Torben Lodberg

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Torben Lodberg (born September 4, 1929 in Copenhagen - † May 20, 2014 ) was a Danish journalist , editor and author .

Life

The foster son of the genealogist Thorvald Lodberg (1891–1959) and his wife Ingrid Karla Prahl Lauersen (1896–1975) were trained from 1945 to 1949 as iron and office clerks. He worked as an assistant for the next ten years. In 1961 he became secretary at Danmarks Socialdemokratiske Ungdom . In 1964 he was employed as a journalist at Socialdemokratiets Nyhedstjeneste and also as a program employee at Danmarks Radio in the children's, youth and school department. After a year he became sub-head and information head of Danish Refugee Aid. In 1966 he was again a program employee at DR.

On September 27, 1969, he married Inger Aase Skøtt (* 1944). From 1969 to 1972 he was information and information clerk in the school director's office in Nuuk , so he came into contact with Greenland for the first time. In 1970 he became an administrative member of Greenland's Press Association for two years. From 1972 he was a freelancer at Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa and at the same time was employed as a newspaper editor for Atuagagdliutit in Copenhagen, which he remained until 1977, as well as a member of the Folketing press box . In 1973 he also became editorial secretary at Socialistisk Dagblad , where he stayed until 1982. From 1974 to 1982 he was cashier in the press box of the Citizens' Representation in Copenhagen. In 1976 he was an auditor at the Danish Association of Journalists for ten years . In 1978 he co-wrote the book Inngili qernertoq ( German  The Black Angel ), which deals with the strike at the mine of the same name in Maamorilik . From 1981 to 1987 he was a second time Copenhagen editor of the Atuagagdliutit. In 1984 he became vice-chairman of the Greenland Journalists and in 1987 first chairman. From 1987 he was still in the information department of the Greenland government in Danmark office in Copenhagen and in the self-founded Greenland's press office Tusagassiorfik busy.

In 1988 he published the biography lexicon Grønlands Grønne Bog for the first time together with the government . The lexicon, based on Kraks Blå Bog from Denmark, which should be updated at regular intervals, described the résumés of important Greenlanders who were still alive and contained 294 biographies in the first edition. Torben Lodberg retired in 2000 and the lexicon was last published in 2001. On August 3, 2004, he received the Nersornaat in silver for his commitment to Greenland. He died in 2014 at the age of 84.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torben Lodberg: Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 47 f .
  2. ↑ January René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 43 .
  3. ↑ En grønlandsk ildsjæl er død in Sermitsiaq
  4. ↑ Nekrolog at kristeligt-dagblad.dk
personal data
SURNAME Lodberg, Torben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish journalist, editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2014