Peter Leonhard Braun

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Peter Leonhard Braun (born February 11, 1929 in Berlin ) is a German feature writer and former radio editor.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1948, Peter Leonhard Braun studied economics at the Free University of Berlin-Dahlem and graduated in 1953 with a degree in "Sociology of Broadcasting". In 1953 he began as a feature writer and radio columnist for the Berlin studio of the NWDR Hamburg-Cologne, and later to work for the broadcaster Free Berlin. As a freelance writer and director for radio, he worked mainly in Berlin, 1963 also in Paris and 1964/1965 in London.

He became famous in 1967 with his stereophonic documentary on industrial animal breeding for chickens . Other well-known features are hyenas (1971) and bells in Europe (1973).

From 1974 on, Peter Leonhard Braun was head of the feature department of the former SFB for more than two decades . His successor was Wolfgang Bauernfeind .

From 1973 to 1995 Peter Leonhard Braun organized the International Feature Conference , an annual world conference for the makers of radio features. From 1979 on he was responsible for the radio area and from 1983 also for the television area in the international Prix ​​Futura Berlin and since 1988 also organizes the Prix ​​Europa .

Radio features

  • 1955 Don't be an ant for once , SFB
  • 1955 To the corner bar ; SFB
  • 1956 Berliner Stroll: To the clairvoyant , SFB
  • 1957 Berlin stroll: Past the book cart , SFB
  • 1957 Berliner Stroll: In den Mai or School of the Young Men I , SFB
  • 1957 Berliner Stroll: On Freier's Feet or Schuler der Junge Männer II , SFB
  • 1957 Fruchthof Berlin , directed by L. Kompatzki, Deutsche Welle / SFB / Radio Bremen
  • 1957 Die Vergessenen (not recognized refugees) , WDR / Deutsche Welle
  • 1957 Summer on the Havel , Deutsche Welle / SFB
  • 1957 Berlin Bathtub (Havel in Summer) , SFB
  • 1957 Berlin Zoo station , Deutsche Welle
  • 1957 Berlin stories I , u. a. with Heinz Drache , Heidemarie Theobald , Wolfgang Wölfer a. a .; Director: Tom Toelle , SFB
  • 1957 Berlin Stories II , SFB
  • 1958 The sun goes down in the east - 25 years of dictatorship , WDR
  • 1958 Tempelhof Airport - Berlin's bridge to the world , with Herbert Stass ; Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug , SFB
  • 1958 The besieged city , with Heinz Giese , Klaus Miedel ; Director: Tom Toelle; SFB
  • 1958 Berliner Stroll: Spring window parade , SFB
  • 1959 Berlin Stories IV , SFB
  • 1959 Bagatelle in Pink , SFB
  • 1959 The Berlin Stock Exchange - A Chapter of Berlin Economic History , SFB
  • 1959 Berliner Stroll: At an early hour , SFB
  • 1959 Berlin stories V (summer night, magnolias, Oktoberfest) , SFB
  • 1959 Berlin Stories VI , SFB
  • 1960 The Berliner , SFB / WDR
  • 1960 fashion capital Berlin , with Klaus Miedel; Director: Tom Toelle; SFB
  • 1961 vacation in Cornwall , with Peter Mosbacher , Klaus Miedel; Director: Siegfried Niemann, co-production: SFB / WDR
  • 1961 Forbidden Paths , SFB
  • 1961 In the background the Eiffel Tower - A Berliner in Paris , director: Rolf von Goth, co-production: SFB / SWF
  • 1962 Parisian knick-knacks , co-production: SFB / SWF
  • 1963 debut in Bayreuth , with Rolf Henninger; Director: Siegfried Niemann; Coproduction: SFB / SWF
  • 1964 Parisian filigree , with Wolfgang Kieling , director: Tom Toelle, coproduction: SFB / WDR / SWF
  • 1964 London evening , with Heiner Schmidt , Gert Westphal and Herbert Fleischmann ; Director: Hans Bernd Müller , co-production: SFB / WDR / SWF
  • 1965 London Report , with Paul Edwin Roth , Klaus Miedel and Ernst Jacobi ; Director: Hans Bernd Müller, co-production: SFB / WDR / SWF
  • 1965 Never play blind man's cow with Ricarda Benndorf and Heinz Klevenow ; Director: Hans Bernd Müller, co-production: SFB / WDR / SWF
  • 1965 Permit, a ghost , with Ricarda Benndorf, Heinz Klevenow, Jürgen Thormann , Gert Haucke u. a .; Director: Hans Bernd Müller, co-production: SFB / SWF / WDR
  • 1967 Hühner , with Joachim Nottke , Gert Haucke, Heinz Giese u. a., sound: Günter Genz and Karl Heinz Lalla, director: Hans Bernd Müller, co-production: SFB / BR / WDR
  • 1968 Catch as Catch Can , with Peter Mosbacher, sound: Günter Genz, director: Peter Leonhard Braun, co-production: SFB / WDR / BR / SR
  • 1969 Gawking with your ears , SFB
  • 1970 8:15 am, operating room II, hip plasty , sound: Günter Genz, director: Peter Leonhard Braun, co-production: SFB / BR / WDR
  • 1971 Hyenas, plea for a despised predator , with Günter König , sound: Dieter Großmann, director: Peter Leonhard Braun, co-production: SFB / WDR / BR / NDR / SR / SRG Basel / NOS-Hilversum
  • 1973 Bells in Europe , with Günter König, sound: Dieter Großmann, director: Peter Leonhard Braun, co-production: SFB / BR / NDR / SR / WDR / BRT BRÜSSEL / ORF Vienna / ORTF Paris / RDRS Studio Basel / NOS Hilversum, also as Audiobook CD, Der Audio Verlag 2000

