Peter Brinkmann
Peter Brinkmann (born March 15, 1945 in Cloppenburg ) is a German journalist .
Life
After graduating from high school, he signed up as a regular soldier in the German Armed Forces . He finished his service as first lieutenant in the reserve . From 1968 to 1975 he then studied law, economics and politics at the universities of Innsbruck, Münster, Hamburg and Lüneburg. He finished his studies with the first state examination in law. From 1975 Brinkmann worked as a journalist for the Bonn- based daily newspaper Die Welt , then as a business editor for the Hamburg edition of Bild . At the end of the 1980s he switched to the Hamburger Morgenpostonly to return some time later to the Bild-Zeitung, which sent him to the GDR as a correspondent during the fall of the Berlin Wall. He became known to a broad television audience as one of the questioners at the legendary opening of the Berlin Wall press conference with the Berlin SED leader Günter Schabowski . Brinkmann asked Schabowski after the new regulation came into force: “When does it come into effect?” Schabowski spoke the much-quoted sentence: “As far as I know, it will happen immediately.” Then the Bild-Zeitung put him as an Iraq correspondent of the first Gulf War. Well-known is the press photo that shows Brinkmann, whose face was badly marked by a bomb explosion, in a Baghdad hospital bed while Saddam Hussein visits him. His last position at the Bild newspaper was office manager in what was then the federal capital of Bonn.
After a short interlude as Bonn office manager for Tango magazine , Brinkmann returned to the Hamburger Morgenpost. From here he switched to the Berliner Kurier - here too he was again head of the Bonn office. From 1998 to 2010 Peter Brinkmann worked for the newspaper as chief correspondent for politics, economics and law in the capital city office, since then he has been a freelance journalist.
Since 2002, he has also moderated the program Lage Berlin on the local broadcaster tv.berlin , and since 2013 jointly responsible for the interview programs "Brinkmann und Asmuth" and "Brinkmann & König" together with the Austrian journalist Ewald König .
Works
- Headline Hunt. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1993, ISBN 3-404-60358-3 .
- Witness on site - Correspondent in the GDR '89 / 90 , edition ost, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-360-01860-1 .
- The NATO Expansion - German Unity and Eastern Expansion , edition ost, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-360-01873-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Brinkmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Brinkmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait ( Memento from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Myths of Riccardo Ehrman . EurActiv.de. October 21, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brinkmann, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cloppenburg , Germany |