Eberhard Fensch

Eberhard Fensch (born May 20, 1929 in Stettin ; † January 8, 2017 in Anklam ) was a German journalist and party functionary ( SED ). From 1968 to 1989 he was the deputy head of the agitation department of the Central Committee of the SED, responsible for directing radio and television in the GDR .

Life

The son of a scale maker attended elementary and high school. During the time of National Socialism he was a member of the Hitler Youth .

After the war he became a member of the FDJ in 1946 . He was initially a member of the LDPD in 1947/48 and joined the SED in 1948. From 1950 Fensch initially worked as a cultural manager in the Rostock shipping company . From 1950 to 1952 he acted as first secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Rostock. After his father left the GDR for West Berlin in 1951 , his career as an FDJ functionary ended for the time being. In 1952, Fensch was sent to the Mathias Thesen shipyard in Wismar as an FDJ secretary for "probation" . In 1954 he took over the management of the company newspaper and radio at the shipyard in Wismar. In 1955/56 Fensch was a reporter or editor at the Rostock broadcasting station, whose management he took over temporarily in 1956. In August 1961 he moved to East Berlin , where he took over the business editor of the two radio stations of Radio DDR ( Radio DDR I and II ). He completed a correspondence course at the journalism section of KMU Leipzig in 1963 as a qualified journalist . In 1966, Fensch became a member of the State Broadcasting Committee of the GDR and in 1968 was appointed to the Central Committee's agitation department by Central Committee Secretary Werner Lamberz . As deputy head of the agitation department, he was responsible for the censorship of radio and television in the GDR until 1989 . He himself described his work as "advisor, auxiliary body and supervisory authority in one".

In January 1990 he was expelled from the Association of Journalists of the GDR (VdJ). In February 1990 he took early retirement. He last lived on the island of Usedom . Eberhard Fensch died on January 8, 2017 in a hospital in Anklam.

Awards

• 1979 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1984 in gold

Fonts

• So and even better: How Honecker wanted television . Verlag Edition Ost , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-360-01047-7
• Secret files “Werderscher Markt” . Spotless-Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937943-24-2
• The invasion of the pusher . Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-02031-4

Radio plays

• 1967: Spätschicht - Director: Helmut Hellstorff ( Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1968: The dreams of Dr. Reinschmidt - Director: Horst Schönemann (Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1969: Contradiction - Director: Horst Schönemann (Broadcasting of the GDR)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 66.
• Ingrid Kirschey-Feix :  Fensch, Eberhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Eberhard Fensch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eberhard Fensch in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Medienlenker died . Junge Welt , January 10, 2017, accessed January 10, 2017.
2. ↑ Eberhard Fensch: So and even better . P. 100. Quoted from: Heiner Stahl: Review by Fensch, Eberhard: “So and only better”. How Honecker wanted television. [… ] On the H-Soz-Kult website , October 20, 2005, accessed on January 10, 2017 (pdf; 61 kB).