Erich Kock

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Erich Bernhard Kock (born September 19, 1925 in Münster ; † January 14, 2016 in Cologne-Müngersdorf ) was a German writer , publicist and author of numerous non-fiction books, biographies, short stories, documentaries and portraits in film and television.

family

Erich Kock grew up in Münster's Kreuzviertel and attended the Paulinum grammar school . His father died when Kock was just eleven years old. His first wife, with whom he had two children, died at the age of 32. Kock married again, was a father of six and lived with his family in Cologne-Müngersdorf .

Life

Erich Kock was a soldier in Hungary and a prisoner of war in Bordeaux . In the barbed wire seminar in Chartres, he began studying Catholic theology , philosophy and German with Abbé Franz Stock . From 1953 he worked as a journalist, initially for newspapers and magazines. He later went to radio and created more than 100 films for television on theological, art and contemporary topics and published several books. He wrote about personalities of the past and present such as Heinrich Böll , Julien Green , Reinhold Schneider , Dompropst Bernhard Lichtenberg , Abbé Franz Stock, Franziska Schervier and the blessed Nikolaus Groß . He was friends with Nelly Sachs , Julien Green, Robert Spaemann , Ernst Jünger , Lew Kopelew , Gabriel Marcel and Josef Pieper . He was a personal friend of Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. , and was involved for decades as an author in the Catholic magazine " Communio " co-founded by Ratzinger . In 1977 Kock was awarded the Catholic Journalism Prize.

From 1961 to 1968 he supported Heinrich Böll as his personal secretary and advisor. He was significantly involved in researching the works “ Views of a Clown ” and “ End of a Business Trip ”. He later worked for the German Caritas Association for 22 years and was editor-in-chief of the Caritas magazine in North Rhine-Westphalia from September 1, 1971 to September 30, 1990 . In 1990 he received the "Silver Bread Plate" from the German Caritas Association.

Kock also published under the pseudonyms Leo Bretelle and Georg Clamor .

Erich Kock was buried on January 21, 2016 in the community cemetery in Cologne-Müngersdorf.

Works (selection)

honors and awards

  • Press and Critic Award, UNDA Festival, Monte Carlo (1963)
  • Silver Dove, UNDA Festival, Monte Carlo (1966)
  • Grant from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (1976)
  • Journalist Award (1977)
  • Silver bread plate of the German. Caritas Association (1990)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Kock in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors , accessed on January 15, 2016
  2. ↑ WDR Kulturnachrichten from January 14, 2016: Publicist Erich Kock died ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 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. , accessed January 15, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.wdr.de
  3. ↑ Johannes Loy: “A visit to the Catholic writer and publicist Erich Kock in Cologne The greats of time met” , Westfälische Nachrichten , January 31, 2014
  4. ↑ 7 questions to Erich B. Kock , homepage of the Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany , accessed on October 27, 2013
  5. ↑ a b c Uli Kreikebaum: WDR Kulturnachrichten from January 14, 2016: Portrait of Erich Kock Far more than Heinrich Böll's right-hand man, Kölner Stadtanzeiger from September 16, 2015
  6. ↑ Johannes Loy: “The Catholic journalist and publicist Erich Kock died at the age of 90. His voice always had weight” , Westfälische Nachrichten , January 16, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kock, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kock, Erich B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2016
Place of death Cologne