Peter Wyden

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Peter H. Wyden (born Peter Weidenreich October 2, 1923 in Berlin ; died June 15, 1998 in Ridgefield , Connecticut ) was a German -American journalist and author .

Life

Peter Weidenreich was born into a Jewish family: his mother Helen Silberstein was a singer, his father Erich a businessman. From 1935 he attended the Jewish private school Dr. Goldschmidt in Berlin. One of his classmates was Stella Goldschlag , about whom Wyden published a book in 1993. The family fled to the United States in 1937. Peter Weidenreich studied at the City University of New York and then served in the Psychological Warfare Division of the United States Army in Europe at the end of World War II . In August 1945 he headed the local editorial office of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Berlin with the rank of sergeant , his two reporters were Egon Bahr and Peter Bönisch .

After the war, Peter Wyden worked as a reporter for the daily newspaper The Wichita Eagle and as a journalist for the daily newspaper The St. Louis Post-Dispatch . After that, he was a correspondent of the weekly magazine Newsweek in Washington, DC , and wrote for the Saturday Evening Post from the cities of Chicago and San Francisco . He was also an editor at McCall’s women's magazine and editor-in-chief of the Ladies' Home Journal .

After 1970 he wrote some books in New York City and later moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut , where he died in 1998.

family

Wyden was married three times. His first marriage to his wife Edith was his son Ron Wyden , who has been a representative of the US state of Oregon in the United States Senate since 1996 . Wyden published several books with Barbara, his second wife.

Wyden's uncle was the German anatomist and anthropologist Franz Weidenreich .

Fonts (selection)

  • Suburbia's Coddled Kids . Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1962.
  • The Hired Killers , with introductions by Karl Menninger and Estes Kefauver . Morrow, New York City, 1963.
  • The Bay of Pigs- The Untold Story. Simon and Schuster, New York City 1979, ISBN 0-671-24006-4
  • The Passionate War: The Narrative History of the Spanish Civil War . Simon and Schuster, New York City, 1983, ISBN 0-671-25330-1 .
  • with George Robert Bach: The Intimate Enemy: How to Fight Fair in Love and Marriage . Avon Books, 1983, ISBN 0-380-00392-9 .
    • German by Jutta and Theodor Knust: Arguing connects: rules for love and marriage . Gütersloh: Mohn, 1970
  • Day One: Before Hiroshima and After . Simon and Schuster, New York City, USA 1985, ISBN 0-671-46142-7 .
  • The Unknown Iacocca . Morrow, New York 1987, ISBN 0-688-06616-X .
    • German by Uta McKechneay: The true Iacocca: The other side of an American career. Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02508-3 .
  • Stella : One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany . Biography about Stella Goldschlag . Simon and Schuster, New York City 1992, ISBN 0-671-67361-0 .
  • The Wall: The Inside Story of Divided Berlin . Simon and Schuster, New York City 1989, ISBN 0-671-55510-3 .
  • The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler . Arcade Publishers, New York City 2001, ISBN 1-55970-532-9 .

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 838

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Wyden: "You didn't throw inkwells at Egon Bahr" , in: Dieter S. Lutz (Ed.): Thinking the unthinkable: Festschrift for Egon Bahr on his seventieth birthday . Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1992 ISBN 3-7890-2623-9 , p. 69
  2. ↑ a b Somini Sengupta: Peter Wyden, 74, Journalist And Father of Oregon Senator. In: nytimes.com. June 29, 1998. Retrieved November 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Stella , PhD at Steidl-Verlag, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Wyden, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wyden, Peter H .; Weidenreich, Peter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1998
Place of death Ridgefield , Connecticut