Kaspar Vallot

Kaspar Vallot (born July 30, 1925 in Kohlscheid ) is a German journalist .

Life

Kaspar Vallot was editor-in-chief of Aachener Nachrichten from 1972 to 1983 . He began his professional career in July 1952 as the chief editor of the Eifeler Nachrichten . Later he became (from 1970) head of the local editorial office of Aachener Nachrichten and deputy editor-in-chief. Vallot was a student at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen.

In his hometown of Monschau he was committed to contemporary art and in 1970 initiated the exhibition "Environmental Accents" with his colleague at the time, the journalist and art critic Klaus Honnef , and a previously founded association. 39 artists took part in this open-air exhibition in Monschau, including HA Schult , Erich Reusch , Georg Mika , Dick Higgins , Keith Arnatt and Winfried Gaul ; also Peter Brüning , Klaus Rinke , Timm Ulrichs and Lawrence Weiner , who were later counted among the most famous representatives of contemporary art.

Then in 1971 Kaspar Vallot and the art and business journalist Willi Bongard ( Capital ) brought the packaging artist Christo Javacheff to Monschau for an art campaign. Christo packed the castle and the Haller ruins in Monschau.

As editor-in-chief, he preferably interviewed well-known German politicians such as Carlo Schmid , Helmut Schmidt , Willy Brandt , Herbert Wehner (all SPD), Rainer Barzel (CDU), Gerhart Baum and Hans-Dietrich Genscher (both FDP), but also personalities such as André Glucksmann , Manès Sperber and Karl Heinz Beckurts, murdered in 1986 . In total, more than 100 full-page interviews were published, all of which can be viewed in the newspaper archive of the city library in Aachen.

Vallot initiated a highly acclaimed retrospective of environmental accents in the summer of 2011. In retirement, as a freelance journalist, he finally wrote a 104-part historical series about the Monschauer Land. This appeared in the Eifeler editions of the Aachener Nachrichten. The series covers the time from the conquest of the city of Monschau by the Americans in September 1944 to the dissolution of the Monschau district in 1971.

Honor

Vallot was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class while he was still in chief . The award was presented in May 1982 in Düsseldorf by the then Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau .

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SURNAME	Vallot, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kohlscheid