Heribert Schwan

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Heribert Schwan (born December 2, 1944 in Betzdorf ) is a German journalist , writer and author of numerous television documentaries.

Life

Heribert Schwan was born in Betzdorf an der Sieg and grew up in Wallmenroth . He studied history, German and political science and did his doctorate on the radio policy of the French occupying power. He worked as a freelance television writer for Radio Bremen , Saarländischer Rundfunk and Südwestfunk before becoming editor in the Politics and Current Affairs department of Deutschlandfunk in 1974 .

In 1984, together with Werner Filmer, he received honorable recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize for The Repressed Danger: What Remains of Hitler - Neo-Nazism Today .

Schwan switched to West German Broadcasting in 1989 . He worked in the Inland program group, from 1992 to 2002 in the Culture and Science program area. The main task was the editorial responsibility for cultural features in the ARD program and on WDR television. In 1993 he also took over the ARD Kulturweltspiegel , which under his leadership became the market leader of all cultural magazines on television. Since 2004 he has been responsible for special projects in the feature area for ARD. Since 1973 Schwan has authored more than 60 television documentaries. In over 20 years at WDR he was editorially responsible for 574 programs, including the series Bilderbuch and Kulturweltspiegel. The thematic focus of his films is the history of the Third Reich and the two German states. Schwan retired in December 2009.

Heribert Schwan is the author and co-author of historical books and has published biographies on Richard von Weizsäcker , Helmut Kohl , Johannes Rau , Oskar Lafontaine , Wolfgang Schäuble , Roman Herzog and Erich Mielke, among others . The book accompanying his documentary of the same name, Der SS-Mann , was published together with Helgard Heindrichs . Josef Blösche - Life and Death of a Murderer ( Droemer- Verlag 2003). On the basis of the extraordinarily willing cooperation of the former GDR spy Lilli Pöttrich , the book Das Spinnennetz , written together with Helgard Heindrichs, was published in 2005 by Droemer Verlag . Stasi agents in the west: The secret files of the rosewood file for the ARD documentation. For the two-parter Bonner Republik (ARD, 2009) and the six-parter of the same name (WDR, Phoenix , 2009) he edited the accompanying book together with Rolf Steininger ; also Mein 9 November 1989 , which was published by Patmosverlag.

Schwan is the commissioner of the three-volume Helmut Kohl memoirs and the diary on the donation affair, which became a bestseller in 2000. In 2010, Patmosverlag published Helmut Kohl - Virtuose of Power ; Rolf Steininger is co-author. In June 2011, Schwan's biography of Chancellor's wife Hannelore Kohl followed in Heyne-Verlag , The woman at his side - life and suffering of Hannelore Kohl . Schwan thus took first place on the Stern and Focus bestseller lists in 2011. The biography of Hannelore Kohl led to a legal dispute with her two sons.

From the summer of 2014 Schwan was involved in a legal dispute with Helmut Kohl. Kohl successfully sued Schwan for the release of tapes on which work meetings from 2001 are recorded. In the opinion of the Cologne Higher Regional Court, the publication of the quotations constitutes an unlawful breach of trust.

In spring 2017, the Cologne Regional Court ruled that the book Legacy: The Kohl Protocols had seriously violated Helmut Kohl's personal rights. Schwan is also obliged to provide information about the type, scope and whereabouts of any copies of the tapes.

