Martin S. Svoboda
Martin S. Svoboda (born December 23, 1907 in Breslau ; † January 10, 1992 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and television pioneer.
Svoboda was a trained seaman. During the war he was used as a verbal reporter in the propaganda company. He formed a team with Rudolf W. Kipp (later a documentary filmmaker and film producer) and the photographer Fritz Kempe (later head of the Hamburg State Image Office). From 1951 to 1960 he worked as the first and initially only editor for the Tagesschau at Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). After a related contract with the Neue Deutsche Wochenschau , he initially had the material scraps not used by the cinema weekly news cut up in a cellar in Hamburg's Heilwigstrasse to make a news program. As stipulated in his contract, he typed the text for it on his own portable typewriter. He transported the respective contribution in film cans by underground to an old bunker on the Heiligengeistfeld , from where the broadcast was broadcast. Svoboda, who always wore black-tinted sunglasses, spoke the news live from the off three times a week in the evenings . From 1960 until his retirement he acted as a broadcast manager. In this capacity he was responsible, among other things, for rosters for the Tagesschau spokesperson.
Martin S. Svoboda died of heart failure in Hamburg at the age of 84.
Web links
- Obituary for Svoboda. In: Der Spiegel , January 20, 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henning Venske: It was a pleasure for me. A biography. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2014. ISBN 978-3-86489-051-2 , pp. 235ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Svoboda, Martin S. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1992 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |