Thilo Koch

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Thilo Koch (born September 20, 1920 in Kanena , today a district of Halle (Saale) ; † September 12, 2006 in Hausen ob Verena , Baden-Württemberg ) was a German radio and television journalist.

Life

Born in Kanena near Halle, the cook grew up in Plessa , where he lived from 1928 to 1945 and initially attended school. In 1939 Thilo Koch passed his Abitur as the best of the year at the Elsterwerda Oberschule . He then studied philosophy, history and German.

Koch successfully applied to the NWDR in 1946 . However, he first came out with poetry and poetic prose; In 1947 he published the volume of poems Stille und Klang as well as the novel Eine Jugend was the victim .

In 1948 he wrote in the cultural magazine Dionysos basic information about working on the radio:

"We cannot reach the listener who only uses the radio as an automatic eardrum massage with word broadcasts."

Since 1949 he dealt with Gottfried Benn . For example, he led the discussion between Benn and Peter de Mendelssohn on the subject of writers and emigration (NWDR, March 22, 1950). He was in personal and correspondence with Benn.

Koch later worked at NDR as an editor and speaker.

Koch switched from radio to television. He led z. B. the interview with Gottfried Benn on May 3, 1956, one day after the poet's 70th birthday. Koch co-founded the Weltspiegel program and, in the early 1960s, correspondent for ARD in Washington, DC "Good evening over there in Germany" was always the farewell formula at the end of every one and a half minute contribution to the Tagesschau .

Thilo Koch also wrote for Die Zeit , among other things as a Berlin and later Washington correspondent. He also made more than 150 documentaries, for example commenting on Konrad Adenauer's first trip to Moscow .

Koch's commentary on the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963 was the first live broadcast via satellite on German television. His 'Diary from Washington' (Christian Wegner Verlag, licensed edition Fischer Verlag) was published in 1964/65 about the Kennedy era, which he had fully accompanied as a journalist. He also became known through his appearances as "pilot" in the TV show Ich carry a big name and through Die Rote Optik , which analyzed the propaganda of the GDR based on TV clips. Thilo Koch wrote portraits of important personalities such as Norman Mailer and Bertrand Russell , resembling living people , for example, is intended: encounters .

Koch worked for the NDR until 1982. In addition to his work as a journalist, he has also worked as a non-fiction author and editor throughout his life.

Trivia

In 1994 his name found its way into a song by Marius Müller-Westernhagen .

Works (selection)

  • 1947: A youth was the victim , Pontes-Verlag, Berlin.
  • 1957: Gottfried Benn. A biographical essay , new editions 1970 (dtv) and Frankfurt am Main 1986 (Fischer TB).
  • 1961: Portraits of German-Jewish intellectual history (= DuMont documents ; series 3). Cologne: DuMont Schauberg.
  • 1969: Fighters for a New World , GP Putnam's sons, New York.
  • 1972: Germany was divisible. The 1950s , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-421-01546-5 .
items
  • Sinai: Where the law fell from heaven. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980, 10, pp. 10-38. Experience report: Through the inaccessible regions of Sinai - safe from Egyptian persecutors - 3200 years ago Moses traveled with the children of Israel. Thilo Koch tries to integrate the historical dimension of this 40-year journey into the political present of a crisis region. ISSN  0342-8311

Awards

Thilo Koch library in the gardener's house in Elsterwerda

The school library of the Elsterschloss-Gymnasium in Elsterwerda has also been named after him since 1999. Koch (graduation class 1939) had donated books worth around DM 35,000 to the school at the time.

References and comments

  1. ^ "Journalist Thilo Koch attended the Elsterschloss-Schule." In: Lausitzer Rundschau , March 19, 2008
  2. ↑ “And time, which looks at the world by measuring, must end.” In: Lausitzer Rundschau , September 20, 2006
  3. ↑ Thilo Koch: Afterword 1970 , in: Thilo Koch: Gottfried Benn , Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 77–103, here p. 98.
  4. ↑ In this essay, Koch advocates a demanding word program. This can only succeed "if enough witty, eloquent people work on the radio". It is quite possible to “publish heavy material on the radio” if there is a reasonable “radio presentation dramaturgy” behind it. It must end with the fact that “an intellectually mediocre manuscript, excellently spoken, makes more impression” than an awkwardly presented demanding script. To be read in Dionysus, 4 of February 13, 1948.
  5. ↑ Thilo Koch: Afterword 1970 , in: Thilo Koch: Gottfried Benn , Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 77-103, here p. 78ff.
  6. ↑ Thilo Koch: Foreword , in: Thilo Koch: Gottfried Benn , Frankfurt am Main 1986, p. 8.
  7. ↑ Thilo Koch: Afterword 1970 , in: Thilo Koch: Gottfried Benn , Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 77–103, here p. 81.
  8. ↑ Thilo Koch: Foreword , in: Thilo Koch: Gottfried Benn , Frankfurt am Main 1986, p. 8.
  9. ↑ "Thilo Koch" - Obituary in Time .
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.westernhagen.de
  11. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Koch, Thilo, p. 236 .
  12. ↑ Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg. List of medal recipients 1975–2016. (PDF; 151 KB) 1991. In: baden-wuerttemberg.de. P. 34 , accessed on July 22, 2018 .
  13. ^ History. In: www.elsterschloss.de. Förderverein Elsterschloss-Gymnasium eV, accessed on August 9, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cook, Thilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kanena, today a district of Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2006
Place of death Hausen ob Verena