Peter Brierley Johnson

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Peter Johnson (left) in conversation with Alan Bullock (1991)

Peter Brierley Johnson (* 1925 in Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, † October 27, 2016 in Leeds ) was a British journalist and translator.

Life

Peter Johnson was a member of the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946 . In 1944 he was an RNVR officer-trainee at the Royal Naval College , Greenwich. In 1946 he was stationed in Hamburg, where he met his future wife Elfi, b. Kowitz (1924-2008) know. They married that same year. The couple lived in Shelf for three years, from 1947 to 1950 when they moved to London. Peter and Elfi Johnson had two sons.

Peter Johnson initially worked for seven years for British local newspapers such as the Bradford Halifax Courier and Telegraph & Argus, before joining Reuters in London in 1954 on Fleet Street. Johnson opened the first Reuters office in May 1959, as the first agency in western countries in East Berlin . In 1961, Johnson reported as a reporter from the Eichmann trial in Israel . From 1962 to 1964 he was head of the Reuter office in Moscow . In 1964 he was expelled for allegedly defamatory reporting on the Soviet Union . From 1965 until his retirement in 1986 he worked for the BBC in West Berlin and from 1971 as a correspondent from London. From 1968 to 1969 he was chairman of the Association of the Foreign Press in Berlin. He then worked as a freelance author, translator and journalist a. a. for BBC World News . Peter Johnson was a specialist for the Soviet Union and the former Eastern Bloc. His reports appeared among others. a. in The Washington Post and the Times.

Peter Johnson and his wife Elfi worked as translators and editors for many years.

Peter Johnson was a member of the National Union of Journalists, Foreign Press Association, The Institute of Translation and Interpreting.

Publications

As an author
  • Reuter Reporter in Divided Germany 1955–58. Studio Poligrafii [&] Tagman (1998)
  • Reuter Reporter Among the Communists 1958-59. Tagman Press, to Imprint of Tagman Worldwide Ltd .; 1st Ed. edition (December 1, 2000)
  • Roving Reuter Reporter: 1959-1961 Tagman Press, to Imprint of Tagman Worldwide Ltd. (January 1, 2003)
  • Working as the BBCs German Service Representative and News Correspondent in West Berlin, 1965–1970. In Charmian Brinson , Richard Dove: 'Voice of Truth' - German-language Broadcasting by the BBC. Rodopi, 2003 ( excerpts online at Google Books)
  • Private Presley In Nicholas Moore, Sidney Weiland: Frontlines: Snapshots of History Pearson Education, 2001 ( excerpts online at Google Books)
  • Witnessing and Dictatorship: Reporting for Reuters and the BBC in The Other Germany: Perceptions and Influences in British-East German Relations, 1945-1990, Volume 52 of Contributions to England Research: Series of publications by the German England Research Working Group. Winter-Verlag eK, 2005 University of Michigan ISBN 3-89-639485-1 , ISBN 978-3-89639485-9
  • Great Britain Peter B. Johnson letter from Berlin BBC of April 26th, 1966 in Fritz Brühl: Views on Germany: a critical balance of 36 journalists from 30 countries, 20 years of international morning pint Econ Verlag, 1972 ISBN 3-43-011584-1 , ISBN 978-3-43011584-1
  • A Briton in East Berlin October 13, 1989 in Back to Germany: Revolution and Democratic Awakening in the GDR Rheinische Merkur Verlag Bouvier, 1990
  • Witness an agony in Back to Germany: Revolution and democratic awakening in the GDR. Rheinischen Merkur Verlag Bouvier, 1990
translation
  • Jörg Schönbohm: Two armies and one fatherland: The end of the Nationale Volksarmee. Translation into English by Peter and Elfi Johnson
Others
  • Stefan Berger, Norman LaPorte: Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949–1990. ISBN 978-1-84545697-9 . S. 86, 143. Berghahn Books, 2010 (English) - Excerpts online at Google Books
  • Herbert Wehner, Peter Johnson: Conversation between the Federal Minister for All-German Issues, Herbert Wehner, and the BBC employee in Berlin, Peter Johnson, on December 26, 1968 in the German-language program of the BBC, London. Volume 166 of Current Materials on the Germany Question. Federal Ministry for All German Issues, 1968 (3 pages)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Childs: Moshe Landau Judge: Who presided over the trial of Adolf Eichmann. The Independent, August 11, 2011
  2. ↑ Moscow Time correspondent Israel Shenker: picture of everyday life. Der Spiegel, May 13, 1964 (Note: "Censorship through expulsion")
  3. ↑ Entry on the website of the Association of the Foreign Press in Berlin (vap-deutschland.org)
  4. ^ Obituary: German "war bride" Elfi Johnson. ("Obituary: German 'war bride' Elfi Johnson") - Halifax Courier, March 26, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Peter Brierley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bradford , UK
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2016
Place of death Leeds