Gert Kalow
Gert Kalow (born August 20, 1921 in Cottbus ; † August 11, 1991 in Heidelberg ) was a German writer and publicist .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1939, Kalow first had to do labor service before he was called up for military service in the Wehrmacht . After returning from captivity , he studied philosophy , sociology , music and literature , first in Jena , then in Hamburg and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate.
From 1950 Kalow worked as a freelance journalist and writer. He wrote radio plays, features, radio essays and was involved in documentaries. Kalow was among the journalists who in the post-war period the cinema very critical of. In his contribution Cinema as the Fall of Man in 1952, he asked: "When does someone get up and tear us back from this hellhole of massification, destruction, de-realization, these robot factories, these gas chambers of the soul?"
1954 brought him to the Ulm School of Design as a lecturer and head of the “Information” department; In 1960/61 he was chairman of the rectorate board there. In 1963 he went to the Hessischer Rundfunk as an editor ; from 1964 until his retirement in 1986 he headed the influential radio evening studio on this station.
From 1974 he was also a lecturer at the Offenbach University of Design , which appointed him honorary professor in 1977 . His best-known book is titled Hitler, the German Trauma (1967/1974).
Kalow lived in Heidelberg for many years. He had taken up residence in the bridge towers of the Old Bridge in Heidelberg . Here he regularly received guests for the literary and political discourse.
Kalow found his final resting place in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof . His grave is in the Abbot. D.
Works (selection)
- Cinema as the Fall of Man , in: The new order 6 (1952), pp. 273–274
- Poetry is message. Oral tradition in prehistory and present. Munich; Zurich: Piper, 1975. ISBN 3-492-02146-8 .
- Hitler, the German trauma. Piper, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-492-00414-8 .
literature
- Jürgen Kniep: “No youth approval!”. Film censorship in West Germany 1949-1990. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0638-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quote from Jürgen Kniep: No youth release! , P. 26
- ^ Heidelberg City Archives
- ^ Gert Kalow: Living in the old bridge gate. In: Helmut Prückner (Ed.) The old bridge in Heidelberg . Heidelberg. Braus, 1988. pp. 161-164.
- ↑ Landscape and Forestry Office, Heidelberg Cemetery Office Steigerweg 25
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kalow, Gert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | cottbus |
DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1991 |
Place of death | Heidelberg |