Television feature

  • 1961 Berlin transit - rendezvous with an 'attractive' industry , director: Tom Toelle , SFB, first broadcast: April 13, 1961, ARD

Books

  • Vacation in Cornwall. 4 features in the Sender Free Berlin . Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1965.
  • Chicken. Catch as catch can. 8.15 a.m. OP III hip replacement. Hyenas. 4 feature texts . Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1972.

Awards

Quote

“The feature is the misunderstood subject. It is the form of larger word production that is most commonly used and least known about. In particular, ignorance and misunderstanding are widespread where one expects it: among experts. The birth and nature of the feature can still be clearly identified on the horizon of the wireless creation story. It could be stated that the feature was born with the radio, because in addition to its mere transmission function (music, lecture), the design function (effective use of the radio possibilities) also stood from the beginning. And the new know-how for the production of word endings was called (in England) Feature. Or you can talk about it, when the feature was in its medial cradle, the two fairies in charge floated over and oracles.

The fairy godmother: "It should be able to do everything that the radio can, it should grow with it and multiply millions of times, it should have its liveliness and diversity ... it just needs a wonderful name."

The Evil Fairy: "We call it a feature."

Good fairy: "You know, in the beginning, of course, nobody really understands what you can do with the radio, so our feature should try out everything, small programs and large, simple and difficult ... Would you like to add another wish?"

Evil Fairy: "It should be suitable for as much as possible."

That was the curse: the versatility. Talent and condemnation at the same time. Bad name: girls for everything. Useful for every word-producing department and therefore mostly without affiliation, not settled. The gypsy of the radio, the eternal Jew, the Rumpelstiltskin. You have to be clear about this basic conflict. "

- Peter Leonhard Braun : With ribbon and tape (III) Radio Feature - Myth and Practice, in: medium, magazine for radio, television, film, press, issue 8, Frankfurt am Main, August 1981, pages 27-28.

literature

  • Peter Leonhard Braun: With ribbon and tape (III) radio feature - myth and practice. , in: medium, magazine for radio, television, film, press, issue 8, Frankfurt am Main, August 1981, pages 27–28.
  • Thomas Östreicher: Lots of chickens. Feature Pope Peter Leonhard Braun is leaving the SFB. In: Medium , Jg. 25, H. 2 (1995): pp. 25-27.
  • Sabine Rauh: The role of the 'chickens' in radio history. How Peter Leonhard Braun shaped the feature department of the SFB. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 14, 1990.

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Peter Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German feature author and former radio editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin