Robert Lembke

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As a member of the supervisory board of the German Olympic Center for Radio Television at the Kieler Woche 1969

Robert Emil Lembke (also Robert Erich Lembke ; born September 17, 1913 in Munich ; † January 14, 1989 ibid) was a German journalist and television presenter .

Life

Grave of Robert Lembke (2009)

Robert Lembke was born in 1913 as the son of a menswear retailer. His parents divorced in 1918. Because of his Jewish origins, his father emigrated to Great Britain in 1936.

Lembke began 18 years ago, a law school , but he broke off, and worked as a newspaper journalist (including the Berliner Tageblatt and the Simplicissimus ). When he refused to sign a "declaration of loyalty", he was no longer allowed to work as a journalist during the Nazi era and found a job at IG Farben , for which he sold advertisements and fluorescent paints. In 1935 Lembke married Mathilde Bertholt and three years later they had a daughter. In 1944 he hid in the Bavarian village of Fürholzen to escape Nazi persecution.

After the Second World War , Lembke set up Die Neue Zeitung in Munich together with Hans Habe , Erich Kästner and Stefan Heym , Lembke took over the management of the domestic affairs department.

From 1949 he worked at Bayerischer Rundfunk in various functions, including head of radio, deputy editor-in-chief and head of the news department . At the soccer world championship in 1954 he was assistant to Herbert Zimmermann at the legendary miracle of Bern . In 1956 he became editor-in-chief and deputy television director. From 1969 he was managing director of the German Olympic Center and in 1972 he was responsible for the radio and television broadcasts of the Summer Olympic Games in Munich . Eventually he became editor-in-chief of Bayerischer Rundfunk and deputy program director of ARD . He was also responsible for broadcasting the 1974 World Cup as a director .

From 1955 to 1958 and from 1961 to 1989 Lembke moderated 337 episodes of the program Was bin ich? on the First German Television , in which four celebrities (for many years in particular: Hans Sachs , Marianne Koch , alternating with Anneliese Fleyenschmidt , Annette von Aretin and Guido Baumann from Switzerland) had to guess a candidate's job by asking yes / no questions. Equally successful was his mission rate 17 + 4 - A serene impromptu game that the radio program of the North German Radio was broadcast live from Studio Hamburg in 320 episodes from 20 January 1957 to 4 March 1984th Here, too, Lembke's team consisted of four celebrities, including Annette von Aretin, and Irene Zander , Hannelore Krollpfeiffer , Herbert Zimmermann, Werner Steinhoff and Hermann Rockmann, alternating . In this series of programs, the guessing team, each reinforced by a guest of honor, had to guess terms sent in by listeners with 17 and 4, i.e. 21 yes / no questions. At the end of each broadcast there was a game of talers in which first the guest of honor and then volunteers from the audience had to answer questions from the advice team for two minutes without using the words “yes”, “no”, “black” and “white”. In the 1970s, the Upper Austria regional studio of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation produced its own episodes of this radio series. Robert Lembke was the moderator here, but only Annette von Aretin was taken on from the NDR's advice team, the other members came from Austria.

Robert Lembke coined and published numerous bon mots and aphorisms .

He died in 1989 after heart surgery and was buried in the Westfriedhof in Munich.

After years of research, filmmakers Eric Friedler and Niki Stein have been drawing for the NDR / SWR docudrama Lembke - Who am I? his life after, previously unknown archive material should give new insights into the life of the TV legend.

Awards

Web links

Wikiquote: Robert Lembke  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note in: WAZ of September 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Alexandra Vettori: Second World War - Moderator Robert Lembke: Hidden in Fürholzen. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 17, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Robert Lembke
  4. ↑ NDR and SWR film the life of TV legend Robert Lembke, press release from August 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lembke, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lembke, Robert Emil (full name); Lembke, Robert Erich; Weichselbaum, Robert Emil (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1989
Place of death Munich