Georg Honigmann (journalist)

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Georg Friedrich Wolfgang Honigmann (born October 6, 1903 in Wiesbaden , † November 4, 1984 in Weimar ) was a German journalist .

Life

Honigmann was the son of the Jewish doctor (and later professor in Gießen ) Georg Honigmann . After graduating from the Odenwald School , he studied philosophy and German in Berlin , Breslau , Prague and Giessen from 1923 to 1927 . In casting, he was in 1929 with a thesis on the social and political ideas in the world of Georg Büchner Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a journalist in Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf , and until 1933 as a correspondent for the Vossische Zeitung in Berlin.

After the National Socialists came to power , Honigmann emigrated to London in 1933 , where he worked as a freelance journalist and editor for the Exchange Telegraph Co. and head of Reuters' European Service until 1946 . After the end of the war, he returned to Berlin in May 1946 at the request of the British Control Commission for Germany , where he soon switched to the Soviet sector. There he first wrote for the daily Rundschau and from February 1947 until it was discontinued in February 1948, he was the license holder and editor of the daily newspaper Berlin am Mittag together with Ewald Mendel and Emil Crüger . In 1948/49 he worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung , and from 1949 to 1953 as editor-in-chief of BZ am Abend .

In 1953, Honigmann moved to DEFA , where until the end of 1962 he was in charge of the production of the short film series Das Stacheltier , which was shot every two weeks for cinema use and satirically dealt with everyday life in the GDR and developments in the FRG.

From 1963 to 1968, Honigmann was director of the East Berlin cabaret Die Distel ; then he was a freelance author and wrote political non-fiction books.

In exile in England, Honigmann married his first wife, Ruth, whom he already knew from the Odenwald School. While in exile in London he met his second wife Lizzy (Alice Kohlmann 1910–1991), who was married to Kim Philby from 1934 to 1946 . In the GDR, Lizzy Honigmann worked as a dubbing director for DEFA. The two married in Berlin and their daughter Barbara Honigmann emerged from the marriage . In his third marriage, Honigmann was married to the singer and actress Gisela May (who also took part in his "Stacheltier" films), and his fourth marriage was to the art historian Liselotte Honigmann-Zinserling .

In the GDR, Honigmann was honored with the Franz Mehring badge of honor , twice with the Heinrich Greif Prize and, in 1963, with the Silver Laurel of the German TV broadcaster .

His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Works

Book publications:

  • Meta Sauerbier's chat . National Front People’s Election Committee, Berlin 1954 (illustrated by Elizabeth Shaw )
  • (with Hans Harnisch and Eva Seemann ) Pecked by the barbed animal ... Henschel, Berlin 1960 (illustrated by Wilmar Riegenring )
  • Chief instructs or the case of William Randolph Hearst . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1972 (7th expanded edition 1984)
  • Capital crimes or the case of Privy Councilor Hugenberg . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1976

Films (as author):

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Grebner: The telegraph. LIT Verlag Münster, 2002, ISBN 978-3-8258-4540-7 , p. 182. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Barbara Honigmann: A chapter from my life . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-20531-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Honigmann, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honigmann, Georg Friedrich Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1984
Place of death Weimar