Jörn Kalkbrenner

Jörn Kalkbrenner (* 1950 in Babelsberg ) is a German journalist and author .

Life and work

Jörn Kalkbrenner was born in 1950 as the son of butcher Siegfried Kalkbrenner and grocer Annemarie Kalkbrenner in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam . He grew up in Potsdam before attending a sports school in Brandenburg an der Havel as a track and field athlete . After graduating from high school, he worked as a small actor at Deutsche Film AG ( DEFA ), but initially did not seek training as an actor, but completed an internship at the newspaper. After completing basic military service in the NVA , he found work in a local editorial office because he was initially not allowed to study. From 1974 to 1978 he studied journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and then worked for the newspaper Neues Deutschland in Berlin.

After the break with the DDR Journalism 1987 Jörn Kalkbrenner was a freelance writer for the DEFA Studio for Animated Films in Dresden and the children's television in Berlin-Adlershof worked for which he numerous Sandman stories and evening greetings for Mr. Fuchs and Ms. Elster wrote and developed the puppet series Die Karottis .

At the time of the fall of the Wall, Kalkbrenner dealt with the investigation " Judgment without a trial - Margot Honecker versus Ossietzky-Schüler with the arbitrariness of the GDR regime, which reached a particularly rude climax with the reprimanding of critically thinking high school students in East Berlin ( Ossietzky affair ). At the same time, articles and first reports were made for the successor to GDR television, German television broadcasting . In addition, Kalkbrenner worked briefly for the satirical program Extra Drei (NDR), the culture magazine Aspects (ZDF), Kulturzeit (3sat) and Deutsche-Welle-TV .

Immediately after the founding of the ORB ( Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg ) in the fall of 1991, I started working in various editorial offices at the station, such as Abendjournal and Querstraße . From 1995 onwards numerous television reports and documentaries followed, also for the SFB ( Sender Free Berlin ). After the merger of both channels to form rbb ( Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg ) in 2003, Kalkbrenner u. a. for the programs zibb , Heimatjournal and Die Jury hilft aktiv, while the reporting activities continued. Over 50 reports, features and documentaries were created under his direction.

Jörn Kalkbrenner also regularly participated in the satirical program KAOS / magazine for everyday life and madness developed, directed and moderated by his wife Carla Kalkbrenner . He appeared in various roles in game scenes and in contributions with a hidden camera. Caused a stir u. a. the fake Goldfinger , which was used to draw attention to the vandalism in Sanssouci Park . After Kalkbrenner had offered tourists a collection of supposedly broken fingers from the freshly gilded figures of the Chinese tea house for sale, he was arrested by the police who were called and taken away in handcuffs in front of the camera.

The satirical magazine KAOS, which received the Grimme Prize in 1993 , worked with other television producers who gained notoriety. They include the documentary film director Raymond Ley , the writer Stefan Schwarz , the theater director and artistic director Lars-Ole Walburg , the author Astrid Ule , the television author and director Thomas Hauer , the TV journalists and authors Ulf Kalkreuth and Dennis Wagner, and the actress Gesine Cukrowski who, as a young student, took on a number of roles in "KAOS" contributions.

His marriage to the journalist Carla Kalkbrenner resulted in two sons, the techno musicians Paul and Fritz Kalkbrenner .

Reports, features, documentation (selection)

• Lime & gravel / The Rüdersdorf monument (30 min, DFF, 3sat)
• Changing fashion (30 min, DFF, 3sat)
• I think of Potsdam / information about a millennial (60 min, ARD, ORB, 3sat)
• The unknown place: Hedwig Bollhagen, Marwitz (15 min, ORB)
• Proximity and distance / German-Israeli writers' meeting (45 min, co-author, ORB)
• It was very lucky / Three women over 80 tell (45 min, ORB)
• Potsdam fates / five women, five stories (30 min, Arte)
• The unknown place: Foerster's garden (15 min, ORB)
• Words in the river / A poet steamer on the Oder (45 min, ORB)
• Do you still know him? The disappearance of the political joke (30 min, ORB)
• Everything Müller or what? The Berlin Ensemble and the Shining East (35 min, 3sat)
• The fight for the job / Ossis against Wessis, Wessis against Ossis (30 min, SFB)
• André Heller: I will survive all of you (45 min., Co-author, MDR)
• Do it better, old house / monument protection - frustration or hope? (30 min, ORB)
• The unknown place: The colony of Marga - first German garden city (15 min, ORB)
• A life for the Töppe / Hedwig Bollhagen (30 min, ORB)
• Foreigner hunt in Brandenburg / What drives the perpetrators? (30 min, ORB)
• Escape from the Platte / Are our large estates sluggish? 30 min, (SFB)
• Finally home - right? The Russian-Germans by Marzahn (30 min, SFB)
• Everyone out and blow up! The end of the social palaces (30 min, SFB)
• GDR palace or Prussian palace? The egg dance around the center of Berlin 30 min, (SFB)
• Daymler-City's underworld / The belly of Potsdamer Platz (30 min, SFB)
• Power for the neighborhood / Out and about with Berlin neighborhood managers (30 min, SFB)
• Abolished and not forgotten? / What remains of the GDR (30 min, SFB)
• Kampfplatz Straße / The War of Berlin Motorists (30 min, SFB)
• It's Cricket-Time / Brits in Berlin (15 min, SFB)
• 75 and not a bit older / The Queen and the Berliners (15 min, SFB)
• Dance until the eyes flicker / 24 hours in Germany's mega disco (30 min., SFB)
• Ick mach 'in coal / on tour with Berlin coal carriers (30 min, SFB)
• The East is steaming / With the goulash cannon in the Berlin bacon belt (30 min, RBB, ARD)
• Can I help you? Christmas stress in KaDeWe (45 min, participation, Sat1)
• Dismantle, dismantle! The Palace of the Republic is being demolished (30 min, RBB)
• Berlin rough edges / The Alex (45 min, RBB)

Awards

• 1997: Journalist Award of the German National Committee for Monument Protection
• 1997: Journalist Prize from the Märkischer Press and Business Club Berlin

literature

• Jörn Kalkbrenner: Margot Honecker against Ossietzky students. Judgment without trial. 117 pp., Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-320-01682-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literary material for Mr. Fuchs and Mrs. Elster. (No longer available online.) Rbb , archived from the original on February 15, 2015 ; accessed on February 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Program gallery - broadcasts: K. Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television, accessed on February 17, 2015 . 
3. ↑ German Prize for Monument Protection 2008 (PDF; 1.1 MB) Retrieved on February 17, 2015 .