Ferdinand Kroh

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Ferdinand Kroh (born October 19, 1950 in West Berlin ; died June 14, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and non-fiction author.

Life

Ferdinand Kroh attended the Walther Rathenau School in Berlin and studied political science until 1976 with a diploma at the Free University of Berlin . He initially worked as a freelance writer for feature, school radio and family programs for the radio stations SFB and RIAS, as well as for other radio editors on ARD and Deutschlandfunk. In 1980/81 he was reporter and news editor for the Berlin daily newspaper Der Abend . In 1986 he was the studio head of Ufa Radio-RTL in Berlin, then from 1987 to 1992 GDR and Berlin correspondent for RTL Radio, from 1988 to 2003 Germany correspondent for Radio Z (Zurich), as well as for other German-speaking private radio stations.

Kroh was a material developer and screenwriter for several television reports. From 1978 Kroh became the first German author to tap into the Jewish resistance to National Socialism in a journalistic way.

Writings and productions (selection)

Fonts
  • (Ed.): "Freedom is always freedom ..." Those who think differently in the GDR . Ullstein, Frankfurt / Main, 1988, ISBN 3-548-34489-5
  • David is fighting. On the Jewish resistance against Hitler. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 349915644X
  • Turning maneuvers. The secret ways to reunite . Munich: Hanser, 2005; revised new edition 2011
Productions
  • 1980 Three women in the resistance against Hitler , SFB
  • 1982 The other life of Joachim Blöhm - life sentence in the Maldives (NDR / BR)
  • 1983 People without a shadow - Jewish underground in Berlin (SFB)
  • 1987–95 TV reports for license plate D (ZDF), as well as fact and plusminus (ARD)
  • 1993 Die Greiferin - a Jewish woman works for the Gestapo (ORB / SWF) (based on the vita of Stella Goldschlag )
  • 1994 Chasak-Be strong! - Jewish underground in Europe (3Sat)
  • 2004 From the Politburo to the madhouse. The Herbert Häber case (NDR / ARD)

literature

  • Marc Reichwein: German witching hour. Who was the man to whom Stella Goldschlag bequeathed her rights? Reconstruction of a sad story , in: The Literary World , February 9, 2019, p. 25

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personal data
SURNAME Kroh, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2014
Place of death Berlin