Ernst Weisenfeld
Ernst Weisenfeld (born August 21, 1913 in Gevelsberg , Westphalia , † January 4, 2009 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and author .
Life
Weisenfeld studied history, political science, newspaper studies and Romanian at the University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1938 on the Transylvanian Saxons ( history of political journalism among the Transylvanian Saxons ) and later became a correspondent in Bucharest .
Weisenfeld began his career for the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk in France in 1951 as a Paris reporter. He also reported for WAZ , Die Welt and other newspapers.
In 1961 he was commissioned to set up the first German television studio in Bonn. He headed this capital studio of the ARD in Bonn until 1964 and also moderated the report from Bonn . From 1969 to 1978 he worked in Paris as a correspondent and head of the Paris ARD office, but also worked for Die Zeit .
From the early 1980s to 1993 he was editor-in-chief of the Bonn journal Documents .
Radio Barcelona awarded him the “Premio Ondas” in 1976 and a few years later he was awarded the “German-French Radio and Television Prize of the Saarland Radio”.
In 1992, Weisenfeld established a foundation in memory of his first wife Elena, who came from Transylvania, to support schoolchildren and young people for the preservation of the German language and culture in schools and universities in Romania .
Awards and honors
- 1978: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1983: German-French journalism award
- 1989: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to the understanding between Germany and France
- 1990: Strasbourg Gold Medal from the FVS Foundation
He also received the Transylvanian-Saxon Culture Prize in 2004. In 2008 the regional church school dormitory in Sibiu was named: Ernst Weisenfeld dormitory.
Works
- De Gaulle sees Europe - speeches and declarations 1958-1966 , Frankfurt / M., Fischer, 1966.
- Which Germany should it be? France and German unity since 1945 , Munich, Beck, 1986.
- The history of France since 1945. From de Gaulle to the present . 3rd edition. Munich, Beck, 1997. ISBN 3-406-42007-9
literature
- Ulrich Pfeil , Ernst Weisenfeld (1913–2009) - an expert as mediator in German-French relations, in: Nicole Colin, Patrick Farges, Fritz Taubert (eds.), Approach through conflict: mediators and mediation , Heidelberg, Synchron, 2017 , Pp. 313-324.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ex-ARD correspondent in Paris Ernst Weisenfeld died. digitalfernsehen.de, January 5, 2009, archived from the original on January 18, 2009 ; accessed on December 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Ingo Kolboom : Ernst Weisenfeld, a grand seigneur of German journalism and an actor in German-French understanding, is dead. - Obituary from a friend. Accessed December 27, 2014 (PDF file; 36 kB).
- ^ A b Hermann Rudolph: The German-French. On the death of the correspondent Ernst Weisenfeld - an obituary. Der Tagesspiegel , January 9, 2009, accessed December 27, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Kurt Franchy: Publicist and Foundation Founder Dr. Ernst Weisenfeld is 95 years old. Siebenbürgische Zeitung , August 20, 2008, accessed December 27, 2014 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Weisenfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weisenfeld, Ernst |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gevelsberg |
DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 2009 |
Place of death | Hamburg |