Fritz René Allemann

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Fritz René Allemann (born March 12, 1910 in Basel ; † October 29, 1996 in Kleinrinderfeld ) was a Swiss journalist and author.

Life

He was born as the son of factory director Joseph Allemann on March 12, 1910 in Basel. After attending the mathematics and natural science high school, he studied history, economics and sociology at the University of Basel . He was then enrolled from 1930 to 1932 at the German School of Politics in Berlin as a student with Albert Salomon and Sigmund Neumann. He decided not to graduate because he had the opportunity to spend two years in South America; from 1934 to 1936 he lived in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile.

FR Allemann began his journalistic activity at the same time as he was enrolled at the University of Basel (working student) and worked as a local reporter and employee of the feature pages of the National-Zeitung Basel. After his return from South America he was promoted to deputy of the features editor, took over the film editing independently and was at the same time an employee in the foreign section.

His further career: 1941 freelancer for foreign policy at the daily newspaper Die Tat (Zurich). 1942 to 1946 London correspondent indeed . 1946 to 1947 Paris correspondent indeed . 1947 to 1949 head of the foreign editorial department for Tat in Zurich. 1949 to 1960 Germany editor of the act (as the only foreign correspondent to be a member of the editorial board), only based in Frankfurt a. M., then in Bonn. 1960 to 1967 moved to Berlin in the same capacity; There also co-editor until 1964 of the magazine The Month . Since 1967 freelance editorial staff under a fixed contract for the deed specifically for non-European issues, the Iberian countries as well as Central and Latin America. 1964 to 1970 worked for the Swiss weekly newspaper Die Weltwoche . 1966 Chairman of the Foreign Press in Berlin e. V. and a frequent guest on Werner Höfer's TV show “ Internationaler Frühschoppen ”. 1971 visiting professor for recent German history in Iowa City / USA. This visiting professorship was followed by a seven-month drive through Mexico and Central and South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile).

In the next few years further trips to Central and South America followed and several times a year to Spain and Portugal.

In addition to his journalistic work, FR Allemann wrote many books. The main topics of his books were current German politics as well as travel reports and guides about the Iberian Peninsula . The title of his book Bonn is not Weimar became a catchphrase; In this book from 1956 he objectively pays tribute to the political life in the Federal Republic of that time.

In 1969 FR Allemann moved to Kleinrinderfeld in Lower Franconia . He ended his journalistic activities in 1994. He died on October 29, 1996 at his place of residence.

Works

  • Nations in the making. Impressions and results of a trip to the Balkans and the Near East . Publishing house for politics and society, Würzburg 1955
  • Bonn is not Weimar . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1956; New edition: RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-89501-965-8
  • Fidel Castro . The beard revolution . Rütten & Loening, Hamburg 1961
  • Between stability and crisis. Stages of German Politics 1955–1963 . Piper, Munich 1963
  • 25 times Switzerland . Piper, Munich 1965; 4th, revised. A. Switzerland 26 times , ibid. 1985
  • 8 times Portugal . Piper, Munich 1971, revised and supplemented new edition 1977
  • Power and impotence of the guerrillas . Piper, Munich 1974
  • Spain (with Juan Goytisolo ). Bucher, Lucerne 1978
  • Portugal (with Gustav Adolf Himmel). Bucher, Lucerne 1979
  • Catalonia and Andorra (with Xenia v. Bahder). Art travel guide, DuMont, Cologne 1980
  • Algarve, Lisbon (with Jochen Faget and Heinrich Jaenecke ). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1987

FR Allemann wrote regularly for the following German newspapers: Kieler Nachrichten , Hannoversche Allgemeine , Neue Westfälische (Bielefeld), Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , Rhein-Zeitung (Koblenz), Mannheimer Morgen , Badische Zeitung (Freiburg), Main-Echo (Aschaffenburg), Nürnberger Zeitung , Bremer Nachrichten as well as for the Salzburger Nachrichten and Het Parool (Amsterdam) and later other Swiss newspapers.

In 1972 FR Allemann received the Culture Prize of the Canton of Solothurn (Switzerland), in 1985 the Oertli Foundation Prize for “Rediscovering Swiss Diversity”, which referred to his book 25 times Switzerland . In 1985 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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SURNAME Allemann, Fritz René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1996
Place of death Small cattle field