Rolf Krickow

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Rolf Krickow (born April 29, 1921 in Leipzig - Paunsdorf , † March 14, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German radio presenter and editor .

Life

Krickow, whose father ran a small print shop, completed a commercial apprenticeship in the paper house FA Wölbing after finishing the König-Albert-Gymnasium opposite the congress hall at the Leipzig Zoo. He also took singing lessons from the age of 16 and played the piano at the age of eight.

With internment and Soviet captivity, Krickow served as a Wehrmacht soldier for ten years in World War II. After his late return in 1949, he worked for the GDR radio station from 1951 until December 31, 1991 . Together with Horst Lehn, Rolf Krickow designed large entertainment programs such as Per Wire asked and became the spiritual father of the legendary radio and later television program Da laughs the bear .

Krickow founded the series of Berolina concerts in 1963 and moderated it more than 160 times, often as a double event, to meet the demand. There, among others, the counter-tenor Jochen Kowalski made his debut. Krickow's theater broadcasts were also popular, including stage fright and So ein Theater (on Sundays 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Berlin radio), in which all the stages in the GDR and their ensembles were presented. Here, too, he recognized and promoted singing talents, for whom under other names such as the Dresden bassist René Pape or the soprano Dagmar Schellenberger stand.

With the 90-minute live conversation he developed in the evening in the Möwe , he established the first talk format of the GDR radio and introduced over 400 personalities, including: Ursula Karusseit , Siegfried Matthus , Reiner Süß , Manfred Krug , Angelica Domröse , Wolf Kaiser , Alexander Lang , Celestina Casapietra , Armin Mueller-Stahl , Hans Pischner , Gerhard Wolfram , Markus Wolf , Albert Hetterle , Franz Loeser , Kurt Sanderling , Ulrich Thein , Karl Hermann Roehricht , Manfred Wekwerth or Helga Hahnemann .

As the successor to Marianne Wünscher , Rolf Krickow was president of the East Berlin artists' club Die Möwe for many years .

In 1981 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDR quiz master Rolf Krickow dead , Berliner Morgenpost from March 30, 2003
  2. ↑ Rolf Krickow: stayed there . Autobiography, 318 pages, Frankfurt / Oder, Edition 1991, ISBN 3930842254
  3. ↑ Moderator Rolf Krickow is dead , Berliner Kurier from March 30, 2003
  4. ↑ Matthias Thalheim: Mythos Möwe - The legendary artist club turns 60. A memory , Berliner Zeitung from June 10, 2006, magazine
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 1981, p. 4


personal data
SURNAME Krickow, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio presenter and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig - Paunsdorf
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2003
Place of death Berlin