Jörg Bremer

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Jörg Bremer (born June 28, 1952 in Düsseldorf ) is a German journalist , historian and author . From 1978 to 2017 he was one of the editors and correspondents of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Life

Jörg Bremer was born the son of a company manager who held several positions and moved frequently. His family comes from Göttingen , where they have been settled for more than 200 years and run the Fr. Bremer wine shop. He is with the lawyer and graduate financial economist Christiane v. Klinggräff married. The couple has three children.

School and study

Jörg Bremer passed his Abitur in 1971 in Lörrach in Baden at the mathematical and scientific Behrens grammar school. He studied literature , history and law in Freiburg and moved to Heidelberg to study public law and modern history . He first became an assistant to the social historian Werner Conze and then his doctoral student. In 1977 he received his doctorate from Conze with his work Die Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAP) in the underground and in exile 1933–1945 .

Bremer was one of the first researchers to have access to the private archive of Willy Brandt 's time in exile . After completing his doctorate, Bremer switched to Rudolf Morsey at the Chair of Administrative History at the Administrative University of Speyer as a research assistant . He familiarized himself with the beginnings of the civil service movement after World War II , not least in the private archives of former SAP members. In 1978 he went as a research fellow to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy , an institution on the campus of Tufts University in Somerville near Boston with close ties to Harvard University, and worked on American views on Eurocommunism .

Journalistic career

Even while he was still at school, Bremer worked on the youth page of the Badische Zeitung in Freiburg, writing poetry, radio plays and short stories. During his studies, he did an internship at Süddeutscher Rundfunk . Even before moving to the USA , where he wanted to stay two years, he had applied to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , which hired him on July 1, 1978 in the political newsroom. From Boston he had journalistically accompanied Ronald Reagan's election campaign and was able to use his acquaintance with his advisors in the conservative "think tank" Fletcher School . In Frankfurt he learned the basics of news journalism in the newsroom, not least under the guidance of Friedrich Karl Fromme and Dieter Eckart .

In the summer of 1980 the editors sent him to Warsaw , where he first reported on the Solidarność congress in Oliwa in Gdańsk / Danzig . He became well acquainted with union leader Lech Wałęsa , the publicist and later diplomat Janusz Reiter , with the authors Andrzej Szczypiorski and Jacek Kuroń, and with others. Under the martial law of military censorship after January 13, 1981, Bremer was initially only able to wire censored reports to Frankfurt. At the same time, however, he wrote reports as a “Swedish businessman”; Travelers smuggled these out of the country. He also wrote some articles for Die Zeit and its then editor Marion Gräfin Dönhoff .

In August 1986 he moved to Hanover and reported from Lower Saxony, including in 1988 about the casino affair and the casino committee in the state parliament , the demonstrations against the Gorleben repository (for radioactive waste ) and the end of the "Albrecht era" ( Ernst Albrecht was from 1976 Minister-President of Lower Saxony until 1990 ). The victory of the SPD in the state elections on May 13, 1990 was at the same time a career step for Gerhard Schröder (Federal Chancellor from 1998 to 2005).

Bremer experienced the opening of the inner-German border and the fall of the Berlin Wall "up close": He was one of the journalists who accompanied Chancellor Helmut Kohl on his visit to Warsaw in November 1989 . Kohl interrupted his trip and flew to Berlin because the wall suddenly fell there . Bremer later reported from Saxony-Anhalt for a short time .

In January 1991 - just days before the first Iraqi Scuds - Bremer moved to Jerusalem , from where he spent 18 years reporting for the FAZ on the Middle East conflict , but also on society , archeology and religion; on the Israeli as well as on the Palestinian side. With a strong editorial team behind him, he was able to defend himself against all hostility from the various sides and tried to provide “fair but passionate reporting from both sides” of the conflict.

From 2009 to 2017 Jörg Bremer was a correspondent in Rome , from where he reports for the FAZ on Italian politics and the Vatican . Notable events since July 2009 include the euro crisis , the end of the political career of long-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , the Monti and Letta cabinet , the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. and the subsequent election of Pope Francesco and the Renzi cabinet (since February 2014).

Bremer retired at the end of 2017; Matthias Rüb was his successor in Rome . He lives in Berlin and Rome.

Memberships

Jörg Bremer is a Protestant Christian and belongs to the Johanniter Order .

Works

  • A goblet for two - On the ecumenical debate about communion among sectarian couples; published by Jörg Bremer, Grünewald-Patmos-Verlag , 2019, ISBN 978-3-7867-3187-0
  • Israel and Palestine, an illustrated cultural history , Hirmer-Verlag, 2000
  • Israel, where time and eternity meet with Karl-Heinz Geppert, Liebenzeller Mission, 1998
  • Israel - land of promises and broken promises with photos by Florian Adler, G. Braun-Verlag, 1997
  • Reichsstraße 1 - A journey into the past , Westermann-Sachbuch, 1994
  • Poland, Everyday Life, Pride and Hope , Westermann-Sachbuch, 1989
  • The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP) - Underground and Exile 1933–1945 . Campus-Verlag, 1978, ISBN 978-3593323299

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personal data
SURNAME Bremer, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf