Paul Laven
Paul Laven (born December 11, 1902 in Mönchengladbach , † October 19, 1979 in Nidda ) was a German radio journalist and writer. He is considered one of the pioneers in radio reporting.
Life
After completing his studies, Paul Laven became department head for "Current Affairs" at Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG in 1926. He developed his own forms of current reporting for radio, especially free- speech radio reporting . He was considered popular with the public. His contributions to the main regatta on June 28, 1925, the first live broadcast of a German football championship on June 13, 1926 and the Olympic Games in 1936 , as well as football reports, reports on car races and interviews and reports outside of sport are well known.
As one of the few surviving radio recordings shows - from a clearly racist perspective via live reporting - Laven provided a description of the Japanese 10,000-meter runner Kohei Murakoso that was characteristic of many of the 1936 Olympic reports: “... the little, kicking yellow man has fought for the top. "
From 1936 to 1939 he worked for the Reichsender Leipzig. From 1939 he was chief spokesman for the Reichssendeleitung in Berlin, a position that he later had to give up. After the end of the Second World War he did not succeed in resuming his activity in the radio and he became active as a writer.
He died in 1979 in the Bad Salzhausen district of Nidda .
Works
- Fair play. Master of sport in combat. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachf., Stuttgart 1950; extended new edition: Wilhelm-Limpert-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1961
- Colorful exciting world . Schlichtenmayer, Tübingen am Neckar 1964.
Awards
- 1967: First prize for sports stories from the Association of German Sports Press for the book Bunte Exciting World .
literature
- Frank Biermann: Paul Laven. Radio coverage between topicality and art. , Münster [u. a.] 1989.
- Ulrich Heitger: From time signals to political means of leadership: Development tendencies and structures of broadcast news programs in the Weimar Republic 1923–1932 . Dissertation, LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6853-2 .
- Walther F. Kleffel: The most beautiful stories from sport . In: Die Zeit , No. 51/1968, review of Fair Play
- Winfried B. Lerg: Laven, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 751 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Laven in the catalog of the German National Library
- CV with audio quotes (German Broadcasting Archive )
- Filmography and date of birth on filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Kett: How the people of Fürth invented public listening . In: Fürther Nachrichten of May 11, 2013.
- ↑ with listening quote
- ↑ Skips for Mao . In: Die Zeit , No. 30/1968, mention of the price
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Laven, Paul |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German radio journalist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchengladbach |
DATE OF DEATH | 19th October 1979 |
Place of death | Nidda |