Jürgen Neven-du Mont

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Jürgen Neven-du Mont (right) with Walter Krüttner at the awarding of the Berlin Art Prize for Film (1964)

Jürgen Neven-du Mont (born September 13, 1921 in Munich ; † July 14, 1979 there ) was a German writer , director and journalist .

life and work

Jürgen Neven-du Mont was the son of a Munich graphic artist . After visiting the country school home in Neubeu am Inn, he studied sociology and modern history in Rome , Paris and Heidelberg .

He completed his journalistic training in Cologne . In 1946 he published the youth magazine The Lost Generation in Munich with Nicolaus Sombart . At the same time he worked in the theater sector. Neven-du Mont was first assistant director at the Theater der Jugend in Munich. From 1946 to 1949 he was assistant director and dramaturge for Paul Verhoeven at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel . At the same time he also directed at theaters in Darmstadt and Stuttgart .

As a freelancer for the Neue Zeitung , he found his way back to journalism. From 1949 to 1950 he was the political editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . From 1951 to 1953 he was chief reporter for the Munich illustrated magazine under Hans Habe . Then from 1954 to 1956 he was editor-in-chief of the Sonntags-Illustrierte at Ullstein Verlag in Berlin . He also assisted director Viktor Tourjansky and dubbed foreign films.

From 1956 to 1962 Neven-du Mont worked as a television chief reporter for the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt. He then worked in the same function until 1966 with the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) under contract. During this time, Neven-du Mont produced a number of high-profile television programs and political reports: The avenue of death (1956; about the battlefields between Metz and Verdun); The Inconvenient State (1957; about Israel); That is why Vittorio chooses red (1962; on Italian communism); How do the others see us? , The vicious circle and Poland in Wroclaw . During this time he also placed many artists in television, including a. the film composer Peter Thomas .

Among other things, he has published columnist works such as Acrobats of Everyday Life , When is Man Drunk , Teutons in Italy , The Cats of Rome , The Homo Sapiens in the Zoo and The Dogs of Saint Tropez . He made a name for himself primarily with films from the Eastern Bloc. He was the first German television journalist to film in Hungary and Czechoslovakia . Nikita Khrushchev granted him special permission in 1964 to shoot the film Pictures from the Soviet Union - The Planned Man . With this permit, he was able to travel through the Soviet Union for almost three months . The resulting film reports on the agricultural and industrial planned economy, school system, youth education, leisure activities and housing conditions of the Soviet citizens.

Triggered by the Berlin crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall, the attitude of the media and the public towards the policy of expellees changed. Intellectuals and media representatives like Neven-du Mont publicly called for the abandonment of the former eastern territories . In May 1963, his TV report on the Poles in Breslau brought him trouble with the German associations of expellees . The officials were of the opinion that his contribution was too relaxing. When Neven-du Mont wanted to film at the home meeting of the Silesians in Cologne in June 1963 , he and his team had to be protected by the police from the riots by the expellees.

From October 1, 1963 to December 30, 1963, Neven-du Mont and Werner Baecker , Manfred Jenke , Walter Menningen, Guido Schütte and Dietrich Koch jointly directed and moderated the NDR political magazine Panorama .

In 1963 he was awarded the Joseph E. Drexel Prize in the field of press and journalism . In January 1964 he was nominated for his show Are we revanchists? The Germans and the Oder-Neisse Line were also awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in silver.

From 1967 to 1971 he worked as a freelance journalist, director and author. During this time several articles, contributions and books were created. The liberal reporter Neven-du Mont, a member of the FDP since 1972 , was head of ZDF's main editorial office for documentary games from 1971 to 1973. Above all, Neven-du Mont has used the main historical-political direction of the documentary play and addressed time problems. As a director, he was allowed to produce a documentary play himself every year according to the contract. He was the author of the two-part documentary The Soldier Murder of Lebach. The basis for the film was his book Kleinstadtmörder. Lane 1081. The so-called Lebach judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court prohibited the broadcast of the documentary play. The documentary game, which cost around 1.2 million German marks, then disappeared in the " poison cabinet " of the Second German Television .

From January 1974 until his death he worked as a ZDF special correspondent. Neven-du Mont died on July 14, 1979 after a long and serious illness in Munich.

Quote

“There are television professionals who can reach into full human life whenever and wherever they want - nothing worth praising comes out of it. And then there are others who just grab it without looking, and then they have a 'hot potato', a 'burning question of time' or something else in their hand that will secure them the title 'deserving ...' for years to come. The honorable reporter of the Hessischer Rundfunk Jürgen Neven-du Mont is one of the latter. "

Awards

Publications

  • The Mice of the Lord Parsley and many other stories and poems . Ensslin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1984, ISBN 3-7709-0558-X .
  • Willibald mouse. Ensslin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1961.
  • Love your Germans as you love yourself. Report from a German city . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1970, ISBN 3-499-11297-3 .
  • with Karl Schütz, with the assistance of Rainer Söhnlein: Small town murderer: track 1081. Background to the Lebach case. Hoffmann et al. Campe, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-455-05610-5 .
  • Leopold, the blue pig. Publisher F. Schneider, Munich 1969.
  • Germany's raw thoughts about the communists . In: The New Society. No. 13 1966, pp. 193-197

Films and TV reports

  • 1968: A prisoner with Stalin and Hitler
  • 1966: People in Volgograd
  • 1966: People and Industry in Eastern Siberia
  • 1964: Which spirit wins in the Bundeswehr?
  • 1964: Pictures from the Soviet Union - The planned person
  • 1963: are we revanchists? The Germans and the Oder-Neisse Line
  • 1963: Poland in Wroclaw
  • 1963: Stalingrad
  • 1960: look at our youth
  • 1959: You shall be my people - Experienced Kirchentag
  • 1959: 2x Germany (two parts)
  • 1959: The Cold War in the classroom
  • 1958: fishermen, farmers and soldiers

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Neven-du Mont  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Estate database of the Federal Archives. Retrieved October 10, 2010
  2. ↑ http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/2004-2-091 accessed on May 22, 2009
  3. ↑ DISPLACED: Anger in the torchlight . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1963, pp. 17-18 ( Online - June 19, 1963 ).
  4. ↑ Panorama story on ndr.de. Retrieved October 10, 2010
  5. ↑ Literarisches Leben Internet database and documentation center for German-language literature 1945 to 2000. Retrieved on October 10, 2010
  6. ↑ Died: Jürgen Neven-du Mont In: Der Spiegel. 33rd volume, No. 30, July 23, 1979, ISSN  0038-7452 , p. 156. ( online version. Accessed on October 10, 2010).
  7. ↑ Professional: Jürgen Neven-du Mont In: Der Spiegel. Volume 27, No. 46, November 12, 1973, ISSN  0038-7452 , p. 218 ( online version. Accessed October 10, 2010).
  8. ^ Teleman: Television: With angel tongues. In: Der Spiegel 25/1960. June 15, 1960, p. 60 , accessed May 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Neven-du Mont, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, director and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1979
Place of death Munich