Erich Selbmann
Erich Selbmann (born September 2, 1926 in Lauterbach , Hesse , † April 29, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German journalist .
Life
Selbmann was born in 1926 as the son of the communist party functionary and later Minister of Economics of the GDR, Fritz Selbmann . He grew up at the age of six after the early death of his mother and during his father's political imprisonment with friends. There he also became a member of a resistance group .
As a teenager he joined the German Wehrmacht in 1944 , then Soviet and later Polish prisoners of war.
After his return in 1946 he began to study journalism and then got a job at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . From 1953 to 1955 Erich Selbmann acted as editor-in-chief at Deutschlandsender and three years later was appointed director of the Berliner Rundfunk . His political activity that followed lasted from 1959 to 1964, when he worked as a secretary for agitation and propaganda for the SED district leadership in Berlin. From 1963 to 1967 he was also a member of the city council of Berlin. From 1964 to 1966 he had an office as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and later from 1966 to 1978 he headed an important area of GDR television as editor-in-chief of the current camera . Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Selbmann was deputy chairman of the State Committee for Television and head of the Dramatic Art division.
Awards
- 1976 Order Banner of Labor Level I
- 1986 National Prize of the GDR 1st class for art and literature
Fonts
- The sword of the great Corsican, A journalist tells New Life publishing house 1973
- Letters from Moabit by Heinz Keßler , Erich Selbmann, Knut Holm , Gerhard Holtz-Baumert (editor) ISBN 3-928999-28-1
- Words of life: old texts read anew. An antifa reading book ISBN 3-935445-60-1
- The three decisions of the zymbal player ISBN 3-933544-70-X
- 20 men of the 20th century ISBN 3-933544-82-3
- 20 women of the 20th century ISBN 3-933544-57-2
- Party Congress of the Builders of Communism by Erich Selbmann, Werner Goldstein (1966)
- The process. 527-10 / 92 - Criminal case against Honecker and others (1993) ISBN 3-928999-15-X
- The eighth of May 1945. End and beginning (1995) ISBN 3-929161-32-X
- The Many Faces of Resistance (1995) ISBN 3-928999-44-3
- DFF Adlershof , Paths across the TV country (1998) ISBN 3-932180-52-6
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Selbmann, Erich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Selbmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erich Selbmann in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany from May 1, 1976
- ^ New Times of October 8, 1986
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Selbmann, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauterbach , Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 2006 |
| Place of death | Berlin |