Lutz Lehmann (journalist)

Lutz Lehmann

Lutz Lehmann (born February 5, 1927 in Stettin ; † January 2, 2019 ) was a German author and journalist who reported with Fritz Pleitgen as an ARD television correspondent from East Berlin and Moscow .

Life

Lehmann attended elementary school and the Askanische Oberschule in Berlin . After graduating from high school in 1944, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and paratroopers. After his release from British captivity and an agricultural apprenticeship in Schleswig-Holstein, he came back to Berlin in 1947. There he was initially an editorial volunteer, later an editor at Telegraf , then until 1951 editor at the newspaper Der Abend .

Lutz Lehmann then worked as a freelance journalist, primarily for radio and television, first from 1959 to 1965 for the Berliner Abendschau , then for the NDR political magazine Panorama and for Die Zeit und pardon . For his documentaries on June 17th and August 13th , he was awarded the Jakob Kaiser Prize of the then Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations in 1973 . In 1973 he was awarded the German Social Prize for his documentary reporting on the situation of the so-called Contergankinder .

From 1977 on, Lutz Lehmann reported from East Berlin, and later from the ARD studio in Moscow until he retired in 1987. His successor there was Gabriele Krone-Schmalz . Lehmann stayed in Moscow until 1992 and continued to work as a freelance journalist.

In 2005 Lutz Lehmann obtained a declaration of cease and desist against the NDR because he felt that he was misrepresented in a study about the influence of the MfS on Western journalists.

Fonts

With the dagger under the robe. How long should lawyers with a burden still hold office? In: Die Zeit 11/1965. March 12, 1965.; accessed on January 8, 2019
legal & opportun. Political justice in the Federal Republic. Voltaire Publishing House 1966
Complaints about teacher F. and other school examples of authoritarian tradition. Publishing house S. Fischer Frankfurt a. M., 1971
Like the air to breath. A journalist experiences perestroika. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1988. ISBN 978-3-455-08274-6

literature

Alexander Neubacher: journalists. Enemy object NDR. Spiegel dated October 31, 2005.

honors and awards

1973: Jakob Kaiser Prize
1975: German Social Award

Web links

Literature by and about Lutz Lehmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Lutz Lehmann (journalist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Lutz Lehmann in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 8, 2019 ( beginning of article freely available)
Kurt Sagatz: On the death of Lutz Lehmann: A former investigative journalist has died. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 6, 2019 .; accessed on January 7, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 5, 2019, accessed January 6, 2019 .
↑ Rumor mill. Who will succeed Lothar Loewe in East Berlin? In: The time . February 4, 1977. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
↑ Andreas Förster: Poison spider in the north . The NDR withdraws a study on the influence of the Stasi on the station after protests. In: Berliner Zeitung , November 10, 2005.

personal data
SURNAME	Lehmann, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	2nd January 2019

[1] Obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 5, 2019, accessed January 6, 2019 .

[2] Rumor mill. Who will succeed Lothar Loewe in East Berlin? In: The time . February 4, 1977. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .

[3] Andreas Förster: Poison spider in the north . The NDR withdraws a study on the influence of the Stasi on the station after protests. In: Berliner Zeitung , November 10, 2005.