Franz-Josef Reichert

Franz-Josef Reichert (2007)

Franz-Josef Reichert (born May 21, 1934 in Wallerfangen ; † April 15, 2012 in Kleinblittersdorf , born Armin Franz-Josef Reichert ) was a German art historian and journalist . He was program director radio of the Saarland Radio .

Life

Franz-Josef Reichert was the first of three children born to his parents Jakob Josef Reichert (1901–1973) and Henriette Anna Maria, née. Albert (1912–1998, niece of the apostolic vicar and bishop on the Gold Coast Maximilian Albert, who died in 1903 ). He spent his childhood and youth in Wallerfangen and Saarbrücken , temporarily in the course of two evacuations from the Red Zone in Frankfurt am Main , Würzburg and Bütthard , and after the war in Saarlouis and Dillingen / Saar . There he was involved in the Catholic Church Community of the Holy Sacrament and in the St. George Scouts until the end of his school days. In Dillingen he met his future wife Maria Elisabeth Reichert, geb. Steinbach (* 1932) know. The marriage resulted in two children, the daughter Gertrud Maria Ulrike (* 1961) and the son Peter Franz-Josef (* 1962). The family lived in Saarbrücken from 1966 to 1969, then in Kleinblittersdorf .

education

During the evacuations at the beginning and end of the Second World War , Franz-Josef Reichert first attended primary school in Frankfurt / Main and Saarbrücken , then the grammar school in Würzburg . After returning to Saarland , he entered the sixth class of the humanistic grammar school in Saarlouis in 1945 , which he left in 1954 after graduating from high school. He then studied German, Romance studies, musicology, philosophy and art history at the Saarland University . At the art history institute there, he conducted excavations in Tholey from 1957 to 1959 under his doctoral supervisor JA Schmoll called Eisenwerth . In 1960 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. with his dissertation on the building history of the St. Mauritius Abbey Church in Tholey .

Professional background

His father had already shown him the way to the radio. At the end of the League of Nations administration of the Saar area , as a radio man from the very beginning at the Saarbrücken Reichsender , at the time of the semi-autonomous Saar state at Radio Saarbrücken and after the reintegration of the Saarland into the Federal Republic of Germany at the SR as an ARD institution, his father Josef Reichert sat down in his department and folk music ”for international understanding in the Saar-Lor-Lux area near the border . An example of this is the SR culture magazine “Hüben und drüben”, which was expressly intended to overcome “national restrictions” in the sense of the Franco-German treaties .

Franz-Josef Reichert followed this trail and, after completing his studies, joined the Saarland Broadcasting Company as an editorial assistant and programmer in April 1960 . Shortly afterwards, in 1963, he was appointed head of the church radio department. Since 1966 he has also headed the choral and folk music departments as well as the local radio. In 1970 Reichert was appointed head of radio broadcasting and head of the main broadcasting and production department. Together with his friend and colleague at SR Fred Oberhauser , who, as long-time editor and head of the literature department, was assigned to the departments of Heimatfunk and Regional Culture, a wealth of individual programs and series that deal with history and culture developed in the years 1970–1980 , Art, literature and music from the Saar-Lor-Lux region, including the neighboring Rhineland-Palatinate and Alsace. In 1979 the directorship placed the order to set up an independent regional radio program. In the course of these efforts, SR 3 Saarlandwelle went on air as a full program in 1980 , Reichert became coordinator and later wave chief of the new home program.

In 1978 launched the Saarland dialect competition (a precursor of today's Saarland dialect price ) of the then "Saar Bank" (now Bank 1 Saar ) and SR 3 Saarland wave accompanied Reichert and his department in each year of the new edition with several broadcasts. The jury included a. Edith Braun and Alfred Gulden , who at the time also obtained a selection of the contributions from the first ten years in book form.

In 1996 the Board of Directors of the SR gave him responsibility for the entire SR radio as program director . Reichert belonged to the Saarland Journalists' Association and, during his active time, to the Saar State Press Conference . He retired at the end of May 1999.

Cultural engagement

During his studies, Reichert held the office of AStA cultural advisor. He took part in the work of the traditional Saarländischer Kulturkreis eV , whose chairman he was 1973-1996. At the suggestion of the board, a total of eleven local parlors were set up in Saarland cities and communities during this time . According to an article by Fred Oberhauser in Saarheimat magazine, the idea originally came from Baden-Württemberg. The memory of regionally significant people or events is preserved, mostly in the rooms of a local restaurant, by exhibiting pictures, documents or objects. The oldest parlor in Wadgassen was set up as a Kirschwengstube in memory of Johannes Kirschweng , while the youngest in Homburg , the Hambacher Stube, commemorates the bourgeois opposition of the early 19th century to the restoration efforts of the nobility. Together with Karl August Schleiden , Reichert published the eleven-volume complete edition of the works of the Saarland writer Johannes Kirschweng .

