Manfred Rexin
Manfred Rexin (born May 10, 1935 in Danzig ; † December 2, 2017 ) was a German reporter ( RIAS ) and non-fiction author.
Life
As an editor of a school newspaper, Rexin was one of the founders of the Federal Association of Youth Newspapers, Junge Presse , for whose 600 member newspapers he later published a press information service in Bonn . After graduating from high school in Flensburg , Rexin studied economics , sociology and political science at the University of Bonn and from the summer semester 1957 at the Free University of Berlin , where he also became a member of the SDS . In 1959 he became publicly known as the speaker of the student-organized congress against nuclear armament .
In the 1960s Rexin worked as a freelance journalist for magazines and radio stations and at the same time was politically active in the Berlin state board of the socialist Jung-Falken . In 1967 he co-founded the Republican Club . In 1970 he became a member of the Berlin editorial team of the ZDF , for which he contributed to the political magazine programs over there and to Kennzeichen D , Zeitzeichen , heute and Länderspiegel .
From 1978 he was editor-in-chief of the education program and from 1989 head of the main department for culture and contemporary history at the RIAS Berlin radio station .
Rexin was a long-time member of the historical commission of the Berlin SPD and co-founder of the Franz Neumann Archive (FNA). In these functions and with his radio documentaries, he contributed to researching the history of social democracy in Berlin.
Since 1997 he has been a member of the media council of the Berlin-Brandenburg media authority , which he represented on the board of trustees of the Potsdam-Babelsberg media school .
In 1999 the Otto Suhr Institute awarded him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa .
Fonts (selection)
- with Ansgar Skriver : The way to mass murder. One hundred years of anti-Semitism in Germany. 1960
- with Detlef Prinz : Examples of walking upright: Willi Bleicher . Helmut Simon . In the spirit of Carl von Ossietzky . Bund-Verlag : Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7663-0601-4
- The SPD in East Berlin from 1946 to 1961. Franz Neumann Archive Issue 5, Berlin 1989
- The development of science policy in the GDR. In: Science and Society in the GDR , ed. by Peter Christian Ludz , Munich 1971, pp. 78–121
- Left CVs: Erwin Beck , Reinhard Gericke , Alfred Gleitze , Horst Kollat , Edith Walz , Reinhard Walz , Irmgard Weiß , Peter Weiß . FNA 2005
Editorships
- Prussia and Social Democracy . Berlin 1981
- Union youth in the Weimar state. a documentary about the work of the youth union of the ADGB in Berlin. 1983
- Radio reminiscences. Memories of RIAS Berlin. 2nd Edition. Vistas, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89158-335-4
literature
- Nils Diederich : Manfred, the world explorer (obituary). In: Berlin Voice , No. 16/17, December 16, 2017, page 12
Web links
- Enrico Troebst: Manfred Rexin for his 70th birthday . SPD Berlin , May 10, 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice , tagesspiegel.de , published and accessed on December 17, 2017.
- ↑ Appeal to found the Republican Club (RC) . Berliner Manuskripte 1, May 1967, reproduced in the GLASNOST Information and Documentation System Berlin, accessed on December 18, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rexin, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German reporter (RIAS) and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 2017 |