Manfred Buchwald

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Manfred Harald Buchwald (* 31 July 1936 in Oberhausen , † 30 June 2012 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German political journalist and a PhD historian . Until his resignation as director of the Saarländischer Rundfunk in 1996, he held numerous key positions in various mass media . Then he worked as a freelance publicist.

During his media career, Buchwald was seen as an unconventional source of ideas with courageous concepts and was a constant critic of the corporate-directed multimedia development, which is increasingly evading democratic control.

Buchwald defined his professional ethical credo as follows: "A journalist is not good when he is red or black, he is good when he is a journalist."

Life

In his youth, Buchwald moved frequently and attended schools in Essen, Berlin and Fredeburg. In 1958 he passed his Abitur in Oberhausen . From 1959 Buchwald worked as a freelancer in the Oberhausen local editorial office of the Neue Ruhr Zeitung . He then studied modern history and literature in Münster and Kiel . At the same time, he began training at Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden and Mainz, which he completed in 1962. He then worked as an editor for state politics at Südwestfunk in Mainz. In 1964 he received his doctorate in Kiel on the subject of the cultural image of America as reflected in German newspapers and magazines 1919-1931 . From 1965 to 1980 he was head of department and deputy head of the television department at Südwestfunk Landesstudio Rheinland-Pfalz in Mainz. He worked as a moderator and commentator for ARD until 1996. From 1978 to 1981 he was chairman of the German Association of Journalists (DJV).

From 1981 to 1983 he was also editor-in-chief of ARD- Tagesthemen , from 1983 to 1988 editor-in-chief of television for HR and from 1989 to 1996 director of SR , succeeding Hubert Rohde . During his tenure at Saarländischer Rundfunk, he mainly expanded the television program and the SR 2 cultural radio . On his initiative, the 15-minute news program 3direkt (today: current ) was started every evening . He also introduced Saartext , the SR's teletext program . Another focus of his work was cross-border cooperation with radios in Luxembourg and France . Following his post as director, Buchwald received an honorary professorship at the Free University of Berlin.

Buchwald lived in Fuchstal in the Landsberg am Lech district in Upper Bavaria . In 2012 he died there after a long and serious illness at the age of 75.

Publications

  • Manfred Buchwald (ed.). In great shape? - Comments on the 40th birthday of the Basic Law . Bleicher, Gerlingen 1989. ISBN 978-3-88350-024-9
  • Manfred Buchwald. Media democracy. On the way to becoming an incapacitated citizen . Structure of the Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 1997. ISBN 978-3-7466-8508-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Buchwald, Manfred Harald, p. 62 .
  2. ^ Manfred Harald Buchwald. In: whoswho.de. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Manfred Buchwald , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/1996 of September 30, 1996, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on July 18, 2020 ( beginning of article freely available)
  4. ↑ http://www.ifp.uni-mainz.de/index.php?article_id=146 under Lecturers
  5. ^ German Association of Journalists : DJV mourns ex-chairman Manfred Buchwald. Verbaende.com, July 2, 2012, accessed September 7, 2012 .
  6. ↑ a b http://web.ard.de/ard-chronik/index/8154?year=2012
personal data
SURNAME Buchwald, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchwald, Manfred Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and director of the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2012
Place of death Landsberg am Lech