Hermann Budzislawski

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Hermann Budzislawski (born February 11, 1901 in Berlin ; † April 28, 1978 there ) was a German journalist . He was already known in the 1930s as editor-in-chief of the magazine Die Weltbühne .

The world stage 1982 edition

Life

Before 1933

Hermann Budzislawski attended the boys' school of the Jewish community in Berlin and the secondary school and, after graduating from high school, studied economics and political science in Berlin , Würzburg and Tübingen from 1919 to 1923 . He then worked as a commercial clerk, editor of the magazine Industrial and Trade Review for India and private tutor, and from 1926 to 1933 as a freelancer for the night express and the world stage . From 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the SPD .

exile

In 1933 Budzislawski fled to Zurich and in 1934 to Prague , where he joined the united front of New Begins . On June 11, 1935, the Deutsche Reichsanzeiger published the fourth expatriation list of the German Reich , according to which he was legally expatriated . There he was chairman of the German Popular Front Committee until 1938 , then chairman of the committee of German oppositionists in Paris . He was also the publisher and editor-in-chief of the exile magazine Die Weltbühne . He was a founding member and chairman of the German Popular Front Committee in Prague. He was interned in France from 1939 to 1940, after which he fled to the USA via Portugal . There he was u. a. Contributor and ghostwriter to Dorothy Thompson and commentator and columnist for the Overseas News Agency New York . In May 1944 he helped found the Council for a Democratic Germany (CDG) in New York.

return

In 1948 Budzislawski returned to Germany, became a member of the SED and professor for international press at the University of Leipzig . 1954 to 1962 he was the dean of the newly founded Faculty of Journalism . (In 1963, Wolfgang Rödel was appointed his successor.) Until 1967, Budzislawski taught at the Karl Marx University as director of the Institute for Press History and the Institute for Theory and Practice of Press Work and as dean of the journalism faculty. For years, his writings shaped the so-called socialist journalism practiced in the GDR, whose attitude is characterized by being a collective propagandist, agitator and organizer of socialism according to Lenin's press theory. Unlike his successors in the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Journalism, his work is also characterized by a liberalism that can be read between the lines, which can be traced back to his time in exile in the USA. Budzislawski branded the Western sensational press as a pure distraction from social problems, but himself introduced the socialist sensational report. This is characterized by the characteristics of personalization (protagonist if possible from the Eastern Bloc) and emotionalization (a socialist heroic or pioneering act is in the foreground).

tomb

Budzislawski was a member of the Association of German Journalists (VDJ) and the Kulturbund and a member of the People's Chamber . In 1956 he became a member of the PEN Center West and East. In 1958 he briefly headed the "Treffpunkt Berlin" series as a representative of Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler . In addition, Budzislawski was a member of the Executive Council of the World Federation of Scientists from 1955 to 1966 , from 1958 to 1966 again a member of the People's Chamber and from 1963 president of the UNESCO Commission of the GDR . From 1967 to 1971 he was the publisher and editor-in-chief of Die Weltbühne magazine .

He was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg in the Memorial of the Socialists in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried in Berlin.

Awards

Fonts

  • Socialist journalism . Leipzig 1966.

literature

  • Brigitte Klump: The Red Monastery. Munich 1978/1991.
  • Tobias Liebert: Radio training and research in Leipzig between 1946 and 1963. In: Mitteilungen StRuG , Jg. 20, H. 2/3 (1994): pp. 89-98
  • Toralf Teuber: A strategist in exile. Hermann Budzislawski and “The New World Stage” . Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2004.
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Budzislawski, Hermann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hepp (Ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger . tape 1 : Lists in chronological order. De Gruyter Saur, Munich / New York / London / Paris 1985, ISBN 978-3-11-095062-5 , pp. 5 (reprinted 2010).
personal data
SURNAME Budzislawski, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, media scientist and politician (SPD, SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1978
Place of death Berlin