Audio

Books

  • The radio as an instrument of policy in the Saarland 1945-1955. Berlin 1974.
  • with Rolf Steininger: Defeated, occupied, shared. Oldenburg et al. 1979.
  • with Rolf Steininger: When the war ended. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1981.
  • with Werner Filmer: What does peace mean to me? Also a German reader. Oldenburg / Hamburg / Munich 1982.
  • with Werner Filmer: What remained of Hitler . 50 years after the seizure of power. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1983.
  • with Werner Filmer: Richard von Weizsäcker . Profiles of a man. Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1984/1989.
  • with Werner Filmer: Learn to do without. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1984.
  • with Werner Filmer: Everyday life in the other Germany. Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1985.
  • with Werner Filmer: Helmut Kohl . Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1985/1989.
  • with Werner Filmer: Man, the war is over! Contemporary witnesses remember. Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1985.
  • with Werner Filmer: Johannes Rau . Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1986.
  • with Werner Filmer: Lothar Späth . Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1987.
  • with Werner Filmer: Hans-Dietrich Genscher . Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1988.
  • with Werner Filmer: Norbert Blüm . Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1989.
  • with Werner Filmer: My mother. A German reading book. Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1989.
  • with Werner Filmer: Oskar Lafontaine . Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1990.
  • with Werner Filmer: Victims of the Wall. The Secret Logs of Death. Munich 1991.
  • with Werner Filmer: Wolfgang Schäuble . Politics as a life's work. Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1992.
  • with Werner Filmer: encounters with Richard von Weizsäcker. Munich 1993.
  • with Werner Filmer: Defeated, liberated ... contemporary witnesses remember the end of the war in 1945. Munich 1995.
  • with Werner Filmer: Roman Herzog . Munich 1996.
  • Erich Mielke . The man who was the Stasi . Munich 1997.
  • Death to the traitor. The long arm of the Stasi and the Lutz Eigendorf case . Munich 2000.
  • with Helgard Heindrichs: The SS man. Josef Blösche - Life and Death of a Murderer. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-27310-1 .
  • with Helgard Heindrichs: the spider web, Stasi agents in the west, the secret files of the rosewood file . Munich 2005.
  • with Rolf Steininger: Bonn Republic 1949–1989. Berlin 2009.
  • with Rolf Steininger: My November 9th, 1989. Düsseldorf 2009.
  • with Rolf Steininger: Helmut Kohl. Virtuoso of power. Düsseldorf 2010.
  • The woman at his side - the life and suffering of Hannelore Kohl. Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-18175-5 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from June 27 to September 11, 2011 )
  • with Tilman Jens : Legacy. The Kohl Protocols Heyne , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-20077-7 . ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from November 24th to 30th, 2014 )
  • Spies at the center of power: how the Stasi has spied on all governments since Adenauer. Heyne, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-20286-3 .

