Herbert Kolbe

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Herbert Kolbe (March 6, 1942 - April 6, 2014 ) was a German journalist , author and recipient of the Theodor Wolff Prize . From January 1, 1981 to December 31, 2006 he was editor-in-chief of the Emder Zeitung in Emden .

Career

Kolbe began his journalistic career in 1967. After stints at other publishing houses, the editor came to the Neue Ruhr Zeitung in Duisburg in the 1970s . In 1979 he received the Theodor Wolff Prize for a report on a harvest festival .

On January 1, 1981, he took over the post of editor-in-chief of the East Frisian daily Emder Zeitung. He redesigned the paper according to the then ultra-modern standards, which were later adopted by other daily newspapers. In terms of content, Kolbe insisted on consistently putting local events next to national events on the first page of the paper - until then it was customary for local newspapers to have either only local or national topics on the front page. For this purpose, the Emder Zeitung terminated the previously existing cooperation with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung and thus became a full newspaper , one of the smallest in Germany. Further upheavals that were driven by Kolbe were the continuous fluttering in the entire editorial part of the paper and the increased use of images and graphic elements. In the technical field, the introduction of electronic full-page make-up in photo typesetting should also be mentioned.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Kolbe trained a number of journalists at Emder Zeitung who later made careers in national media. These include (as of April 2012) Uwe Vetterick (editor-in-chief of the Sächsische Zeitung ), Jürgen Marks (deputy editor-in-chief of the Augsburger Allgemeine ), the Tagesspiegel author and former Brussels dpa correspondent and book author Roland Siegloff and the Paris dpa correspondent Ralf E. . Kruger. Under Kolbe the newspaper was a cooperation partner of the Henri Nannen School .

From 1991 to 2001 Kolbe was a member of the jury for the Theodor Wolff Prize. During his 26-year tenure at Emder Zeitung, two EZ editors who had also completed their traineeships there won this journalist award themselves.

Kolbe's books have arisen twice from journalistic activities. In the first case it was a series of articles about the first two post-war years in Emden, which he expanded into a book. To this end, Kolbe interviewed many contemporary witnesses who were still living at the time and thus made a contribution to the history of Emden as part of oral history . The book was also cited in later academic works, such as Inge Lüpke-Müller's dissertation on the democratization process in East Friesland after the Second World War. The second case is a critical appraisal of the term of office of the former Lord Mayor of Emden Alwin Brinkmann , who at the time of his departure in 2011 was the longest serving Lord Mayor of Lower Saxony with 25 years in office.

Kolbe died on April 6, 2014 after a brief, serious illness at the age of 72.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prize winners 1962–1997 ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Anniversary supplement for the 100th anniversary of the Emder Zeitung, November 18, 2000, p. 8/9.
  3. ^ Roland Siegloff: Journey to the final frontiers. 100 days of free travel through Fortress Europe , 2011, ISBN 978-3-86712-051-7
  4. ↑ Roland Siegloff, Thierry Monasse: In the name of Route 66 - Three journeys in Europe , 2013, ISBN 978-3-943622-04-1
  5. ^ Inge Lüpke-Müller: A region in political upheaval. The democratization process in East Frisia after the Second World War (treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, Volume 77), Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-11-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Kolbe, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1942
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2014