Gerhard Bott (TV journalist)

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Gerhard Bott (born September 28, 1930 in Elmshorn ; † October 1, 2018 ) was a German journalist and author .

Life

Gerhard Bott studied social, law and political science. He completed his studies in 1954 with the first state examination in law, and in 1959 he received his doctorate. jur. He passed the second state examination in law in 1960. From 1966 to 1993, Bott was an author and editor- in - chief at NDR television . From 1975 to 1976 he was editor-in-chief and moderator of the television magazine Panorama . He also worked as a non-fiction author.

Gerhard Bott created around 30 television documentaries, including

  • Disobedience Education (1969),
  • Terror from the children's shop? (1972),
  • Corporations That Rule the World (1974),
  • Back to the atom? The end of the nuclear industry (1990).

In 1969, Bott shot the 50-minute film of the same name about anti-authoritarian children's shops for NDR television (first broadcast on December 1, 1969 at 10:00 p.m.). One on 30 min. The shortened version ( FWU ; 16 mm) is awarded by city or state image offices. In the film "They must have something about themselves: anti-authoritarian upbringing and its consequences." Bott later shows what became of the children in the Kinderladen in adolescence shown in the first film. In the film “Terror aus dem Kinderladen” children of the first grade (a) from a common kindergarten and (b) from a children's shop are shown together: the coexistence and the different behavior of both groups of children. This elementary school class was in Frankfurt am Main .

In 1970 his non-fiction book Education for Disobedience was published. Children's shops report on the practice of anti-authoritarian education .

From 1993 Gerhard Bott was increasingly engaged in cultural studies research in the areas of the sociology of religion and the theology of domination with a focus on prehistoric and early history.

In March 2009, Books on Demand (BoD) published his cultural studies book The Invention of the Gods: Essays on Political Theology ( ISBN 978-3-8370-3272-7 ).

Gerhard Bott lived in Hamburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deceased: Dr. Gerhard Bott. In: We at NDR. Staff magazine No. 136, January 2019
  2. ↑ We mourn for Gerhard Bott , daserste.ndr.de, accessed on March 9, 2019
  3. ↑ Panorama-Geschichte on daserste.ndr.de, accessed on January 28, 2011
  4. ↑ Chaos overcome Der Spiegel 3/1972 of January 10, 1972 page 103, accessed on January 28, 2011 on Spiegel Online
  5. ^ Catalog of the AV Media Center of the City of Mainz, Peterstr. 3, 55116 Mainz
  6. ↑ Gerhard Bott (ed.): Education for disobedience. Children's shops report on the practice of anti-authoritarian education. Frankfurt: March publishing house, 1970. (Kinderladen Stuttgart; Kinderschule Frankfurt; Sozialistischer Kinderladen Berlin Kreuzberg).
personal data
SURNAME Bott, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH 1st October 2018