Michael Schwarze (journalist)

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Michael Schwarze (born February 21, 1945 in Ravensburg , † April 24, 1984 in Bad Mergentheim ) was a German journalist. From 1973 until his untimely death he was the features editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Career

Schwarze received his doctorate in 1973 from the University of Frankfurt with a thesis on the popular front strategy of the KPD . During his student days he was temporarily chairman of the Social Democratic University Association (SHB) . He was considered an “outsider in the bourgeois house” of the FAZ, a figure who made the feature pages of this newspaper so attractive. After Schwarzes death, the later head of literature and editor Frank Schirrmacher had the reputation of being "the new Michael Schwarze".

In the features section of the FAZ, he worked for more than a decade under the then editor Joachim Fest , primarily as an editor for the film sector. He became known to a larger audience through the satirical article Christmas without television , which appeared in the FAZ on December 23, 1977 and was not labeled as satire. It alleged that “the federal government under Helmut Schmidt had decided to cease television broadcasting on Christmas Eve and Christmas in order to strengthen the community and family feeling. The turmoil that caused then can no longer be imagined today; Letters were received in the amount of wash baskets that went as far as emigration, murder and suicide threats. ”After Schwarzes death, Suhrkamp published a collection of essays with the title of the satirical article.

Michael Schwarze died of cancer at the age of 39.

Publications

  • Proletarian Party and Civil Legacy. Studies on the history and theory of literary heritage in the Popular Front strategy of the KPD. Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1973. ( Table of Contents )
  • Luis Buñuel . In self-testimonials and picture documents. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1981.
  • Christmas without television. Cultural policy essays, glosses, portraits. Edited by Volker Hage. With an obituary by Joachim Fest. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1984. ISBN 978-3-518-37643-0 .

literature

  • Michael Angele : Schirrmacher. A portrait. Aufbau-Verlag 2018. pp. 41–42.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Greiner, Obituary.
  2. ↑ Angele 2018, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Frank Schirrmacher: Strangeness and closeness. In: FAZ, September 23, 2006, p. 39. ( online )
  4. ↑ Angele 2018, p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Blacks, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1984
Place of death Bad Mergentheim