Lutz Lehmann (journalist)
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.
- 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 .
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 | |
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SURNAME | Lehmann, Lutz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 2019 |