Gunthar Lehner

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Gunthar Lehner (born November 28, 1918 in Nördlingen , † November 4, 2014 in Munich ) was a German journalist and radio director .

Life

Gunthar Lehner studied German , history , philosophy and newspaper studies in Munich and Regensburg . He began his professional career in 1946 as the editor of the news magazine The Overview . In 1948 he became editor-in-chief of the Christian news service CND, a forerunner of the Catholic news agency, which was founded after the Second World War . In the same year he was one of the founding members of the Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany (GKP). For ten years he sat on the jury of the Catholic Journalist Prize, which was first awarded in 1974 . From 1950 to 1952 he headed the political department of the weekly newspaper Michael in Düsseldorf.

In 1952 he came to Bayerischer Rundfunk as an editor in the main department for culture and education . In 1954 he started the "Association of Friends of the Catholic Academy", one of the germ cells of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria , and is therefore venerated as the academy's founding father. Due to his impulses and drive, he was accepted into the General Council, one of the Academy's advisory bodies, in the founding year 1957. For almost 30 years, from 1967 to 1998, he was a member of the Academy Management, the highest authority of the Catholic Academy. One of Gunthar Lehner's particular merits was his involvement in the foundation of the Romano Guardini Prize , which the Academy has awarded many well-known personalities since 1970. He was appointed head of church radio at Bayerischer Rundfunk, and in 1957 he became deputy editor-in-chief of the culture and education department. He joined the Bavarian Journalists' Association (BJV) in October 1958. From 1959 he headed the BR's main culture and education department and was also the deputy program director . In 1972 he took over the post of radio director, which he held until his retirement in 1982. A highlight of his tenure was the introduction of the Bayern 4 Klassik program , the first wave of classical music in Germany at the time.

Gunthar Lehner showed himself to be associated with both the GKP and the Catholic Academy as well as the BJV (which he had to leave in July 2012 for health reasons) long after his retirement. He died three weeks before his 96th birthday on November 4, 2014 in Munich.

Awards

Editing

  • In focus - the new person. Compiled from the series of the Bavarian Radio and edited by Gunthar Lehner. Lucas Cranach Verlag, Munich 1961.
  • Literature between left and right. Germany - France - USA. Horst Krüger , Paul Noack , Friedrich Heer , Armin Mohler , Camille Bourniquel, Kurt Hoffmann (= E Thema ; Volume 2). Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f grief. Gunthar Lehner has died. Bayerischer Rundfunk mourns the loss of its long-time radio director Gunthar Lehner. As the BR learned from the circle of the family, Lehner died on Tuesday at the age of 95. In: br.de. November 5, 2014, accessed July 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Lehner, Gunthar, p. 266 .
  3. ↑ a b Michaela Pilters: GKP mourns founding member Gunthar Lehner. In: gkp.de. November 2014, accessed July 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Academy mourns Gunthar Lehner. Founding father of the academy. In: kath-akademie-bayern.de. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehner, Gunthar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and radio director
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2014
Place of death Munich