Roland Hill

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Roland Hill (* December 2, 1920 in Hamburg as Roland Hess ; † June 21, 2014 in London ) was a German-British journalist and author .

Life

Roland Hess' father, Rudolf Hess, was a Hamburg merchant, his mother was an opera singer. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , the family fled to Prague. Hill began an apprenticeship in a newspaper in Vienna in 1937 . After the annexation of Austria he fled to England. When the Second World War broke out , he was interned as an enemy alien , he enlisted in the British Army and changed his name to Roland Hill.

After the war, he began in 1952 as a journalist for the Catholic weekly newspaper The Tablet , which was edited by Douglas Woodruff, who in turn, with his wife, looked after the estate of Lord Acton, of which she was heir. Hill worked as a correspondent for major German-language newspapers, such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Presse . He wrote several books about Great Britain for the German book market. After the end of his professional activity, Hill wrote a comprehensive biography of the politician Lord Acton , which he then translated into German himself.

Hill died in St George's Hospital in London.

Fonts (selection)

  • A time out of joint. A journey from Nazi Germany to post-war Britain . London: IB Tauris & Co, 2007
    • A time out of joint. Memories of a German-English European . Freiburg, Br .: Herder, 2009
  • Lord Acton . Yale University Press, 2000
    • Lord Acton. A pioneer for religious and political freedom in the 19th century . Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2002
  • London. Forays through the English metropolis . Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe, 1994
  • England's south . Munich: Dt. Paperback publishing, 1988
  • Margaret Thatcher. Rise of an English politician . Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder-Taschenbuch-Verl., 1988
  • Typically Irish. A fun tour guide . Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher Howse: In and Out of Hitler's Reich , The Daily Telegraph , October 20, 2007
  2. ↑ Roland Hill and Lord Acton , at The Toynbee convector , July 24, 2014
  3. ↑ Roland Hill , death notice in the Telegraph
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Roland (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2014
Place of death London