Reginald Rudorf

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Reginald Rudorf (born August 11, 1929 in Hamburg ; † May 31, 2008 in Alzenau near Aschaffenburg ) was a German journalist , GDR dissident , media critic and author . Since 1975 he has been the publisher of the media service rundy , which was continued by his son Tillmann.

Life

The social scientist, who grew up in Leipzig, attended the Thomas School and taught Marxist aesthetics in Leipzig and Halle. From the beginning of the 1950s, Rudorf, who belonged to the SED , was increasingly critical of the state party's Stalinist course.

In addition to teaching, Rudorf, who was a fan of jazz and the founder of the Leipzig Jazz Circle, gave lectures on this genre of music and the culture of the USA. He tried to create ideological support for jazz in the early GDR by classifying it as original proletarian music and moderated jazz broadcasts on the radio. During the Cold War , his lecture events were well attended, but were not wanted by the SED cultural politicians. An attempt was therefore made to prevent them through disruptive actions. In 1956 Rudorf was beaten to hospital maturity.

On March 25, 1957, Rudorf was arrested by the State Security and sentenced on August 29, 1957 to a two-year prison sentence by the criminal senate of the Leipzig District Court for " boycotting , counter-revolutionary activity and insulting high officials of the SED and the FDJ". He served this in Waldheim and in the Röcknitz detention camp , where he had to work in the local quarry. After his imprisonment, Rudorf fled to the West and worked for the ARD and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Spiegel , Die Zeit , Die Welt , Bild and the Bunte and published in the new right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit and Pardon . In 1975 he founded one of the first information services for the media industry under the name "rundy".

Works

  • Jazz in the Zone , Kiepenheuer, Cologne 1964
  • Chess the show. About laughers and songwriters in Germany . Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1974
  • Sound off! The history of the record in Germany 1877-1998
  • Headless - the expulsion of the elites
  • Never left again , Berlin 1990
  • The fourth estate. The left media cartel. , Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1994
  • Krenzfall . The limits of justice , Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89706-893-1
  • Zs. M. Frank Farian and Dieter Kaltwasser : Stupid This Bohlen . The truth and nothing but the truth about the pop con man. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-98095-310-6

literature

watch TV

  • There is no beat to Bitterfeld, ARD-Hamburg October 26, 1967 with Brigitt Petry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He was even able to complete his jazz archive of 1,000 records and over 2,000 books with public funds, Spiegel No. 44, 1955, Danger for the violinist
  2. ↑ In particular, the person responsible for dance music at the Ministry of Culture, Prof. Georg Knepler, opposed this in a journalistic way
  3. ^ Rainer Bratfisch (ed.): Free tones: the jazz scene in the GDR. Ch.links Verlag, 2005, p. 294
  4. ↑ http://rundy.de/CMSx/sys/source/files/rundy_de/PDFs/Kategorie_Fakten_PDFs/35_Jahre_rundy.pdf
  5. ↑ http://rundy.de/CMSx/sys/source/files/rundy_de/PDFs/Kategorie_Fakten_PDFs/30_Jahre_rundy.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Rudorf, Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, dissident, media critic and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2008
Place of death Alzenau near Aschaffenburg