Roman Brodmann

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Roman Brodmann (born June 18, 1920 in Binningen ; † February 1, 1990 in Basel ) was a Swiss journalist and documentary filmmaker .

Career

Roman Brodmann began his journalistic career in 1943 with the Basler Volksblatt and the daily newspaper Die Tat . From 1949 he wrote as a freelancer for various Swiss newspapers and was a cabaret author. In 1950 he got a job as a film critic for Swiss television and became editor-in-chief of Elle magazine . From 1961 to 1963 he was editor-in-chief of the Zürcher Woche .

Roman Brodmann simultaneously produced and hosted programs for Swiss television, including the popular Friday magazine , for which he received the Prix ​​Italia in 1961 . After differences of opinion with Swiss television because of his socially critical attitude, he left Switzerland in 1963 and switched to ZDF as a freelance editor . In 1965 he went to the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart . There he worked for ARD telecast signs of the times . Brodmann also worked as a freelance journalist and author (Switzerland without weapons , Moscow simply) , as a director of critical documentary films ( The Dream of Slaughtering the Sacred Cow ) and as a teacher at the University of Television and Film Munich .

For his film Die Misswahl , Brodmann received the Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze in 1967 . For his documentary The Police State Visit - Observations among German hosts about the state visit of the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in West Berlin, during which the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot on the sidelines of a demonstration , Brodmann was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize with silver in 1968 excellent. In 1976 he received the special award from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the Adolf Grimme Award for The Green People on Intensive 1 . Brodmann received another Adolf Grimme Silver Award in 1988 for The Dream of Slaughtering the Most Holy Cow .

In 1983 he received the Basel Culture Prize .

Works

Books

  • Aphrodite's diary: a summer story for lovers and sailors. Turicum-Verlag, Zollikon 1957
  • Delirium feriarum: Analysis of a contemporary hysteria with special consideration of its most popular symptoms, with some medical advice for prophylaxis and therapy. JR Geigy, Basel 1960.
  • Schorsch Brunau: My little message in a bottle. Drawings by Viktor Speich. Sanssouci, Zurich 1963.
  • Switzerland without weapons: 24 hours in the year X ... Benteli, Bern 1973.
  • The non-Swiss, what do the confederates do with a dissident? From the Ziegler case to the Switzerland case. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1977.
  • «Moscow simply»: written 1968–1984. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1984.
  • ed. with Andreas Gross , Marc Spescha: On the way to a Switzerland without an army: The free walk out of the fortress. Z-Verlag, Basel 1986.

Films (selection)

literature

  • Frauke Böhm: Time-critical documentary film in the field of tension between TV journalism and auteur film: Roman Brodmann. Diss. Phil. Marburg / Lahn 2000 (with extensive filmography). PDF online
  • Therese Steffen Gerber: Brodmann, Roman. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2005
  • Roman Seifert: Roman Brodmann in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Prize of the City of Pisa for television documentaries for La vie est une fête by Felice A. Vitali, produced by Roman Brodmann.
  2. This film in the Südfunk series “ Zeichen der Zeit” was made during the Shah's visit to West Berlin in 1967, during which the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by the police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras .
  3. This film was made in 1977 for Südwestfunk SWR. It illuminates the background of the largest Swiss press merger , the merger of Basler Nachrichten and the National-Zeitung to form Basler_Zeitung .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Therese Steffen Gerber: Brodmann, Roman. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2005
  2. ^ Prix ​​Italia, Past Edition, Winners 1949–2003 ( Memento from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Prix ​​Italia RAI (PDF; 198 kB; English)
  3. Signs of the Times. Stefan Niggemeier in fernsehlexikon.de accessed on January 16, 2011
  4. ^ Chronicle of the Basler Stadtbuch. Entry from June 19, 1983 online at basler-stadtbuch.ch, accessed on August 3, 2020.
  5. ↑ Settled with the carnival. Jürg-Peter Lienhard in webjournal.ch on February 29, 2004, accessed on January 16, 2011
  6. Challenged. The history of the Basler Zeitung. Entry in the research blog of February 17, 2012, online at bazbuch.ch, accessed on February 17, 2012