Wolf Heckmann

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Wolf "Hecki" Heckmann (born February 10, 1929 , † December 13, 2006 in Mittelkirchen near Stade / Hamburg ) was a German journalist .

Life

Heckmann was a writer and editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Morgenpost (MOPO) from 1969 to 1972, to which he returned in 1989 as a member of the editor-in-chief under journalist Ernst Fischer . After Fischer switched to G + J magazine stern, Heckmann became editor-in-chief again and, when he reached the age limit, handed it over to his deputy Manfred von Thien. He has also written texts for Die Zeit and the Münchner Abendzeitung . Further professional stations were the Bild and the Berliner Zeitung . He also worked occasionally as an actor or translator. In 1960 he married the author Brigitte Klump , who had fled the GDR in 1957. The marriage, which was divorced in 1988, resulted in a son and a daughter.

Heckmann's Rommel biography "Rommel's War in Africa", published in 1976, is one of the first German-language works to critically examine the military performance of the Commander-in-Chief of the German Africa Corps. The news magazine Der Spiegel wrote in its review of the book: “After three decades of blind faith in Rommel on the German and even more on the British side, Heckmann is the first author who thoroughly scratches the Rommel myth and explains why Rommel was alive and well was considerably overestimated right after his death. "

In 1973 Heckmann flew from Rotenburg (Wümme) to Perth in Australia alone in a motor glider Scheibe SF 25 . He achieved a remarkable flying performance in around 230 flight hours, which he recorded in his travel report Sharks eat no Germans .

Actor roles

  • The damaged one

Works

  • Wolf Heckmann: Rommel's War in Africa . Tosa, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85003-040-3 .
  • Wolf Heckmann: Sharks don't eat Germans. First solo flight in a motor glider to Australia . Ullstein, Frankfurt / M 1984, ISBN 3-548-34217-5 .

literature

  • Tough clay . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1972, p. 45–48 ( online - May 15, 1972 , about Heckmann's departure as editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Morgenpost).
  • Professional: Wolf Heckmann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1972, p. 148 ( online - June 12, 1972 , about Heckmann's plan for a motor glider flight to Australia).
  • Rommel: That robber captain! In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1976, p. 82-90 ( online - November 29, 1976 , review of "Rommel's War in Africa").
  • Obituary for Wolf Heckmann at the Hamburger Morgenpost
  • Died: Wolf Heckmann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 2006, p. 150 ( online - 22 December 2006 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gone in the air In: Gute Fahrt 7/77 p. 59 ( online PDF 2.3 MB; accessed: January 24, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Heckmann, Wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecki (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor-in-chief
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1929
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2006
Place of death Mittelkirchen