Uwe Jacobi

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Uwe Jacobi (born July 9, 1939 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ; † May 30, 2020 in Heilbronn ) was a German journalist and author who has published a large number of popular science books and articles on the history of the city of Heilbronn .

Life

Jacobi was at the Hohenloher Tagblatt in Gerabronn in 1957 , at the Geislinger Zeitung in 1959, at the Böblinger Boten in 1960 and joined Heilbronner Voice in 1961 , where he initially worked in the local editorial team and from 1970 as the deputy head of department. In 1975 he received the Theodor Wolff Prize, the journalist prize of the German newspapers. From 1981 Jacobi was the local manager of the Heilbronn city ​​and district of Heilbronn , from 1985 its chief reporter, and in 1989 he was deputy editor-in-chief. From 1994 to 1999 he was a journalism lecturer at the University of Hohenheim . In 2004 he retired after 43 years with Heilbronner Voice .

Jacobi was also committed to the Heilbronn theater life, was chairman of the Heilbronn Theater Association and in this function initiated the Kilian Prize for outstanding artistic achievements by the ensemble of the city theater and a stage in Heilbronner Land as well as the annual theater market in Heilbronner Weindorf , in which present the ensembles of the Heilbronn region. He wrote the lyrics for two musicals , Heilbronn Leben and JS Bach ; He also wrote texts and played with the Heilbronn cabaret Die Hegelmaiers .

In 2005 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services . Uwe Jacobi died at the end of May 2020 at the age of 80.

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Some of the books he has published are anthologies of his article series on recent city history, especially the Nazi and post-war era, which had previously been published in Heilbronner Voice , and which included many submissions of contemporary witness reports and articles from homeland books. With the series The Missing Council Protocols , which appeared from July 9 to August 29, 1981 in the Heilbronner Voice , Jacobi devoted himself to the hitherto little treated history of Heilbronn at the time of National Socialism . For this series Jacobi received the Guardian Prize of the German daily press in 1981 . The book edition published in the same year with the subtitle Record of the Search for the Unresolved Past was published in 1992 and 1995 in 2nd and 3rd editions. For the 34-part series The Most Beautiful Years? from 1983, which deals with Heilbronn in the period immediately after the Second World War , Jacobi received a special award from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . His book The End of the War - Scenes 1944/45 in Heilbronn, Unterland and Hohenlohe is based on a 57-part series of articles published in Heilbronner Voice from March 1 to May 9, 1985. It was reprinted several times, in 2005 the 6th edition appeared. On the 50th anniversary of the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944, Jacobi presented the book Heilbronn - December 4, 1944. Record of a catastrophe , which takes up earlier research and publications on the air raid, as well as diaries, notes, letters and interviews of almost 200 Evaluates contemporary witnesses. In his last years he worked on the history of Lidl and Kaufland for Dieter Schwarz and headed the company archive; his last book deals with the history of the Heilbronn gardener family Kölle .

Publications (selection)

  • The missing council minutes. Record of the search for the unresolved past , Verlag Heilbronner Voice 1981, ISBN 3-921923-09-3
  • Heilbronn - The most beautiful years? Post-war period in a German city , Verlag Heilbronner Voice 1984, ISBN 3-921923-01-8
  • The end of the war. Scenes 1944/45 in Heilbronn, in the Unterland and in Hohenlohe , Verlag Heilbronner Voice 1985, ISBN 3-921923-03-4
  • Heilbronn as it was , Droste Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-7700-0746-8
  • 150 years of Knorr 1838–1988 , Maizena GmbH 1988
  • 100 years of Salzer. History of a publishing house , Salzer 1991, ISBN 3-7936-0301-6
  • Heilbronn - Pictures of a City , Verlag Heilbronner Voice 1992, ISBN 3-921923-10-7 (with Hermann Eisenmenger)
  • 250 years Heilbronner Presse , Verlag Heilbronner Voice 1993, ISBN 3-921923-11-5
  • Heilbronn - December 4, 1944. Protocol of a catastrophe , Verlag Heilbronner Voice 1994, ISBN 3-921923-12-3
  • That was the 20th century in Heilbronn , Wartberg-Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-86134-703-2
  • Heilbronn - A lost cityscape , Wartberg-Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-86134-957-4
  • Heilbronn - Stadt am Neckar , Medien-Verlag Schubert 2001, ISBN 3-929229-64-1 (with Roland Schweizer)
  • The 1950s in Heilbronn and the region , 3 volumes, Wartberg-Verlag 2002–2004, ISBN 3-8313-1034-3 , ISBN 3-8313-1035-1 , ISBN 3-8313-1252-4
  • At eight the rooster crows. Stories from old Heilbronn , Wartberg-Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-8313-1371-7
  • Heilbronn - Days that moved the city , Wartberg-Verlag 2007, ISBN 3-8313-1674-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kilian Krauth: The Heilbronn journalist Uwe Jacobi is dead. In: Stimme.de. June 6, 2020, accessed June 6, 2020 .
  2. ^ Journalist and author Uwe Jacobi has died. Striking personality of the city. In: heilbronn.de. June 8, 2020, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Killian Prize. Theater Association Heilbronn, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Theater market in the region. Theater Association Heilbronn, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Theater Association. In: theater-heilbronn.de. Retrieved on June 7, 2020 (at Kilian price and theater market).
  6. ↑ Detlef Hintze: The boy scout in Heilbronn was honored. In: Stimme.de . November 17th, 2005, accessed on June 7th, 2020 (The expression of the Federal Cross of Merit is not in the text, but can be found in the accompanying picture).

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personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2020
Place of death Heilbronn