Rudolf Crisolli (journalist)

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Memorial to the victims of the attack near Würenlingen

Rudolf-Walter Crisolli (born April 10, 1932 in Berlin ; † February 21, 1970 near Würenlingen , Switzerland ) was a German television journalist.

Life

Rudolf Crisolli was born as the son of the lawyer Karl-August Crisolli and his wife Ellen. His father died three years after Rudolf was born.

His career began with Bayerischer Rundfunk . He initially then worked in the archives, as assistant to the recording head in the Bavarian television . He quickly rose to the position of production manager, and on August 12, 1960, his first report was broadcast in the Abendschau . In two years he produced more than 200 articles. After founding ZDF , he moved to the Bavarian state studio of the new television station.

From 1967 onwards, Crisolli traveled around the world and repeatedly reported from crisis regions such as Vietnam , Biafra and the Middle East . On 13 June 1968 he survived the crash of a Boeing 707-321C of Pan Am near the airport Dum Dum Kolkata . Since then he has been plagued by fear of flying . In the position of chief reporter for ZDF, he was killed in a plane crash on February 21, 1970 as a passenger on Swissair flight 330 in a bomb attack. He was on his way from Asia to Israel to represent a ZDF colleague there. Crisolli had booked a supposedly safe Swissair flight in order to avoid a flight with the Israeli airline El Al , whose planes were repeatedly targets of Arab - Palestinian terrorists .

Rudolf Crisolli was the uncle of the HR television journalist Georg M. Hafner . He was also the author of the documentary film Munich 1970. When the terror came to us , in which the relatives of Crisolli have their say and who discusses the historical context.

On the premises of the ZDF broadcasting center in Mainz , a street name commemorates the murdered journalist.

literature

  • Wolfgang Kraushaar : “When will the fight against the holy cow Israel finally begin?” Munich 1970: on the anti-Semitic roots of German terrorism , Rowohlt. Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-03411-5 , p. 776.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data on the plane crash
  2. ↑ Business trip to death , NZZ.ch; accessed on February 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Website with information on the ARD documentation
  4. ↑ Jochen Hieber : Left anti-Semitism and wasted time . faz.net , July 16, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Crisolli, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crisolli, Rudolf-Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1970
Place of death Würenlingen near Zurich