Gert von Paczensky

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Gert Franz-Joseph von Paczensky and Tenczin (born August 21, 1925 in Hausneindorf ; † August 1, 2014 in Cologne ) was a German journalist , writer and gastronomy critic .

Life

After attending school and gaining a war school leaving certificate, Gert von Paczensky was a soldier in the air intelligence service from 1942 to 1945 . In 1946 he began his journalistic activities as a reporter for the German General News Agency (DANA) in Stuttgart, later became editor of the DANA headquarters in Bad Nauheim and then headed the DANA city service in Berlin. From 1947 on he worked for Die Welt (correspondent in London 1949–1952, in Paris until 1957, then head of the “Foreign Policy” department). Since then, Paczensky has been one of the few West German journalists, along with Bernt Engelmann , who took a positive position on the Algerian War of Independence and did not represent the widespread pro-French position.

From 1960 Paczensky worked for the NDR , where he founded the television magazine " Panorama " in 1961 together with Rüdiger Proske . Because of numerous reports critical of the government in this program (e.g. about Franz Josef Strauss in connection with the Fibag affair and the Spiegel affair ), his contract with NDR was no longer extended in 1963.

Paczensky was deputy editor-in-chief of Stern in 1963/1964 . At the end of 1965, together with Bernt Engelmann, he founded a publishing house in Hamburg , in which the magazine Deutsches Panorama appeared from the beginning of 1966 (discontinued in 1967 due to financial problems). Paczensky was editor-in-chief at Radio Bremen for a short time in 1969/1970 and then again since 1973 , where he also worked temporarily as a co-host on the talk show 3 to 9 . From March 1972 to August 1973 he was head of the “Fundamental Issues, Internal Affairs and Justice” section of the Federal Press Office , where Conrad Ahlers had appointed him temporarily . At the Saarbrücken congress of the Association of German Writers (VS) he was elected to the federal executive board, to which he was a member from 1984 to 1987.

Since 1950 he has dealt with problems in the “Third World” in articles, radio broadcasts, television films and books, and in the 1970s in particular he wrote several books that dealt critically with colonialism and economic exploitation . In 1994 he successfully sued the Hamburg Higher Regional Court against the characterization as a "left anti-Semite" by the publicist Henryk M. Broder .

Paczensky also wrote popular and influential restaurant reviews. As an employee of the magazine eat & drink , he reported for several decades from the top German and French gastronomy and campaigned for the improvement of the dining culture in German countries. In this phase he - according to a connoisseur of the scene - "elevated restaurant criticism to fine art". His books on cognac and champagne became standard works internationally. Since 1985 he was an honorary citizen of the city of Cognac . He was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Grave Melaten Cemetery

Private

From 1947 to 1969 he was married to the journalist Susanne von Paczensky (née Czapski). The couple had two children. Their daughter, Carola von Paczensky, is a lawyer. From 2008 to 2010 she was State Councilor in Hamburg . Since 1975 he was married to the writer Anna Dünnebier , with whom he had lived in Cologne since 1989. He died there shortly before his 89th birthday.

Gert von Paczensky was buried on August 21, 2014 at the Melaten cemetery (Lit. K No. 225) in the grave of his wife's family.

