Rosemarie Rehahn

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Rosemarie Rehahn , b. Knop, (born January 22, 1923 in Ortelsburg , East Prussia (now Poland), † July 11, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and film critic. The long-time culture editor of the weekly post is considered the "grand dame of East German film journalism".

Life

Rehahn was born in Ortelsburg as the daughter of the East Prussian hotelier Wilhelm Knop. At the age of four she moved with her family to Pillkallen , where her father also ran a hotel. She passed her Abitur in 1941; in the same year her mother died and Rehahn was drafted into the labor service. Because she wanted to study medicine, Rehahn initially worked as an auxiliary nurse in a front hospital during the Second World War . From 1942 to 1944 she studied medicine and later German and art history in Breslau and Strasbourg as well as journalism and newspaper studies in Prague.

In 1945 she worked for the Deutsche Volkszeitung under Fritz Erpenbeck and wrote mainly theater reviews in the culture department. In 1946 she became a co-founder and deputy editor-in-chief of the Berliner Start , in which her first film review for the DEFA feature film Irgendwo in Berlin appeared in December 1946 . Start , the “Illustrated Journal of the Young Generation”, existed from 1946 to 1949; In addition to Rehahn, Wolfgang Kohlhaase was also a film critic of the paper. After the start was stopped, Rehahn worked as the arts editor at Neues Deutschland from 1949 , where her husband Arne Rehahn (1924–1975) was the second deputy editor-in-chief. In the course of the dismissal of ND editor-in-chief Rudolf Herrnstadt , Rehahn also had to leave the newspaper in 1953.

In 1954 she became the editor of the Wochenpost , for which she wrote film reviews and actor portraits, which Ralf Schenk described in retrospect as "legendary ..." and characterized as "symbioses of shop talk and home story". For the Wochenpost she also attended film festivals in Karlovy Vary, Moscow and West Berlin. Rehahn also published in other GDR film magazines and books, including Filmspiegel and the Prisma book series . She seldom worked directly on films, so she was part of the dramaturge team for the film Abschied (1968) by Egon Günther and was seen in a small role in the film The Ascent of Chimborazo (1989).

Rehahn was a "journalist known for her pointed criticism" and a "pedant (or perfectionist) who always takes a lot of time, who seems to wander, becomes flowery and yet never loses sight of her goal." Film critic Renate Holland-Moritz recalled attended the DEFA press conferences, at which the filmmakers had to answer questions from the critics, and said: “The most feared were [...] my colleagues Rosemarie Rehahn from the Wochenpost and Margit Voss from the Berliner Rundfunk . One fought with the foil, the other with the sword, while I preferred the steam ram. ”Ralf Schenk summarized Rehahn's 2010 film reviews:

“Rosemarie Rehahn wrote her reviews as if she were in dialogue with the reader. She shared her thoughts on the films with us, approached them with clever questions, never apodictically. Her texts were impressionistic, as if they were spotted, wonderful feuilletons, which, in addition to a brisk but by no means superficial writing, also betrayed a solid bourgeois education. She chatted from film to life and back again, saw herself as a reviewer and as an observer of reality. "

- Ralf Schenk, 2010

Rehahn remained the newspaper's culture editor until the weekly post was discontinued in 1995. She died in Berlin in 2010. Her estate with manuscripts from the years 1947 to 1996 is in the possession of the Potsdam Film Museum .

Awards

In 1969 Rehahn was awarded the Johannes R. Becher Journalist Prize. On March 11, 1983, Rehahn received the Heinrich Greif Prize III for her “long-standing, partisan and expert work as a film critic and film journalist” . Class. In 1987 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

Publications (selection)

  • Jutta Hoffmann . In: Horst Knietzsch (Ed.): Prisma 3 . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • Winfried Glatzeder . In: Horst Knietzsch (Ed.): Prisma 11 . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1980.
  • Jutta Wachowiak . In: Horst Knietzsch (Ed.): Prisma 12 . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • Kurt Böwe . In: Horst Knietzsch (Ed.): Prisma 14 . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Erwin Geschonneck . In: Ralf Schenk (Ed.): In front of the camera . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995.

literature

  • The difficulty of finding the first sentence. Ralf Schenk in conversation with Rosemarie Rehahn . In: Ingeborg Pietzsch and Ralf Schenk (eds.): "Beat him dead, the dog ..." Film and theater critics remember . Parthas, Berlin 2004, pp. 117-140.
  • DEFA stars and stripes . In: Klaus Polkehn: That was the weekly mail . Links, Berlin 1997, pp. 292-299.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ralf Schenk : The kiss of Juri Gagarin. On the death of the great film journalist Rosemarie Rehahn . Berliner Zeitung , August 16, 2010, p. 26.
  2. ↑ On the difficulty of finding the first sentence. Ralf Schenk in conversation with Rosemarie Rehahn . In: Ingeborg Pietzsch and Ralf Schenk (eds.): "Beat him dead, the dog ..." Film and theater critics remember . Parthas, Berlin 2004, p. 118.
  3. ↑ On the difficulty of finding the first sentence. Ralf Schenk in conversation with Rosemarie Rehahn . In: Ingeborg Pietzsch and Ralf Schenk (eds.): "Beat him dead, the dog ..." Film and theater critics remember . Parthas, Berlin 2004, pp. 117, 122.
  4. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs: The case of Rudolf Herrnstadt: Thaw policy before June 17th . LinksDruck, Berlin 1991, p. 318.
  5. ↑ Gunilla-Friederike Budde: Women of the Intelligence: Academics in the GDR 1945 to 1975 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, p. 393.
  6. ↑ Norbert Wehrstedt: Film and theater critics of the GDR remember in book . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , May 7, 2004, p. 16.
  7. ↑ Andreas Kurtz: The Kinoeule . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 16, 2006, pp. M04 – M05.
  8. ↑ See filmmuseum-potsdam.de ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de
  9. ↑ Johannes-R.Becker-Journalistenpreis awarded . In: NDP , Vol. 23, No. 7, 1969, p. 4.
  10. ↑ See defa.de
  11. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 2./3. May 1987, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Rehahn, Rosemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knop, Rosemarie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and film critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortelsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2010
Place of death Berlin