Manfred Müller (journalist)
Manfred Müller (born January 15, 1940 in Hanover , † September 19, 2004 in Aue ) was a German journalist and radio director .
Life
As the son of a locksmith, Manfred Müller grew up in Oebisfelde and also graduated from high school there. From 1956 to 1960 he worked as a younghauer underground in the copper slate mining of the Mansfeld Combine in Eisleben . From 1960 to 1965 he attended the FDJ School in Halle-Brandberge and was involved in the preparation of the German Youth Meeting in East Berlin in 1964 as an employee of the FDJ district management in East Berlin - between 1962 and 1963 NVA service. Manfred Müller studied philosophy with Reinhard Mocek at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) . From 1965 to 1966, Müller worked as an editor for the district newspaper Freiheit in Halle and then switched to the company newspaper taktstrasse for the Halle-Neustadt construction project as an editor . He then worked from 1969 to 1972 at Büro für Städtebau und Architektur Halle as a public relations officer and press officer for chief architect Richard Paulick .
From 1973 to 1974 Müller worked as a work group leader at GDR television and from 1974 to 1976 he worked as an editor for the district newspaper Freie Erde in Neubrandenburg . This was followed from 1976 to 1978 as head of the construction workers' ensemble in Neubrandenburg and from 1981 to 1985 as a local brigadier in the LPG Mallin . As the deputy head of the radio drama department, Manfred Müller worked from 1985 to 1988 in Berlin for the GDR radio , for which he developed a synoptic radio drama calendar for mass mailing, a radio drama logo, the first advertising sticker and then went on to become a radio editor and reporter in 1988 Regional studio in Halle. When he criticized the coverage of the local elections in May 1988, he lost his job and went to Hettstedt , where he worked from 1989 to 1990 as the cinema director of the "Apollo-Lichtspiele".
On June 18, 1990, under the government of Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière, he was appointed State Broadcasting Director of the State of Saxony . For Sachsen Radio, with its regional studios in Bautzen , Chemnitz and Dresden, which had just emancipated itself from the central authority of the former GDR radio, Müller organized development loans from the Bavarian Radio and brought experienced employees from the Federal Republic of Germany to its board of directors: as technical director Werner Hinz from Deutschlandfunk , the inventor of the Hinz trill for the ARI traffic radio decoder , Detlef Kühn from the All-German Institute as administrative director and Uwe Eckhard Böttger from Deutschlandfunk as editor-in-chief. During Müller's ten-month term in office, he succeeded in turning a regional studio that had previously delivered six-hour program windows for Radio DDR I into a broadcaster with two and a half full programs - Saxony 1, Saxony 2 and Saxony 3.
On April 19, 1991 Manfred Müller was dismissed by the radio commissioner of the facility in accordance with Article 36 of the Unification Treaty , Mr. Rudolf Mühlfenzl . When a list of unofficial employees (IM) of the Ministry for State Security was published in Halle in 1992 , it contained a registration by Manfred Müller as IM "Stefan Redmann" from the mid-1970s.
After working for Sachsen Radio, Manfred Müller helped set up the private radio program Radio Brocken in 1991 and joined Radio Erzgebirge in 1993 . From 1995 until his death in 2004 he ran the media and training company "audioscop Schwarzenberg", where he was most recently involved in training local television makers and launched the German-Czech website www.begratlas.org with portraits of 300 locations on both sides. The burial took place in the cemetery in Oebisfelde.
Works
- watch TV
- There are things , TV magazine, articles, together with Willy Urbanek , 1972–1974
- Radio
- 1979: The Vice President , radio play with Kurt Böwe and Karlheinz Liefers , director: Fritz Göhler , Rundfunk der DDR
- 1984: Die Wrodowschen , radio play with Günter Grabbert , Werner Godemann a . a., director: Walter Niklaus , Rundfunk der DDR
- 1987: The wonderful goat - Director: Manfred Täubert (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1989: When I became a Jew , original audio play, director: Barbara Plensat , Rundfunk der DDR
- 1995: Waiting for occupiers - Spring 1945 in Schwarzenberg , feature with Horst Bollmann , director: Klaus Zippel , MDR
- 1999: Paradiesbauern - Mecklenburgs Dörfer im Wandel , Feature, Director: Vaclav Stawny, MDR
- Books
- Halle-Neustadt , illustrated book, together with Werner Bräunig and Hans-Jürgen Steinmann , Halle 1969
- Halle / Halle-Neustadt , city guide, together with Gerald Große, Dresden Verlag Zeit im Bild, 1974
- The life of an architect - portrait Richard Paulick , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle; Leipzig 1975
- Mecklenburg Switzerland among other photos: Gerald Große, Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-325-00212-9
- Protestants. Encounters with contemporaries. Portraits. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle; Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-354-00694-3 .
literature
- Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Manfred Müller, p. 66 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Langer: Remembering against forgetting: "Right at the bottom, right at the top" - the journalist Manfred Müller is dead.
- ↑ Sachsen Radio, An Intermezzo by Werner Hinz, Triangel, issue 12/2000, p. 128
- ↑ The living counter-evidence. The journalist and former regional broadcaster Manfred Müller is dead. Obituary for the director of SachsenRadio by Matthias Thalheim, in Triangel, issue 11/2004, p. 61
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and radio director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 2004 |
| Place of death | Aue |