Marianne Regensburger

Marianne Regensburger (born April 6, 1921 in Fürth ; † April 28, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German publicist and journalist .

biography

Regensburger was born in Fürth in 1921, where she grew up in an assimilated Jewish family. Heinz Kissinger, who was two years younger than him, later known as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger , lived in the neighborhood.

In 1939 she emigrated to the USA via Great Britain and studied with a Quaker scholarship .

After her return from the USA, she began her journalistic career in 1948 at the Münchner Neue Zeitung before joining Theodor W. Adorno at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt in 1953 . In the 1950s she published numerous articles on political, historical and cultural topics in the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Marianne Regensburger was a well-known commentator at RIAS in the 1960s . In 1964, Regensburger was one of the numerous prominent left-liberal Berlin authors who wanted to transform the Spandauer Volksblatt from an insignificant advertising paper into an alternative to the Springer press, which then dominated the Berlin newspaper market. In the second half of the 1960s she got involved in the APO environment , u. a. she was vice chairman of the legendary Republican Club . Shortly after the assassination attempt on her friend Rudi Dutschke , she appeared in public at a demo against the Axel Springer publishing house , which was spread widely by the Springer newspapers and which caused her anger at her employer, RIAS. So she finally moved to the ZDF studio in Berlin, headed by her former RIAS colleague Hanns Werner Schwarze , where she worked as an editor at Kennzeichen D from 1971 .

Regensburger converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1962, not least because of her experiences with the Quakers in the USA during her emigration. In the last years of her life she was a committed Christian pacifist who regularly took part in activities such as the Easter marches .

Marianne Regensburger died in Berlin in 2002 at the age of 81. Her grave is in the St.-Annen-Kirchhof in Berlin-Dahlem .

Works and anthologies

• Marianne Regensburger: Comments on the time 1950–2000 , Verlag am Park, 2004, ISBN 978-3897930940

Publications

• Where no tree blooms - a couple's path through prison to freedom: Die Zeit, No. 50, December 12, 1957 Link

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Loy: Born 1921 , obituary in the "Tagesspiegel", Berlin, May 10, 2002 Link
2. ↑ Christian Walther: A little 'New York Times'. . In: the daily newspaper , January 1, 2016.
3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 564.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marianne Regensburger in the catalog of the German National Library