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
3. ^ Spiegel online: Dagobert Lindlau: Journalist died at the age of 88. Accessed December 1, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Dagobert Lindlau: Notes on the Vita. In: Dagobert Lindlau's website. Retrieved November 30, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Grimme Prize with Bronze: Report: The Fascist Antifascism. Grimme Institute, archived from the original on March 10, 2015 ; accessed on November 30, 2018 . 
6. ^ Prize winner 1970: Dagobert Lindlau. In: Grimme Institute . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 30, 2018 . 
7. ^ Prize winner 1986: Dagobert Lindlau. Grimme Institute, archived from the original on November 4, 2014 ; accessed on November 30, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Dagobert Lindlau: Romania: Thank God is not razed. In: Die Zeit 48/1988. November 25, 1988. Retrieved November 30, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Munich: Medical company pays Lindlau voluntarily. In: sueddeutsche.de . August 8, 2013, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on November 30, 2018 . 
10. ↑ All the best, Professor! - The "mother of plastic surgery" celebrates her 90th birthday. In: Graefinger Anzeiger. June 26, 2014, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Spiegel, June 12, 1972