Werner Friedmann

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Werner Friedmann (born May 12, 1909 in Munich ; † April 23, 1969 in Munich ) was a German journalist and founder of the German School of Journalism .

Life

The son of a Jewish pediatrician spent his youth in Berlin . After the death of her father, the mother, who was born in Bavaria, moved back to her home country with her children. In 1927 he obtained his Abitur at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . Friedmann worked as a reporter for the Süddeutsche Sonntagspost during his studies at the University of Munich , whose editor-in-chief Walter Tschuppik promoted him. Immediately after the Nazis took power in 1933, he was arrested and imprisoned until the end of the year. Then he made his way as a translator in Berlin. In 1940 Friedmann became a Wehrmacht drafted and was taken prisoner by the English in 1945.

Friedmann worked again as a journalist from 1945, initially as head of the Bavarian section for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In 1946 he also became one of the four licensees and partners of this paper. In 1948 he headed the show editorial team, which, on behalf of OMGUS , was supposed to bring the importance of the press for democracy closer to Germans during the international press exhibition in the Haus der Kunst . Initially planned for only 41 days during the exhibition, the publication was extended by three months and then at Friedmann's insistence an additional permanent license was granted: The evening newspaper was created.

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From 1951 to 1960 Friedmann was editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He founded the Werner Friedmann Institute, in whose editorial offices journalists were trained on the American model. The lecturers included Immanuel Birnbaum , Hermann Proebst , Martin E. Süskind and Wolf Schneider . In his autobiography, Wolf Schneider judges Friedmann: "Only Henri Nannen was an even more impressive journalist than him."

On May 10, 1960 Friedmann was arrested on suspicion of fornication with addicts and, due to a private, widely publicized affair, was charged with inciting pimping , which was still a criminal offense , and sentenced to six months probation. As a result, Friedmann resigned from his post in the SZ and devoted himself primarily to the evening newspaper, which achieved its greatest successes in circulation in the 1960s under his leadership. The Werner Friedmann Institute was in German journalism school renamed

Friedmann, who was seriously ill with diabetes , died in 1969. The Abendzeitung was then continued as a family business by Friedmann's second wife, Anneliese . In 1975, the Abendzeitung publishing house, under the direction of Anneliese Friedmann, in cooperation with the City of Munich, set up the Werner Friedmann Foundation, which has no legal capacity, to support old, needy artists and journalists in Munich. The foundation is the owner of a property on Viktualienmarkt in which 14 apartments are being given at heavily reduced rents. The foundation is also allowed to occupy other subsidized apartments in the old town.

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  1. ↑ Knud von Harbou : When Germany wanted to save its soul. The Süddeutsche Zeitung in the founding years after 1945 . Munich: dtv, 2015, p. 142ff.
  2. ^ Rolf Meyer: Ten Years of the Werner Friedmann Institute. Training young journalists. Editor: Werner Friedmann Institute, Munich 1959
  3. ↑ Wolf Schneider: Hottentottenstottertrottel. My long, whimsical life. Reinbek near Hamburg 2015. p. 63.
  4. ^ Muenchen.de: Werner Friedmann Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1969
Place of death Munich