Goetz Bergander

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Goetz Bergander (pseudonym: Gottfried Paulsen ) (born February 12, 1927 in Dresden ; † May 16, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German journalist .

Life

Bergander lived with his parents and two younger siblings in Langebrück and from 1936 in Dresden, where his father was the manager of the Bramsch yeast factory . From 1937 he attended the Kreuzschule and was drafted as an air force helper in February 1943 .

He first studied at the Dresden Art Academy . After moving to West Berlin in 1949, he studied art history and journalism at the Free University of Berlin .

Bergander worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and radio stations. From 1961 to 1991 he was editor and commentator responsible for East-West issues, later for contemporary history and security policy, at the broadcaster Free Berlin in the political department under the name Gottfried Paulsen.

Publications

Gravestone in the Steglitz cemetery
  • with Hermann Hartung: What do the youth of the Soviet zone read? ; 1957
  • Berlin, Symphony in Colors ; Staneck, 1964
  • Dresden in the air war ; 1977, 2nd revised. and exp. 1994 edition, ISBN 3-412-10193-1
  • Dresden in the air war. Prehistory - destruction - consequences ; Flechsig, Würzburg 1998. ISBN 3-88189-239-7
  • Calculus and routine: Dresden's role in British-American air war planning (the lecture was given on February 6, 1995 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden at the State Office for Monument Preservation).
  • Perception of the air attacks from the perspective of the population ; In: Allied Bomb Warfare (2005), pp. 97-108.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf-Dieter Müller: The Destruction of Dresden February 13 to 15, 1945. V&R unipress, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-773-0 , p. 211. Restricted preview in the Google book search

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personal data
SURNAME Bergander, Goetz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paulsen, Gottfried (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2013
Place of death Berlin