Lutz Bertram

Lutz Bertram (* 1953 in Wernigerode ) is a former German radio presenter. He first became known for the style of his interviews. When he was exposed as an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security , he gave up his regular radio activity in 1995.

Life

Lutz Bertram studied aesthetics, cultural theory and musicology in Berlin. From the 1980s he was a well-known radio host on the GDR youth broadcaster DT64 . He also worked as a journalist and book author. He brought out the biographies of Udo Lindenberg and Peter Maffay both in the GDR and in the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1991 he worked as a presenter of the morning magazine of the ORB radio broadcaster Radio Brandenburg . His moderation and especially his sensitive, but also highly sought-after interviews set him apart from the crowd of other radio presenters. He thus acquired a certain cult status in the Berlin-Brandenburg area . But critics also accused him of being clearly affected .

State Security staff

In January 1995 he had to confess to his Stasi work . In the 1980s, he passed on the knowledge he gained from acquaintance with numerous artists from the GDR as IM Romeo . He had justified his collaboration with experiences from 1978, when he was denied a passport and thus the possibility of an operation for a progressive eye disease, which ultimately led to his complete blindness . In his own words, something like this shouldn't happen to him again. In addition, Bertram was very reluctant to admit to the activities with which he was accused at the Stasi; in contrast to the radio presenter Jürgen Kuttner , who voluntarily came out as an IM (this could never be confirmed due to the lack of files). Ironically, shortly before his work as "IM Romeo" became known, Lutz Bertram sharply attacked the writer Christa Wolf and the politician and lawyer Gregor Gysi , accusing them of being mendacious about their (alleged) collaboration with the MfS and urging them to finally get together confess to their dirty past (Christa Wolf's IM work was not yet officially confirmed at that time). After his own Stasi work became known, he was dismissed from the broadcasting corporation . Since then, he has only managed to get back to the microphone every now and then, most recently in a one-time interview broadcast on Antenne Brandenburg with regional bishop Wolfgang Huber in 2003, and also as the moderator of a PDS election party , which was confusing for some viewers because Bertram was in his last weeks as a radio presenter as a bitter opponent of the PDS and its political staff.

literature

Lutz Bertram: Huhu, dear radio people. Audience with the breakfast director. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-86153-077-5
Klaus-Peter Wenzel : The Lutz Bertram case. Documentation of an entanglement. , Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-059-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Bertram, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German radio presenter, unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wernigerode