Peter Gatter

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Peter Michael Gatter (born October 14, 1943 in Breslau ; † August 28, 1997 in Stöckte ) was a German journalist , radio and television presenter . He is the great-grandson of the Silesian poet Paul Barsch .

youth

Peter Gatter came in 1943 as the son of Ludwig Gatter (1919–1957) and Ursula Gatter nee. Also born in Breslau. He grew up in Aachen and Cologne , where his father, his second wife, married to the WDR - radio journalist Magda gate born Weber (1915–2007), lived as the features editor of the Kölnische Rundschau . After Peter Gatter had passed the Abitur in 1964, he studied economics , sociology and political science . During his studies he worked for various radio stations.

Activity as a television journalist

After completing his studies, he initially worked as a reporter for the WDR's early magazine . From 1975 he worked as a reporter and moderator. In 1976 he was commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Nairobi to set up a television school. From 1977 Gatter was an ARD television correspondent in Poland for four years . There he took part in the occupation of the Lenin shipyard in Gdańsk by the Solidarność union and was able to smuggle the first television images (cameraman was Hans-Jürgen Gersonde) of this event into the West. Under pressure from the regime, Peter Gatter's accreditation ended after the end of the first Solidarność Congress, and the ARD had to withdraw him. In November 1981, shortly before martial law was proclaimed in Poland, he handed over the ARD studio, which was severely hampered by the measures in its work, in Warsaw's Ulica Alzacka 7 to his successor Claus Richter .

In 1981 Peter Gatter was appointed head of the " Panorama " department by NDR and moved to Ahrensburg . At the same time he became deputy editor-in-chief of NDR television. The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Lech Wałęsa in 1983 he accompanied his wife and son of the winner, who renounced under political pressure to leave the country and the personal acceptance of the ceremony, after Oslo . On August 1, 1987, Gatter became a correspondent for ARD in Singapore , and from August 1, 1992, he was head of television and deputy director of the NDR state broadcasting company Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Rostock .

On August 28, 1997, Gatter died of cancer at the age of 53. His grave is on the Heide cemetery in Heiligenthal near Lüneburg .

Awards

In 1980 Peter Gatter received the Golden Camera .

Works

  • Autumn in Gdańsk. In: Frank Grube / Gerhard Richter (ed.): The Polish fight for freedom. History, documentation, analysis. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1981, pp. 221-238, ISBN 3-455-08787-6
  • The white and red dream. Poland's path between freedom and foreign rule. Düsseldorf: Econ-Verlag 1983 ISBN 3-430-13086-7
  • The challenger. Gerhard Schröder in conversation with Peter Gatter. Munich: Kindler 1986. ISBN 3-463-40036-7
  • The climbers. A political portrait of the Greens. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1987. ISBN 3-455-08657-8

Web links

Obituary as an audio file from the NDR broadcast "Panorama"

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , In: Der Spiegel 36/1997, September 1, 1997
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Peter Gatter
personal data
SURNAME Gate, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gatter, Peter Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, radio and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1997
Place of death Hesitated