Works

  • 1970 - The whites come. The real story of colonialism . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg, ISBN 3-455-05900-7 (later by Hädecke, Weil der Stadt ISBN 3-7750-3418-8 , revised new edition as Fischer paperback no. 3418 under the title: White rule. A history of Colonialism . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-23418-2 ).
  • 1971 - Our people at the Jordan? A contribution to the history of the Israel conflict . In: Viewpoints . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-455-05901-5 (later edition under the title: Faustrecht am Jordan? On the development of the Arab-Israeli conflict . Erdmann, Tübingen and Basel 1978, ISBN 3-7711-0295-2 ) .
  • 1971 - Local appointment Thailand. What is the United Nations Agricultural Organization (FAO) doing? In: Materials on the world food situation. Volume 11, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Bonn ( DNB 364451750 ).
  • 1972 - How Much Money for the Third World? Development aid calculated critically. In: Problem No. 2, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Bonn ( DNB 760481423 ).
  • 1976 - Feinschmecker's book of complaints. Breviary against the sins of gastronomy In: rororo-Sachbuch rororo 6994, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg, ISBN 3-499-16991-6 .
  • 1980 - Via television. Ammunition against the public law conspiracy . In: Edition Guido Baumann , Bucher, Lucerne and Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-88132-199-3 .
  • 1981 - Current Bremen ABC . (Together with Anna Dünnebier), Atelier am Bauernhaus, Fischerhude, ISBN 3-88132-199-3 .
  • 1982 - The oil conspiracy. From the art of excluding ourselves and others . Kösel, Munich, ISBN 3-466-11023-8 (paperback edition as Fischer-Taschenbuch 4325, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-24325-4 ).
  • 1984 - Nefertiti wants to go home. Europe - treasure house of the «third world» . (Together with Herbert Ganselmayr), Bertelsmann, Munich, ISBN 3-570-03587-5 .
  • 1984 - Cognac (photos by Jürgen D. Schmidt, illustrations by Jean-Pierre Haeberlin). Hädecke, Weil der Stadt, ISBN 3-7750-0129-8 (is now considered the general German-language standard book on the subject of "Cognac").
  • 1987 - Champagne (photos by Jürgen D. Schmidt, illustrations by Jean-Pierre Haeberlin). Hädecke, Weil der Stadt, ISBN 3-7750-0168-9 (is now considered the general German-language standard book on the subject of "Champagne").
  • 1991 - Expensive blessing. Christian mission and colonialism. What has been broken in the name of Christ . Knaus, Munich, ISBN 3-8135-2255-5 ; Paperback edition as Goldmann Taschenbuch 12506, Goldmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-442-12506-5 ; reissued under the title: Crimes in the Name of Christ. Mission and Colonialism , Orbis, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-572-01177-9 .
  • 1994 - Empty pots, full pots. The cultural history of eating and drinking . (Together with Anna Dünnebier). Knaus, Munich, ISBN 3-8135-2082-X (paperback edition as Goldmann-Taschenbuch 72192, Goldmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-72192-X ).
  • 1998 - Alice Schwarzer's eventful life . (Together with Anna Dünnebier). Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne, ISBN 3-462-02735-2 .
  • 1998 - Where France Eats Best. Aquitane, between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic. Hädecke, Weil der Stadt, ISBN 3-7750-0310-X .
  • 1999 - the cultural history of eating and drinking (together with Anna Dünnebier ). Orbis, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-572-10047-X .
  • 2003 - journalist with an appetite. Panorama, food & drink and other memories . Autobiography , Hädecke, Weil der Stadt, ISBN 3-7750-0701-6 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Gert von Paczensky  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Panorama" founder Gert von Paczensky has died , DWDL, August 1, 2014
  2. ↑ Claus Leggewie: porter. The Algeria Project of the Left in Adenauer-Germany , Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88022-286-X , p. 17
  3. ↑ See Erwin Seitz: Cotta's Culinary Almanac No. 15: Germany's new hospitality . Klett-Cotta 2007, p. 91.
  4. ↑ Quoted from: Martin Eichhorn: Kulturgeschichte der "Kulturgeschichten": Typology of a literary genre . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, p. 181.
  5. ↑ Both met in the political section of the newspaper Die Welt . Since couples were not allowed in the same department, they had to resort toward feuilleton leave. See: Christina Prüver: Willy Haas: And the features section of the daily newspaper “Die Welt” . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, p. 57.
  6. ^ Obituary in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from August 1, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Paczensky, Gert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paczensky and Tenczin, Gert Franz-Joseph von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and restaurant critic
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hausneindorf
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2014
Place of death Cologne