From television coverage

  • Topic of the day - The unresolved past of the Saarland - Saar History (October 22, 1975)
  • Defeated, Occupied, Divided - Germany - 1944–1949 (March 29, 1979)
  • Defeated, Occupied, Divided - Germany - 1944–1949 (April 12, 1979)
  • Three Years That Shook the World - Korean War and German Rearmament (June 19, 1980)
  • Farewell to Bonn - Renunciation of the Mandate - Lenelotte von Bothmer, SPD (October 9, 1980)
  • Interior views - The loser - Dietrich Stobbe, Governing Mayor a. D. (July 9, 1981)
  • Interior Views - The Tolerated Winner - Richard von Weizsäcker (December 23, 1981)
  • Between Fervor and Fear - The Peace Movement - Parties and the Peace Movement (April 16, 1982)
  • Between Fervor and Fear - The Peace Movement - Touchstones of the Peace Movement (April 16, 1982)
  • Between Fervor and Fear - The Peace Movement - What is the Peace Movement (April 16, 1982)
  • The Fatherland Rediscovered (June 17, 1982)
  • The Replaced Danger - What Remains of Hitler - Neo-Nazism Today (January 13, 1983)
  • Ostracized or forgotten? - Carl von Ossietzky (November 27, 1983)
  • Why I'm Still a Christian - Conversations with Politicians (December 21, 1983)
  • Foreign studio - The creeping death - chemical weapons out of control? - Effects of chemical warfare agents (April 1, 1984)
  • Election of the Federal President (May 23, 1984)
  • In Focus - The New One - Richard von Weizsäcker - Friends on Weizsäcker (May 23, 1984)
  • Inventory - Chemical Weapons - Stepchildren of Disarmament - Trailer (September 6, 1984)
  • The Chancellor - Faces of a Man - Descriptions - Encounters (November 14, 1985)
  • The Bearer of Hope - Johannes Rau - Faces of a Man (February 13, 1986)
  • Along the border (August 10, 1986)
  • Between Hate and Love - Children Report on Nazi Criminals (May 14, 1987)
  • The woman by his side - Hannelore Kohl (September 8, 1987)
  • Topics of the Day - Report from Bonn - Incident - Germany Policy in Twilight (March 17, 1989)
  • Topics of the day - Report from Bonn - Burden - Genscher and the Missile Dispute (May 19, 1989)
  • Topics of the day - Report from Bonn - Consonance - The debate in the Bundestag - Schildbürger - Speed ​​limit on the advance (June 16, 1989)
  • Topics of the day - Report from Bonn - Brokers - GDR lawyer Vogel and his mandate (August 18, 1989)
  • Pictures of Germany - The Lone Fighter (December 22, 1989)
  • Getting By In The West (Jan 12, 1990)
  • Experienced - an emergency? - Observations in the Merseburg District Hospital (January 18, 1990)
  • The Monday Report - Battle for the Saar - Potters against Lafontaine (January 22, 1990)
  • The Monday Report - Dismissed - The Schmähling Case (February 5, 1990)
  • The Monday Report - Where Need Is Greatest - German Relief Goods for Romania (May 14, 1990)
  • Pictures of Germany - 24 Hours in Görlitz (September 18, 1990)
  • The Monday Report - Honecker and the Order to Shoot (January 28, 1991)
  • The Monday Report - Poison Gas (February 28, 1991)
  • The Monday Report - Not Just Nice Gestures - The Inaugural Visits of the Federal President (March 18, 1991)
  • We are looking for ... the finger on the trigger - fatal shots on the wall (June 27, 1991)
  • The Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany - Willy Brandt (August 2, 1991)
  • The Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany - Helmut Schmidt (August 9, 1991)
  • Border Incidents (August 13, 1991)
  • German cracks - Wall guards - GDR border officers remember (November 18, 1991)
  • Arrest Warrant - Honecker and the Fatal Shots (December 13, 1991)
  • German cracks - Joachim Gauck - Guardian of the Stasi files (December 16, 1991)
  • Witnessed - Richard von Weizsäcker - President of all Germans (December 27, 1991)
  • When Erich Was Still Standing on the Red Carpet - Bonn Policy on Germany - The State Visit (April 30, 1992)
  • ARD Focus - Honecker Behind Bars - The Arrest Warrant (July 29, 1992)
  • Kulturweltspiegel - IM "Hölderlin" (November 15, 1992)
  • ARD-Exclusiv - Traitor in a Black Skirt (July 9, 1993)
  • Resistance - Between Persecution and Terror (July 14, 1994)
  • Kulturweltspiegel - Monika Maron, code name Mitsu (August 6, 1995)
  • ARD-Exclusiv - Hunted - Hit - Bleed to Death - The Death of the Wall Refugee Peter Fechter (August 11, 1995)
  • Accused - GDR border troop generals as killers? (October 23, 1995)
  • We are looking for ... - Winner justice? - Prominent GDR Politicians in Court (November 12, 1995)
  • Collective punishment? - Children of GDR celebrities (January 25, 1996)
  • Topics of the day - Report from Bonn - Spy in the Vatican (September 20, 1996)
  • Fear - Mistrust - Hate - The Gauck Authority (September 25, 1996)
  • Kulturweltspiegel - Lew Kopelew (October 27, 1996)
  • Der Biedermann - Erich Mielke - A German Career (December 11, 1997)
  • Morgenmagazin - ARD-Feature - Der Biedermann Mielke (December 11, 1997)
  • Reckoning - The Son of Chancellor Spy Guillaume (September 26, 1998)
  • Kulturweltspiegel - Heinz Schubert (February 14, 1999)
  • Death to the Traitor - The Lutz Eigendorf Case (March 22, 2000)
  • The SS man. Josef Blösche - Life and Death of a Murderer (May 21, 2003)
  • The Spider Web (November 23, 2005)
  • Fritz Pleitgen - Restless - Serene ARD (March 21, 2007)
  • The Secret Service Treasure (December 12, 2007)
  • Bonn Republic ARD Part 1 (April 22, 2009)
  • Bonn Republic ARD Part 2 (April 29, 2009)
  • Bonn Republic WDR, Part 1 (October 11, 2009). 1949 to 1963: The Adenauer era
  • Bonn Republic WDR, Part 2 (October 18, 2009). 1963 to 1969: From Erhard to the grand coalition
  • Bonn Republic WDR, Part 3 (October 25, 2009). 1969 to 1974: Social-liberal coalition Brandt / Scheel
  • Bonn Republic WDR, Part 4 (November 1, 2009). 1974 to 1982: Schmidt / Genscher social-liberal coalition
  • Bonn Republic WDR, Part 5 (November 8, 2009). 1982 to 1990: The Kohl era - from the turning point to reunification
  • Bonn Republic WDR, Part 6 (November 15, 2009). 1990 to 1998: The Kohl Era - The United Germany

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.heribert-schwan.de/
  2. ↑ B. Poerksen , W. Krischke (Ed.): The hurried politics. The new power of the media and markets . Cologne 2013, p. 158.
  3. ↑ René Pfister: “The word traitor must be used” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2014, p. 18-27 ( online - October 6, 2014 ).
  4. ↑ Beck Aktuell: Former Chancellor Kohl wins in court again against ex-ghostwriters , accessed on May 5, 2015
  5. ^ Legal Tribune Online: Record compensation for pain and suffering for Helmut Kohl , accessed on April 27, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Swan, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and television author
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Betzdorf