Friedhelm Mönter
Friedhelm Mönter (born November 22, 1946 in Duisburg , † February 18, 2009 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist .
Life
education and profession
After elementary school Mönter did a commercial apprenticeship in retail. In order to escape military service, he then began training as a nurse, which he completed with the state examination in major nursing at the University Hospital Düsseldorf . In 1971 Mönter moved to Hamburg because of love, initially working in the record industry. In 1976 and 1977 he attended the vocational school and the technical college for social pedagogy Wallstraße. On his second educational path, he first made the secondary school leaving certificate and then the technical college entrance qualification . He then studied at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics and the University of Applied Sciences for Libraries. During his studies Mönter wrote for student newspapers, the Hamburg scene and the Hamburger Morgenpost as a theater critic and cultural reporter.
Mönter came to radio in September 1980. With the establishment of the public local radio station NDR 90.3 in January 1981 (then NDR Hamburg-Welle), Mönter became a theater critic and cultural reporter on the culture department. Until 2009 he also moderated the shows Abendjournal , Radiobasar , The Most Beautiful from Operetta, Musical and Film and the NDR 90.3 Kulturtreff . In the more than 25 years of his work he has become the defining voice of NDR 90.3. He was best known for his radio talk shows with Yehudi Menuhin , Marianne Hoppe , Maria Wimmer , Ida Ehre , Friedrich Schütter , Bernhard Minetti , Jürgen Flimm , Brigitte Mira , Evelyn Künneke , Helen Vita , Corny Littmann , Friedrich Schirmer , Simone Young , John Neumeier , Gwyneth Jones , Jessye Norman, and Grace Bumbry . Since May 1986 he has moderated and designed the program Sonntakte on NDR 90.3 regularly , in which he presented the Hamburg theater, musical and operetta scene well over four hundred times. These included galas for the 80th and 85th birthday of Heidi Kabel , for the 80th birthday of Will Quadflieg and Ilse Werner , which were also broadcast on NDR television . In total, Mönter moderated over 3000 programs on NDR 90.3. He also worked regularly as a moderator and program designer at events and galas.
At the beginning of the 1990s Mönter became known to a broad television audience as "Mr. Friedhelm" in the private room of the Schmidt Midnight Show. Here he interviewed prominent contemporaries such as Harald Juhnke , Ulrich Wildgruber , Volker Lechtenbrink , Heidi Kabel and Witta Pohl . His application for the directorship of the Hamburg dialect theater Ohnsorg-Theater was unsuccessful in 1995. In 1999 he sang with numerous other Hamburg celebrities, including a. Heidi Kabel, Udo Lindenberg , Inga Rumpf , Rolf Zuckowski , Jan Fedder and Carlo von Tiedemann as one of the Hamburg Allstars introduced the unofficial hymn of the city of Hamburg The city with its nose in the wind by Edith Jeske and Martin Lingnau .
Private life, religion, honorary positions
Mönter had lived with his partner Frank, a gardener, and the dog Pina on the Uhlenhorst in Hamburg since 2004 .
He had never perceived being gay and Catholic as a conflict, but with growing political awareness the uneasiness at the positions of the Roman Catholic Church grew . He did not feel wanted in this community and withdrew. Professionally, however, he repeatedly worked on church issues. The then AIDS - Pastor Rainer Jarchow encouraged him to church again to enter and so Mönter was Protestant.
Mönter was an honorary member of the Hamburger Alsterspatzen and in 2002 was awarded the Silver Portuguese by the Central Committee of Hamburg Citizens' Associations for his media services to culture in the city of Hamburg. Mönter died on February 18, 2009 as a result of a serious illness in a Hamburg clinic. His grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Misha Leuschen: Friedhelm Mönter: Why he changed his denomination - "I wanted to be Pope" , Hamburger Abendblatt, November 20, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mönter, Friedhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 2009 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |