Walter Haubrich

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Walter Haubrich (2012)

Walter Haubrich (born August 25, 1935 in Sessenhausen ; † April 6, 2015 in Madrid ) was a German journalist .

Life

Walter Haubrich studied Romance Philology and German Literature at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Dijon (France), Madrid and Salamanca (Spain) from 1955 to 1961 . He passed the state examination in German, French and Spanish at the University of Mainz . As a lecturer supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) , he then taught German language and literature at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Valladolid .

In 1968 he joined the political editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1969 until his official retirement in 2002 he was a correspondent for the Madrid-based newspaper. He reported mainly from Spain and Portugal and occasionally from Latin America and the Maghreb .

By helping the illegally operating opposition to the Franco dictatorship to gain valuable international media attention despite official opposition, Haubrich, together with a few other foreign journalists, played a prominent role in the transition to democracy in Spain . A few days before he began his journalistic activities in Spain, the government there declared a state of emergency - shortly after his arrival, Haubrich received the first threat of deportation from the secret police, which was followed by many further attempts at intimidation. He enjoyed the trust of both politicians working against the dictatorship and Spanish journalists, who often provided him with information that they themselves could not publish due to the current censorship rules.

He made regular trips and extended stays for reporting from South, Central America and Mexico. He wrote around 7,500 articles and became one of the most important foreign correspondents in Madrid. From 1973 to 1980 he was chairman of the International Press Club in Spain and from 1974 to 1975 chairman of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents Accredited in Spain (Asociación de Corresponsales de Prensa Extranjera, ACPE). From 2002 Haubrich also wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and the Mallorca Zeitung and took part in discussions on Spanish radio and television. Former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González and former President of the European Parliament Enrique Barón took part in an honor for his 75th birthday at the Goethe-Institut in Madrid, which was attended by “hundreds of friends and companions” .

Haubrich worked in several films as an actor, including in the 1985 Spanish film Los paraísos perdidos by the director Basilio Martín Patino .

Haubrich's son Miguel Haubrich Seco is a political scientist and employee of the Leibniz Association in Berlin.

Awards

Publications

  • Franco's heirs. Spain's way to the present. (together with Carsten R. Moser), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1976,
  • Andalusia. Bucher, Munich 1983
  • Madrid-Toledo. Bucher, Munich 1987
  • Juan Carlos I of Spain. Speech of February 23, 1981. European Publishing House, Hamburg 1992
  • Cities of Latin America. (together with Eva Karnofsky ), Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994
  • Spain's difficult path to freedom. Five volumes, Frey, Berlin 1995–2006
  • Spain. In the series The Germans and their Neighbors , edited by Helmut Schmidt and Richard von Weizsäcker , Beck, Munich 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Haubrich, 50 años en España y Latinoamérica, website of the Club Internacional de Prensa of September 22, 2010, accessed on April 8, 2015 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Juan-Fernando Dorrego Tíktin: Walter Haubrich, el testigo más fell del salto de España del precipicio a la libertad, in: Hechos de Hoy of April 7, 2015 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ a b Miguel Ángel Aguilar: Walter Haubrich, testigo comprometido con la libertad, in: El País from April 7, 2015 (Spanish)
  4. ^ Walter Haubrich, periodista: “Con el tiempo se pierde el miedo” (Entrevista en Radio 5). Interview on Radio 5 on November 9, 2010, accessed on April 7, 2015 (Spanish; 12 MB)
  5. ^ Charo Nogueira: La memoria de la Transición. In: El País of September 4, 2010, accessed April 8, 2015 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ a b Carsten Moser: Fallció Walter Haubrich, un periodista alemán clave en momentos históricos, in: Mundiario from April 6, 2015 (Spanish)
  7. ^ Fallce el periodista alemán Walter Haubrich. Website of the Club Internacional de Prensa from April 7th 2015 (Spanish)
  8. ^ Obituario por Walter Haubrich. ACPE website from April 7, 2015 (Spanish)
  9. ^ A b Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger: Full of empathy and passion: Obituary for Walter Haubrich ( FAZ , April 6, 2015)
  10. ↑ Paul Ingendaay: 7500 articles, in the blog Sanchos Esel of the FAZ of September 9, 2010, accessed on April 7, 2015
  11. ↑ Ángel Fernández-Santos: Gran película con dos pequeñeces. In: El País, October 25, 1985, accessed April 7, 2015 (Spanish)
  12. ↑ Temporary diplomacy for science managers: the Federal Foreign Office and the Leibniz Association continue the internship program, website of the Leibniz Association of March 19, 2015, accessed on April 7, 2015
  13. ↑ Galardonados con los Premios Internacionales del CIP 2007, website of the International Press Club in Spain (CIP), accessed on April 7, 2015 (Spanish)
  14. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Haubrich, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Sessenhausen , Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2015
Place of death Madrid , Spain