Erich Boehme

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Erich Böhme, 1985 in Hamburg.

Erich Böhme (born February 8, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 27, 2009 in Bad Saarow ) was a German journalist and television presenter .

Life

Böhme grew up in Frankfurt . After school he studied there Economics and completed a degree in economics from.

Böhme was married to the former Spiegel culture editor and later literary agent Monica Vogelgsang († 1990), his third marriage to her niece, the fashion designer Daniela Vogelgsang. Since August 2004 the former GDR news anchor Angelika Unterlauf was his fourth wife. He last lived with her in Worin in the Oderland in the Brandenburg region. Böhme died on November 27, 2009 as a result of longstanding cancer. Family, friends and representatives from politics and the media said goodbye to Erich Böhme at a memorial service in Berlin's Memorial Church on December 14, 2009. Former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer praised Böhme as a “living history book of the old Federal Republic”. For him, journalism was a defense of democracy. His grave is in the French cemetery in Berlin.

career

In 1953 he started as an agency journalist for the United Economic Services and then moved to the Deutsche Zeitung, which appears in Stuttgart . In 1958 he went to the news magazine Spiegel , where he first became a business correspondent in the then federal capital Bonn and from 1969 office manager there. Böhme became editor-in-chief of Spiegel in 1973 when his friend and predecessor Günter Gaus switched to politics. At Spiegel, he was also responsible for reporting on the Barschel affair . The revelations of the then media advisor to Prime Minister Barschel, Reiner Pfeiffer , about the manipulations in the Schleswig-Holstein state election campaign in 1987, Böhme himself described as the high point of his career.

On October 30, 1989, shortly before the Wall came down , Böhme published the comment “The opportunity is good” with the core sentence: “I don't want to be reunited.” Five years later he put this into perspective with the words: “What devil likes me rode when I wrote in the Spiegel five years ago 'I don't want to be reunited'? "

After several differences of opinion with Rudolf Augstein , Böhme left Spiegel at the end of 1989 - shortly before his 60th birthday - after almost 17 years as editor-in-chief. As of November 1990, he served as editor of the four years of Gruner + Jahr and Robert Maxwell laid Berliner Zeitung operates. Also from 1990 he moderated the political talk show Talk im Turm on Sat.1 for eight and a half years . From the end of 1997 Böhme moderated the Green Salon at n-tv together with Heinz Eggert , before returning to his initial TV format with Talk in Berlin. On February 27, 2007, Böhme presented the program Menschen bei Maischberger as a substitute for Sandra Maischberger , who took a baby break lasting several weeks . Even after his time as editor of the Berliner Zeitung he was still active as a print journalist. He wrote columns for the Berliner Zeitung, the Münchner Abendzeitung and the Sächsische Zeitung, among others .

From mid-1990 to 1993 Böhme was a member of the advisory board of the non-profit Bertelsmann Foundation .

The grave of Erich Böhme in the French Cemetery I in Berlin.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Erich Böhme  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel, No. 24/1985, page 108: Report on the simultaneous fight of Garry Kasparov against 31 opponents .
  2. ↑ Obituaries Erich Böhme died on November 27th, 2009 ( Memento of the original of January 3rd, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.trauer.de
  3. ↑ a b c alpha-forum, Erich Böhme in conversation with Klaus Kastan broadcast on February 8, 2005, 8.15 p.m. (PDF; 54 kB)
  4. ↑ Died: Monica Böhme , Der Spiegel, July 30, 1990
  5. ↑ Ex- "Spiegel" boss Erich Böhme died ; Focus, November 28, 2009
  6. ↑ Wolfram Bickerich: Erich Böhme (obituary). In: Der Spiegel 50/2009 of 7 December 2009, p. 182 f.
  7. ↑ Erich Böhme: The opportunity is favorable ; Der Spiegel, October 30, 1989
  8. ↑ Erich Böhme: November 9th - the big end ; in: Berliner Zeitung, November 9, 1994
  9. ↑ Ex- "Spiegel" boss Erich Böhme died ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Berliner Zeitung, November 28, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinonline.de
  10. ↑ H. Palmer: Mourning Erich Böhme - The man with the rotating glasses. In: Spiegel-Online from November 29, 2009
  11. ↑ Chronicle. Bertelsmann Foundation, accessed on May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Böhme, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and moderator
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2009
Place of death Bad Saarow