Judith Grümmer

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Judith Grümmer (left) and Angela Spizig (Cologne Mayor) 2011

Judith Grümmer (* 1958 in Cologne ) is a German radio journalist , audio biographer and author .

Life

Judith Grümmer studied history , geography and education in Cologne with a master's degree . During her studies, she initially worked as a television journalist at Westdeutscher Rundfunk , before concentrating on radio moderation and radio work at WDR and Deutschlandfunk from the mid-1980s .

Her journalistic focus is on social politics , education , culture , medicine , the environment and biography and memory work .

Since 2004, she has also been particularly interested in the socio-political development in Bolivia . In 2008 and 2009, in several months of voluntary social work by the journalist, in collaboration with the Bolivian Youth Hostel Association , the women and youth project “Cinco Palillos” in the Bolivian Andes as well as numerous journalistic projects were created.

As the daughter of the Cologne artist Jürgen Hans Grümmer , she has been committed to her father's artistic estate since 2008 and has published a monograph on him. Since 2010 she has been committed to the preservation and professional renovation of the listed Cologne Opera Fountain . In 2018 she was appointed to the jury for furnishing the Offenbachplatz in Cologne. In addition, as the heir to artistic copyright, she is committed to the careful further development of the Cologne university campus, which was planned and realized as a three-dimensional total work of art by Jürgen Hans Grümmer in the 1960s and 1970s.

In addition to her work as a journalist, she has initiated a family audio book project "Audio biographies of seriously ill mothers and fathers. Patients tell for their children", which has been a pilot project of the Bonn University Hospital under the scientific direction of Prof. Lukas Radbruch and seriously ill mothers and Creates an offer for fathers of underage children to tell their children their life story as an audio book (audio biography) free of charge as part of the project. The project is part of the initiative to implement the “Charter for the Care of Severely Ill and Dying People in Germany”.

Judith Grümmer is widowed and the mother of three sons. She lives in Cologne.

Awards

The radio journalist was awarded the Kurt Magnus Prize for her reports and, as part of the “office hours” team, the VDJM's “European Journalist Prize 2003” .

Literature and audio books

  • Jürgen Hans Grümmer. Painter and sculptor . (On the occasion of the first posthumous exhibition at the Kunsthaus Rhenania in Cologne from October 2, 2010 to October 17, 2010.) Edited by Judith Grümmer. With contributions by Jürgen Becker , Conny Czymoch , Diter Frowein-Lyasso , Thomas Hackenberg , Christopher Schroer and Jo Schulte-Frohlinde. Die Neue Sachlichkeit , Lindlar 2010. ISBN 978-3-942139-09-0 .
  • Mosaico Boliviano - Bolivia in reports, interviews and snapshots . Edited by Judith Grümmer and Max Steiner. Sucre / Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-033447-4 .
  • Good luck for the future. History and future of palliative medicine. An audio book, ed. from the German Cancer Aid.
  • Go new ways. An audio book about the everyday life of adults with intellectual disabilities. Edited by the Eichhof community.
  • Heike Fink. My year with death. How I got to know the great stranger better. Gütersloher publishing house, May 2018.

Radio productions (selection)

  • "The moment is eternity. Ulrich Rückriem, artist. Period!, Deutschlandfunk 2017
  • "Musical proselytizing. Baroque sounds from the jungle", Deutschlandfunk 2013
  • "My father. The painter. A childhood in the light of art. “Deutschlandfunk 2012.
  • “Bonn - Djerba and back. The story of an unusual school partnership. ”Deutschlandfunk 2011. This long-term report from 2005 to 2011 was also produced in 2012 as an Arabic audio version with the support of the Foreign Office.
  • “A sip of chicha for the pachamama. Bolivian village stories. “Deutschlandfunk 2010
  • “The President is far. Living in a Bolivian Andental Valley. “WDR5 2010
  • “Vanishing Point Sucre. Eva de Vilar on her emigration to Bolivia. “Experienced history, WDR5 2010
  • "Every journey starts with the first step. The story of a unique German-Tunisian school partnership. ”WDR5 2009

documentary

  • "The beach lies under the asphalt - a gray schoolyard turns green". Germany 1999, 30 min., F., Documentary film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Record in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Leonie Gubela: Last words . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 26, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 24 ( taz.de [accessed October 26, 2019]).
  3. ↑ The Pallitiavmedizin Audiobook by Deutsche Krebshilfe ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.krebshilfe.de
  4. ↑ The Eichhof audio book
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ My father. The painter. A feature of Deutschlandfunk
  7. ↑ An unusual school partnership between Bonn and El Mey / Tunisia (PDF; 5.5 MB)
  8. ↑ A sip of chicha for Pachamama
  9. ↑ The beach is under the asphalt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xn--judith-grmmer-4ob.de  
personal data
SURNAME Grümmer, Judith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grümmer-Kehrer, Judith (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne