Joachim Widera
Joachim Widera (born December 1929 in Hindenburg ; † October 24, 1994 in Aachen ) was a German journalist.
Stations of his journalistic career were Mannheim ( Mannheimer Morgen ), Saarbrücken ( Saarbrücker Zeitung ), Aachen (press spokesman for the diocese of Aachen under Bishop Klaus Hemmerle ). His writing Katholikentage in Aachen (1986), written on the occasion of the upcoming Katholikentage in Aachen, as well as his fundamental work on the question of the possibilities and limits of the folkloric interpretation of house inscriptions (1990) were of some importance .
Life
Widera was born in the Upper Silesian industrial city of Hindenburg . After completing primary school there and in Bergstadt , he attended secondary school in the district town of Cosel until autumn 1944 . When Russian troops crossed the Upper Silesian border on January 19, 1945 and the situation for the German High Court bailiff Johann Widera and his family became threatening, they fled via Berlin to the British occupation zone . There they were assigned to the Vechta iO district as expellees from the east, where Joachim Widera soon attracted attention because of his school achievements, so that he was allowed to skip a school fund. In March 1949 he passed the Abitur at the Antonianum high school in Vechta as the best in his class. In the same year he began studying history (with political science), church history, German literature and philosophy at the University of Freiburg . Here he met Johannes Vincke , and he was soon accepted into his circle of house inscriptions . After a semester of study in Heidelberg and Göttingen, he began to deal intensively with the house inscription culture in Freiburg under the direction of Vincke and planned to publish an "inscription work", which, however, only came about in 1989: under the title Possibilities and Limits Folklore interpretations of house inscriptions Joachim Widera submitted his fundamental dissertation to Lutz Röhrich . In a revised form it was published in 1990 in the series Artes Populares: Studia Ethnographica et Folkloristica edited by Röhrich . The article on the Vincke house inscription circle deals in more detail with the fundamental findings of Joachim Widera's study.
Stations of his activity
- 1956–1958 trainee at the Badische Zeitung
- 1958–1960 research assistant at the Institute for Church History and Religious Folklore of Johannes Vincke
- 1960–1963 editor at Mannheimer Morgen
- 1963–1965 editor-in-chief of the company magazine Keramos and head of the press office at Villeroy & Boch
- 1965–1979 editor at the Saarbrücker Zeitung
- 1979–1989 head of the press office of the diocese of Aachen, press spokesman for Bishop Klaus Hemmerle.
Awards
1989 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications (selection)
- Catholic days in Aachen: environment - tasks - charisma. Aachen 1986
- Possibilities and limits of folkloric interpretations of house inscriptions. Frankfurt a. M. 1990
literature
- Theodor Tebbe: The Vincke house inscription circle. Life and work of Johannes Vincke, Johannes Thomes, Anton Tumbrägel and Joachim Widera. 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049296-9 .
- Joachim Widera: Possibilities and Limits of Folklore Interpretation of House Inscriptions. Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-631-43023-X .
- Joachim Widera: Catholic Days in Aachen: Environment - Tasks - Charisma. Aachen 1986.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Widera, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hindenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1994 |
| Place of death | Aachen |