Karsten Peters

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Karsten Peters (born August 12, 1935 in Waren (Müritz) ; † 1990 ) was a German film critic, actor, author and editor-in-chief.

First years

Karsten Peters grew up in Flensburg . He studied German, sociology and theater and newspaper studies in Hamburg and Munich without a degree. In 1957 he attended the Werner Friedmann Institute in Munich, which was later renamed the German School of Journalism . His lecturers included Immanuel Birnbaum , Hermann Proebst , Martin E. Süskind and Wolf Schneider . Even during his training, Peters wrote film reviews for the Münchner Abendzeitung .

In 1958 he was taken over by the evening newspaper as a feature editor. Until 1977 he wrote mainly film and ballet reviews there. He rose to head of the arts section and became deputy editor-in-chief. He made a name for himself, was invited as a member of several international festival juries and was a member of the Federal Film Prize Committee for many years .

Occasionally he changed professional fronts and acted as an actor in Syberberg and Fassbinder films, for example in Scarabea - How Much Earth Do People Need? (1968) and in Lola (1981). Even Alfred Vohrer was in 1976 for the film critics a small role in Anita Dröge Möller and tranquility at the Ruhr .

Eventful professional years

After leaving the evening newspaper, Karsten Peters first worked for Lui , the German licensed edition of the French men's magazine under the editor Heinz van Nouhuys . In 1980 he was in charge of the features section of the Hamburger Abendblatt for a few months .

Then in 1980 he went to the Berlin newspaper Der Abend as editor-in-chief . The paper had to file for bankruptcy in January 1981. Together with the actor Kurt Raab , Peters wrote a very personal biography of the filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder . In 1983 Peters became the first official editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Rundschau , a left-leaning regional weekly newspaper that was launched in 1981/1982 by an initiative for press diversity . From 1986 he headed the culture department of the Hamburger Morgenpost .

Karsten Peters died of a heart attack in 1990 at the age of 55 . His grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Fonts

  • With Kurt Raab: The longing of Rainer Werner Fassbinder . C. Bertelsmannverlag and Script Book Agency, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-570-03117-9

Web links

Karsten Peters in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Meyer: Ten Years of the Werner Friedmann Institute. Training young journalists. Editor: Werner Friedmann Institute, Munich 1959
  2. ^ Mourning for Karsten Peters in the Hamburger Abendblatt of October 20, 1990.
  3. ^ In the morning, when evening comes in The time of October 10, 1980.
  4. ↑ The slow death of an experiment in Welt Online on March 13, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film critic, author, editor-in-chief, actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Goods (Müritz)
DATE OF DEATH 1990