Lorenz S. Beckhardt
Lorenz Salomon Beckhardt (born November 30, 1961 in Wiesbaden ) is a German journalist and author .
Life
Beckhardt was born as the child of Shoah survivors and the grandson of Fritz Beckhardt , the highly decorated German-Jewish fighter pilot of the First World War. He attended the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Bonn , where he studied chemistry and then with the completion chemist . Raised a Catholic, he only learned as an adult that he was the child of Jews.
From 1980 to 1990 he was the author and editor of the magazine ila, the Latin America Observatory . During this time he was involved in various non-governmental organizations of the German peace and environmental movement . From 1990 Beckhardt reported on current science for ARD , volunteered at Deutsche Welle in 1992/1993 and worked from 1993 to 2005 as a reporter and editor for the ARD morning magazine and the Tagesschau , among others. a. in the ARD studios in Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv. In May 1995 he uncovered that, contrary to the assertion of the German government, Turkey was using German tanks in the war against the Kurds, and thus briefly shook the then Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. Beckhardt writes for various national newspapers. He is the author and editor of historical documentaries. In 2006 he became editor of the WDR science magazine Quarks on WDR television , and in 2018 the radio show of the same name was added on WDR5 . In addition, until 2016 he headed the WDR editorial team of the 3sat science magazine nano . Beckhardt was nominated for the German Television Prize in 2008 with Quarks & Co, received the RWTH Aachen Prize for Science Journalism in 2009, the Ergo Online Media Prize in 2011 and the Cologne Media Prize in 2012. In October 2014 the story of his family was published under the title “The Jew with the Swastika. My German Family ”during construction .
Beckhardt is a regular visitor to Eintracht Frankfurt's home games .
Publications (selection)
- Dive in! - Galapagos above and below water , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 18, 2018
- When the state fails - After the events on New Year's Eve in Cologne , Jüdische Allgemeine, January 14, 2016
- Stay! Why we Jews should stay in Europe , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 27, 2015
- The Jew with the swastika. My German family , built in 2014
- Circumcised and Traumatized - On Circumcision in Judaism , Frankfurter Rundschau, 23 August 2012
- Press law in practice (with Christoph Maria Fröhder and others), netzwerk recherche 2005
- Neither sheep nor wolf. Soviet Union and Latin America 1917 to 1987 (with Marc Edelman and others), Latin America Observatory 1988
Films (selection)
- We had declared war on the state - on the history of the RAF and the Movement June 2nd (with Ingolf Gritschneder), WDR 1996
- The village in the Arctic. Climate research on Spitzbergen (with Hubert Feller), WDR 2001
- The fight for Opel (with Rainer Kuka, Markus Zeidler and others), WDR 2004
- The Jew with the Swastika (with Mathias Haentjes), WDR 2007
- Mission Rosetta ( Memento from November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (with Florian Bauer, Ulrich Grünewald and others), ARD 2014
Web links
- Lorenz Beckhardt on the homepage of the WDR
- Radio and TV reports about Lorenz Beckhardt:
- Interviews with Lorenz Beckhardt:
- Suddenly I was someone else !, The WDR5 table talk, WDR5, Cologne 2015
- "Because of Pegida I have to ...", Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin 2015
- The enemy must go! - on anti-Semitism and Israel, WDR2, Cologne 2014
- A job with consequences even in private life, General-Anzeiger, Bonn 2013
- "I squeezed every last spring like a lemon," reading points, 2013
- Articles by Lorenz Beckhardt in the nano-Klimablog
- Reporting by Lorenz Beckhardt from the 2013 World Climate Summit in Warsaw:
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beckhardt, Lorenz S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beckhardt, Lorenz Salomon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |