Pierre C. Deason-Tomory

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Pierre Charles Deason-Tomory (born January 16, 1969 in Nuremberg ) is a German-American radio presenter and local politician ( SPD ).

Life

Youth, Family and Education

Deason-Tomory grew up as the son of a member of the US stationing forces and a German first in Nuremberg. In 1978 the family moved to Laufen (Salzach) . From 1978 and 1983 he had regular appearances as a child actor at the Landestheater in neighboring Salzburg , at the street theater of the Salzburg Festival and in radio play productions of the ORF Salzburg . In 1982 he played various roles in the ORF documentary series "Our television, our television". After the family moved back to Nuremberg again in 1983, Deason-Tomory dropped out of high school in 1986 and completed an internship at the local radio station "Neue Welle Franken" until 1988 . He was adopted as an adult by his foster father, the opera singer Nándor Barnabás Tomory. Opera baritone Jason Nandor Tomory is his brother.

journalism

From 1988 Deason-Tomory was editor and presenter there, at Radio F Nuremberg and Energy Berlin, until he switched to DT64 in 1992 , where he developed the satirical weekly review “Germany in traffic jams”. The two-hour format ran every Sunday afternoon. Deason-Tomory got out there in 1993 after disputes with the program management over the content of the program. After a short interlude at Radio Fritz , he worked as an author, editor, presenter and coach for Antenne Bayern , again Energy Berlin , MDR Sputnik , 104.6 RTL Berlin , Radio Hamburg , Kiss FM Berlin , Antenne Thuringia and Radio Lotte Weimar. He also works for the Heritage Radio Network . Since 2017 he has published articles in the features section of the left-wing daily Junge Welt .

At times he also worked as a worker in a US textile factory, as an accountant for a Turkish construction company, in the call center of a Berlin survey institute and at the grill of a hamburger stand.

politics

Deason-Tomory has been politically active since 1985, first as a school spokesman in the left school shop in the Nürnberg KOMM . In 1989 he became a member of the DKP , from which he switched to the PDS in Gera in June 1990 . In 2007 he was a founding delegate of the successor party Die Linke . He was electoral district employee of the member of parliament Thomas Hartung from 2009 until his resignation from the Thuringian state parliament in autumn 2014. From 2009 he was a member of the city council of Weimar and was sent to the social and cultural committee, to which he was also after his re-election Belonged again in 2014. In 2009 he and other members of the Weimar Left left the party and founded the short-lived New Left Weimar. Deason-Tomory has been a member of the SPD since 2012. After the dissolution of the city council group “New Left” founded in 2010 by splitting off from the left-wing parliamentary group and most recently led by Deason-Tomory, he joined the SPD parliamentary group with Hartung. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he did not run again.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The street theater is coming", Sandra Marchart, Anton Pustet Salzburg 2010, p. 236
  2. a b c geschichte-dt64.de
  3. See for example: Alte Tante Resterampe: Wahre SPD, in: Junge Welt, June 14, 2019, p. 11; You take what you get in: Junge Welt, December 16, 2019, p. 10; Drei im Weggla, in: Junge Welt, December 21, 2019, p. 10; Be afraid! The Thuringian Christmas story, in: Junge Welt, December 24, 2019, p. 10.
  4. young world, June 15, 2019.
  5. ^ Weimar City Councilor Deason joined the SPD Thuringian General, May 16, 2012 (accessed on May 18, 2012)
  6. ^ Weimar parliamentary group New Left has disbanded