Ludwig Carpenter
Ludwig Zimmerer (* 1924 in Augsburg ; † September 18, 1987 in Krakow ) was a German journalist and correspondent for the West German media in Poland. In 1956 Zimmerer was the first journalist from the Federal Republic to settle in Poland and remained in Poland as a long-serving West German correspondent until the end of his life.
First Zimmerer was the correspondent of the newspaper Die Welt , which he left in 1961 and was hired by Norddeutscher Rundfunk as a radio correspondent for ARD.
Shortly after arriving, Zimmerer met Joanna Olczak , a writer and co-founder of the Kraków cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami . After the divorce in 1957 from his first wife who remained in Germany, Zimmerer married Joanna in 1959 and in 1961 became the father of the future journalist and translator Katarzyna Zimmerer .
In 1965, Zimmerer and his family moved into a row house in the Warsaw district of Saska Kępa. In 1968 the family split up, Joanna moved to Krakow with her daughter, Ludwig stayed in Warsaw.
He got to know the journalist Joanna Szczęsna, editor of the KOR information bulletin. Because she was dismissed as an editor at the state radio in 1977, Ludwig Zimmerer employed her in his collection of Polish folk art.
Ludwig Zimmerer married for the third time at the end of 1981. In January 1982 he became seriously ill and came to Krakow, where he died in 1987.
In addition to his journalistic activities, Zimmerer also worked on a collection of Polish folk art consisting of around five thousand exhibits, which he dedicated to the Museum of Ethnology in Warsaw .
Ludwig Zimmerer translated almost all of Sławomir Mrożek's plays .
Ludwig Zimmerer was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta posthumously in 2013 by President Bronisław Komorowski .
Web links
- Hansjakob Stehle : Obituary. ZEIT ONLINE , October 2, 1987, accessed on December 23, 2019 (free registration required).
- Jadwiga Korte: Three loves in Poland. Ludwig Zimmerer: journalist - collector - dreamer. In: Deutschlandfunk / NDR . 2011, Retrieved December 23, 2019 (retransmitted December 20, 2019).
literature
- From the Art of the Polish People: Pieces d. Ludwig Zimmerer Collection in Warsaw. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-458-32148-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carpenter, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, correspondent for the West German media in Poland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1987 |
| Place of death | Krakow |