In 2002 Reichert initiated a historically oriented working group at the VHS Kleinblittersdorf . Less than a year later, the newly founded Historical Association Saar-Blies (HVSB) eV elected its first board. He was chairman himself until 2009 and was honorary chairman until his death. This was followed by numerous publications on cultural-historical topics under the title “News from the HVSB” in the Kleinblittersdorfer Nachrichten from 2003–2009. Reichert was a board member of the historical association for the Saar area from 1977 to 1980 and chairman of the Saarland State Monument Council from 1978 to 1996.

Publications

• The building history of the Benedictine Abbey Tholey ; Publications of the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Vol. 3; Saarbrücken: Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, 1961; ISBN 978-3-923877-03-4
• Kirschweng, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977,ISBN 3-428-00192-3, p. 677 f. ( Digitized version ).
• The Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius in Tholey ; Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 321; Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, 1987
• SR 3 Saarlandwelle - ARD's first regional full program , with a chronicle of the first five years 1979–1983; in: Broadcasting as a cultural task, essays and thoughts on the term of office of Prof. Dr. Hubert Rohde (1978–1988); SR press office, Saarbrücken 1988, pp. 123-134.
• The Saarland - culture yesterday and today in: Germany - Portrait of a Nation, Volume VIII, pp. 424–428; Bertelsmann Lexikothek Verlag GmbH; Gütersloh 1986; ISBN 3-570-08718-2
• Mein Dillingen, notes and memories from A – Z, with illustrations by Karl Michaely ; City of Dillingen / Saar, Krüger Druck + Verlag GmbH; 1988
• The Benedictine Abbey of Tholey , home parlors in Saarland ; in: The Saarland Book; 5th edition, Minerva-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1990; ISBN 3-477-00066-8
• Fading Wise Men - Louis Pinck and the folk song in Lorraine ; in: Grenzenlos - Historical magazine of the Erwin-von-Steinbach-Stiftung Frankfurt am Main; Volume 2/2001, pp. 126-136; Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Saarbrücken 2001; ISBN 3-930843-68-4 ; ISSN  1439-4758
• St. Cuno - a forgotten saint of our region ; Association for local history in the district of Birkenfeld , communications, 75th year, pp. 41–70; 2001
• Morbach traces in Kleinblittersdorf - about the Mettler art workshop , In: Die Hott; Morbacher booklets on past and present; 24th year, March 2006
• The Wintringer Chapel In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, LV - 2007 of the historical association for the Saar region, Saarbrücken 2008, pp. 66–79

Awards

• Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Officer's Cross ) October 17, 1974
• Saarland Order of Merit June 27, 1989
• Louis Pinck Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS December 7, 1989

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz-Josef Reichert in the catalog of the German National Library
• A brief overview of the architectural history of Tholey Abbey Church
• Cuno von Pfullingen, Elekt von Trier - The survival of a saint (PDF; 2.3 MB) in: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch; Trier City Library, Association of the Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch (publisher); 42nd year 2002, pp. 47-84
• Melusine , Literary Society Saar-Lor-Lux-Elsass eV in conversation with Franz-Josef Reichert (PDF; 819 kB) 2007
• Saarland dialect library
• Chronicle of the ARD: on the death of Franz-Josef Reichert

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zimmermann, Hudemann, Kuderna: Medienlandschaft Saar ; Vol. 1, p. 133. Munich 2010; ISBN 978-3-486-59170-5
2. ↑ Saarland Dialect Prize ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Language Landscapes - 10 Years of the Saarland Dialect Competition ; Saarbrücken 1989.
4. ^ Chronicle of the ARD: Franz Josef Reichert new radio director at SR
5. ^ Chronicle of the ARD: Radio director of the SR retires
6. ^ Staerk, Dieter (Ed.): Das Saarlandbuch ; 5th edition, pp. 293-297. Minerva-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1990; ISBN 3-477-00066-8
7. ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung : Memory of a City , On the death of Karl-August Schleiden (1928–2009) .
8. ↑ Johannes Kirschweng - Collected Works ; Association for cultural and historical work in the area of ​​Bisttal eV (publisher); 11 vols. Saarbrücken 1974–1986.
9. ↑ Historischer Verein Saar-Blies eV ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Kleinblittersdorfer Nachrichten at MTYPE Media
11. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 35 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken July 13, 1989, p. 995 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 206 kB ; accessed on June 2, 2017]).