Gerhard Rein (journalist)

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Gerhard Rein (born October 25, 1936 in Kulm , West Prussia ) is a German journalist.

Life

After fleeing West Prussia, Gerhard Rein lived with his mother and siblings in Achim from 1945 , where he also graduated from school. After a commercial apprenticeship in Bremen, he was an intern at the Weser-Kurier and worked as a journalist for the Achimer Kreisblatt , the Ostbremer Rundschau and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hanover . In 1961 he began working as an editor in the Church and Society department of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR). He later took over the management of this department. Some of the series of programs he edited (discussions, interviews, presentations) were later published in book form. From 1982 to 1990 he was a correspondent for the SDR in the GDR. The focus of his reporting was the culture and the role of the church in the GDR. He had many contacts with members of the peace, environmental and opposition movement that was forming in the vicinity of the Evangelical Church and reported with “distance to the powerful, to the nomenklatura, but not to those who the system had marginalized and who were silent wanted to do ". Its in the GDR in the turnaround time he published lessons learned in 1989 and 1990 as an author and editor of several books. From 1992 to the end of August 1997 he reported as a radio correspondent for ARD from southern Africa (Studio Johannesburg ). He was then radio correspondent for the SDR until 2001 and from October 1998 for the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) in Berlin.

In 2006 he learned that his Jewish father died in March 1945 in the Ebensee concentration camp in Upper Austria under unexplained circumstances. Gerhard Rein is a member of the Pankower Peace Circle . He lives with his wife in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Gerhard Rein (Ed.): Persuasion for Christmas. Ehrenwirth, Munich 1968, ISBN 978-3-431-01281-1 , p. 216 .
  • Gerhard Rein (Ed.): Why I have changed. Personal reports from Heinrich Albertz, Jean Améry and others . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-7831-0370-3 , pp. 109 .
  • Heinrich Albertz , Gerhard Rein (collaborator): Lived against it - from the difficulties of being a political Christian: Conversations with Gerhard Rein . 1st edition. Rowohlt (rororo aktuell), Reinbek near Hamburg 1976, ISBN 978-3-499-14001-3 , p. 123 .
  • Gerhard Rein (Hrsg.): The opposition in the GDR. Designs for a different socialism . Wichern, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88981-044-6 , pp. 239 .
  • Gerhard Rein: The Protestant Revolution 1987-1990. A German reading book . 1st edition. Wichern, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-88981-046-5 , pp. 445 .
  • Gerhard Rein: On the border between West and East. Texts, notes and conversations from a correspondent . 1st edition. Quintus, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945256-92-3 , pp. 304 .
  • (Ed.): Tuesday conversations with contemporaries . Stuttgart: Kreuz-Verlag, 1976 ISBN 978-3-7831-0482-0

literature

  • Gerhard Rein: A fine line. Correspondent experience in South Africa and the GDR . In: the overview. Journal for ecumenical encounters and international cooperation . No. 4 , 2007, p. 14 ( online [accessed June 23, 2017]).
  • Joachim Garstecki: Peace and a speech on the sidelines of the Kirchentag . In: The paper . tape 20 , no. 15 , 2017 ( online [accessed July 24, 2017]).

Web links

Individual evidence and note

  1. ↑ Marianne Subklew-Jeutner: The Pankower Peace Circle. History of an East Berlin group within the Evangelical Churches in the GDR 1981-1989 . 1st edition. Der Andere Verlag, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-89959-145-3 , 9.2., P. 402 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Rein: Beyond Lisewo or In Search of My Father . In: On the border between West and East . Quintus, Berlin 2017, p. 297-301 .
  3. ↑ New edition 2017 at Rowohlt Repertoire
personal data
SURNAME Rein, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulm , West Prussia