Gabriel Heim

Gabriel Heim (2016)

Gabriel Heim (born November 19, 1950 in Zurich ) is a Swiss publicist, author and film director.

Life

After graduating from high school, Heim studied history and journalism at the University of Zurich . 1974 to 1978 he studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich with a degree in television journalism and documentary film. He later participated in the founding of "orkus-film, Munich". Heim worked as a producer and author of documentaries and reports on behalf of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and other ARD broadcasters. From 1985 he was editor and travel correspondent for Swiss television in Zurich. In 1992 he worked as a department head, television in the field of economic and social policy at Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne. From 1996 he was head of program management, in 2001 Heim was program director of WDR television . During his tenure, the first program controlling of an ARD broadcaster was set up at WDR. A. Developed the programs " Zimmer Frei " and " Hart aber fair ". In 2003 Heim was elected founding director of rbb television by the Broadcasting Council of Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg . In this role, he was also responsible for the merger of the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) and the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (orb) to form rbb-Fernsehen (broadcast started on February 29, 2004). In 2008 Heim left the rbb to work again as a freelance writer and director. Heim has lived and worked in Basel since 2012.

Works

Film documentaries (from 2009)

• "Transit Berlin - Homeless Jews in the Zero Hour" (D 2009)
• "From Hell to Hope" (D / USA 2009)
• "Kiss me - I am Jewish" (D 2011)
• "Men's worlds according to the timetable" (CH 2014)
• "End of the war! May 8, 1945 in Switzerland" (CH 2015)
• "Countdown in the base tunnel" (CH 2016)
• "We were the Tschinggeli, young Italian women in the post-war period" (CH 2016)
• "Spring of Revolts: Memories of May 68" (CH 2018)

Publications

• "I don't want a blueberry cake, I just want out. A mother's love in letters" (Quadriga Verlag, Berlin 2013)
• "Stay healthy and try to save your mother" (radio documentary D / CH 2012)
• "Angekummen in Berlin", the forgotten shtetels of the hour zero (radio documentary D 2010)
• "Last anchor harbor basin II - report of an odyssey in times of blackout" (radio documentary SRF Kultur 2018)
• "This side of the border - life stories from the files of the Aliens Police" (Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel / from March 2019)

Projects

• The festival for science and film "science and fiction", since 2016 in Basel.
• Theme week in search of traces: theater - conversation - reading in the Philosophicum / Basel 2016
• magnet basel - 5 exhibitions on the migration history of the city of Basel 1917–1960 / Basel 2017

Web links

• Gabriel Heim at the publishing house Bastei Lübbe
• Interview with Gabriel Heim on the learning from history portal

Remarks

1. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7899/244272
2. ↑ http://www.kleinreport.ch/haben/gabriel-heim-neuer-fernsehdirektor-rundfunk-berlin-brandenburg-56960/