Lothar Loewe

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Lothar Loewe at a lecture in 2009

Lothar Loewe (born February 9, 1929 in Berlin ; † August 23, 2010 there ) was a German journalist . He became known as an ARD correspondent in Washington, DC , Moscow and East Berlin .

Life

Born in Berlin, he spent his childhood and youth in Landsberg an der Warthe until January 1945 . He experienced the battle for Berlin as a Hitler Youth .

Loewe's journalistic career began with West Berlin newspapers. For the Berliner Blatt, Der Abend , he reported in 1953 on the uprising of June 17 in the German Democratic Republic and in 1956 as one of the few Western reporters on the Hungarian uprising . He later switched to television. As a correspondent for ARD in Washington in the early 1960s, he reported on historical events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy , but also on the reactions in the United States to the construction of the Berlin Wall .

From 1967 to 1970, Loewe was an ARD correspondent in Moscow after Gerd Ruge . From the end of 1974 he reported from East Berlin as a television correspondent for ARD. Through his reporting on the self-immolation of Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz in August 1976, the case also reached the public in the GDR. On December 22nd, 1976 the GDR withdrew his accreditation, as a result of which he had to leave the GDR territory within 48 hours. The reason was the following comment by Loewes in the Tagesschau on December 21, 1976: "Here in the GDR every child knows that the border troops have strict orders to shoot people like rabbits." The GDR government rated this statement as one "Gross interference in the internal affairs of the GDR".

“That was what will probably go down in media history as the 'rabbit comment'. I confess that I could have formulated the sentence more skillfully and precisely. But the wall before my eyes, where the border police had only recently shot at an East Berlin boy, the mysterious car accident, the constant confrontation with Stasi men and people's police - it was a miracle that I suddenly lost my composure for a few seconds and lost the calm reflection? "

- Lothar Loewe

Between 1983 and 1986 Loewe was director of the SFB . His tenure, however, was not very happy. The end should be brought about by a vote to vote, which was unique in the history of public service broadcasting until then. Loewe anticipated this procedure by terminating the contract.

In 1992, Lothar Loewe was in charge of the former East Berlin broadcaster Deutschlandsender Kultur as radio representative for ARD. In 1994 the Deutschlandradio emerged from it. Most recently Loewe worked as a columnist for the Bild newspaper .

Lothar Loewe died at the age of 81 and was buried in the municipal forest cemetery in Dahlem (grave no. 014/122) in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf .

Honors

Works

book

  • Lothar Loewe: The class enemy comes in the evening . Impressions between the Elbe and the Oder. Ullstein books 656, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1977. ISBN 3-548-00656-6 .

Movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TV journalist Lothar Löwe has died . DPA notification dated August 23, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b “In the evening the class enemy comes” In: Der Spiegel 37/1977
  3. ↑ The grave of Lothar Loewe. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed November 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Loewe, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 2010
Place of death Berlin