Peter Bender

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Peter Bender (born June 16, 1923 in Berlin ; † October 11, 2008 there ) was a German ancient historian and journalist . According to Spiegel , he was considered the journalistic pioneer of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik .

Life

Peter Bender passed his Abitur in 1941 at the Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedenau ( Egon Bahr was one of his classmates ) and, after studying ancient history, became a Dr. phil. PhD .

Since 1954 he worked as a journalist, u. a. as an editor at the SFB . From 1961 to 1970 he was editor and commentator at WDR , from 1970 to 1988 Berlin correspondent for WDR . From 1973 to 1975 ARD correspondent (radio) in Warsaw . Since 1963 he has also been the author of Die Zeit , since 1966 also of Merkur and the magazine The Month . In 1968/1969 he was also a Senior Assistant at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

In the radio and in the press he made a name for himself in assessing the German-German relationship and by commenting on German Ostpolitik, but was also discussed controversially .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 2008: Between East and West. In: Achim Engelberg : But where does Europe end? - Cross-border commuters between London and Ankara. Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-320-02132-X .
  • 2007: Germany's return. An undivided post-war history 1945–1990. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-608-94466-4 .
  • 2003: World Power America - The New Rome. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-96002-3 .
  • 1996: episode or epoch? On the history of divided Germany. DTV, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-04686-4 .
  • 1995: The New Ostpolitik and its consequences. From building the wall to unification. DTV, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04528-0 .
  • 1993: Because the country has to change. In: Marion Dönhoff : Because the country needs reconciliation. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-498-01299-1 .
  • 1992: our inheritance. What was the GDR - what remains of it? Luchterhand, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-630-87110-0 .
  • 1981: The end of the ideological age. Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88680-001-6 .
  • 1968: Ten reasons for recognizing the GDR. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1968.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publicist Peter Bender has died. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved June 5, 2010 .
  2. ↑ "His thesis of a policy determined by vital security interests [...] cannot explain this phenomenon satisfactorily because it does not do justice to the complexity of historical events and the interdependence of domestic and foreign policy." ( Neurotic Giants - Review by Stefan Rebenich in DZ of July 31, 2003, p. 37.)
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2008
Place of death Berlin