Rainer Höynck

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Rainer Höynck, 1949

Rainer Höynck (born June 10, 1927 in Berlin ; † August 10, 2018 ) was a German cultural journalist .

Life and professional stations

During the Second World War he was an air force helper and was briefly captured by the Soviets . After the end of the war he did an internship with Jürgen Fehling . He then became an editorial assistant at the Berlin “ Tagesspiegel ” under the editor-in-chief Erik Reger . From 1948 he worked at RIAS Berlin (radio in the American sector), first as a reporter (his reports of the uprising of June 17, 1953 are preserved as audio documents), then with increasing specialization in culture.

From 1963 to 1988 he was head of the RIAS department for cultural criticism and cultural policy (theater, fine arts, film, architecture, design, cultural word). For decades he also moderated the RIAS “Long Nights” during the Berlin Jazz Days. From 1958 he worked continuously for television, especially for the broadcaster Free Berlin , and was an author and director of cultural and documentary films. He was the cultural correspondent for various newspapers and magazines, for example the Handelsblatt , and moderator of numerous public events on the visual arts, theater, film, urban development and cultural policy.

Rainer Höynck was a founding member of the NGBK (New Society for Fine Art) and its president from 1992 to 1999. He died in August 2018 at the age of 91.

Rainer Höynck alongside Katharina Thalbach at the Berlin Theatertreffen in the 1980s

Book publications

  • Berlin at second glance (with Heinz Ohff and Christian Chruxin), Stapp Verlag Berlin 1980
  • The Berlin Buch (with Heinz Ohff), Stapp Verlag 1987
  • Change of look. 25 years of the Berlin artist program (with Stefanie Endlich), Argon Verlag Berlin 1988
  • 21 - what now? Two decades of the New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin 1989
  • Berlin Ring . Pictures and texts (with Ulrich Eckhardt and Stefanie Endlich), Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Berlin 1990
  • as well as numerous articles in catalogs, documentations, yearbooks and magazines.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin cultural journalist Rainer Höynck has died. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Höynck, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2018