Heinz Ritter (journalist)
Heinz Ritter (born September 30, 1927 in Berlin ; † July 25, 2015 there ) was a German journalist and theater and film critic , and from 1970 also Berlin cultural correspondent for Deutschlandfunk in Cologne.
life and work
Ritter grew up in Berlin and attended the Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem there . In 1943, like countless students born in 1927, he became an air force helper in the flak . When he returned from brief English captivity in November 1945, he was accepted back into his old school class despite the school year already underway, although the number of pupils had decimated considerably, and he was able to do his Abitur in 1947.
Ritter began to study theater studies at the Free University of Berlin , but went into practice as early as 1948 as a trainee in the culture department of the social democratic Berlin " Telegraf ", which was headed by Arno Scholz and under the license of Annedore Leber , the widow of the resistance fighter Julius Leber , and the former Reichstag President Paul Löbe from 1946 onwards was the newspaper with the highest circulation in Berlin for several years. From 1957, Ritter headed the features editorial team of the Berlin daily “ Der Abend ”, which, contrary to its title, appeared at noon. In times without the new, fast online media, this was a great advantage: Heinz Ritter's theater reviews of the previous evening's premieres appeared in the next day's newspaper, while the competition from West Berlin newspapers was still working on making up their paper for the next morning . In 1970, Ritter became Berlin's cultural correspondent for Deutschlandfunk in Cologne and reported on the extensive cultural life of Berlin until 2003: theater premieres, festival weeks, film festivals, changes of director and staff quarrels. At the same time, he remained loyal to the Berlin "Abend" until it was discontinued in 1981, you could hear him in the " Galerie des Theater " of the SFB and see his premiere reports in the " Berliner Abendschau ". For several years he was chairman of the Association of German Critics and from 1973 to 1979 he was a member and speaker of the Critics' Jury for the Berlin Theatertreffen . In this function he traveled to German-speaking theaters including Austria and Switzerland to select the stages to be invited.
Heinz Ritter's extensive collection of reviews, radio reports, portraits and interviews with artists was taken over by the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation .
Private
Ritter was married to the film and theater critic Inge Bongers-Ritter for the second time .
Heinz Ritter (birth name Heinz-Ullrich Ritter) was the son of the publisher Wilhelm Ritter , who from the beginning of the 1930s a. a. published the annual “ Artist Almanac for Stage and Film ”.
His younger brother was the historian and political scientist Gerhard A. Ritter .
Heinz Ritter died at the age of 87 in his hometown and was buried in the local forest cemetery in Dahlem (field 001-696).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice , accessed on September 24, 2019
- ↑ http://theaterarchive.iti-germany.de/index.php?id=242
- ^ Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Collection of Theater, Music, Literature and Artistica, Head of Collection Bärbel Reissmann, Hans-Poelzig-Str. 20, 13587 Berlin
- ↑ https://www.buchkunst-usedom.de/store/p3259/Ton_Film-Führer_%3A_Künstler-Almanach_für_Bühne_und_Film_-_Ausgabe_1936_%2F_37..html
- ↑ https://www.zvab.com/buch-suchen/titel/kuenstler-almanach-fuer-buehne/autor/wilhelm-ritter/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ritter, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ritter, Heinz-Ullrich (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, theater and film critic and features editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 2015 |
| Place of death | Berlin |