Wolf Littmann

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Wolf Littmann (born August 18, 1926 in Erfurt , Thuringia, † March 13, 2000 in Munich ) was a German journalist and publicist.

Life

Wolf Littmann grew up as the son of a dentist in Bernburg , where he also earned his Abitur. He then studied theater studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. During his studies he was also active as a journalist and worked as a holiday representative for the youth radio of the state broadcaster Halle.

Wolf Littmann then began on December 1, 1948 as a permanent reporter on an island in the middle of the Saale, in an editorial barrack of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , state broadcaster Halle. After half a year he was the head of Zeitfunks, whose evening 30-minute program reported on the country and people between Magdeburg and Weimar, Quedlinburg and Cottbus. On the night of April 1, 1950, increasing difficulties with the SED superiors forced Wolf Littmann to flee to West Berlin.

While he was working there for the NWDR studio , the husband of his former secretary from Halle brought him "poison cabinet tapes". H. Recordings that were not allowed to be broadcast via the SED- controlled Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , into "exile". With these tapes Littmann designed his first major broadcasts in Berlin, e. B. "Uprising in Magdeburg", a documentation with original recordings of a physical confrontation between workers of the Gruson factories and the people's police . American agencies advised Wolf Littman after a few months to leave the front city of Berlin because they could no longer guarantee his safety. He chose a small town on the German-Swiss border as his new place of residence. From there he made his connections to Alsace, the Confederation, southern France and Italy.

Interviews with Albert Schweitzer , Thomas Mann , Hermann Hesse , Annette Kolb , Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Edzard Reuter , Werner Bergengruen and others. a., ensured Wolf Littmann permanent cooperation as a foreign correspondent for the Sender Freies Berlin, founded in 1953, and Bayerischer Rundfunk . A trip to Israel brought reports that were adopted by almost all ARD broadcasters in their radio programs. In the meantime, Littman had moved into his permanent residence in Bern for the broadcaster Free Berlin , from where he reported constantly for listeners in Germany.

Due to a bet, Wolf Littmann went to Frankfurt am Main for a year as a time radio editor for the Hessischer Rundfunk in 1957 . After returning to Switzerland twelve months later, Littmann got his first contact with Südwestfunk (SWF). During an international conference in Geneva, the then Südwestfunk main department head, Wolfgang Brobeil , asked him to report from Basel for the SWF evening show. A little later Littmann received the first orders for television documentaries in the evening program of the ARD. Wolf Littmann and his cameraman Erich Bottlinger were awarded the first three prizes at the 1965 International Television Competition for these documentaries.

Günter Gaus took Littmann over to the SWF report team. The first reports broadcast by Südwestfunk on April 25, 1966 contained an interview with Erich Mende , then Minister for All-German Issues , and a 20-minute film about the German Democratic Republic . The then head of the time radio editorial office was the first ARD employee to succeed in making a film for Südwestfunk in the other part of Germany without any major difficulties, together with the cameraman Peter Wendt. Then Littmann created a documentation in Israel in 1967 on the subject of "Women in Israel" and the reclamation of the Negev desert . During the shooting, the Six Day War broke out, which he reported for ARD.

His report on the Biafra War was Littmann's last report for the report editorial team. Then he took over the moderation of the program "International 3" in the 3rd program. From June 1969 to 1982 Wolf Littmann was entrusted with the management of the program Das Rasthaus , later “ ARD-Ratgeber : Auto und Verkehr”. In 1970, 1972, 1976 and 1978 he received the Christopherus Foundation's authors' prize for his journalistic achievements in this field.

From January 1983 he was special correspondent for the main information department of SWF television. In the 1980s he authored several books on topics from his journalistic experience. From 1984 to 1987 he worked as a correspondent for SWR in Zurich. In November 1987 he retired and worked freelance for Swiss magazines and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , Landeshaus Thuringia, Studio Gera.

He lived in Munich until his death in March 2000. He was temporarily married to the Swiss actress Grazita Hettinger . Their son Klaus Littmann comes from the marriage .

Awards

  • Prize of the international jury at the 1965 international television competition in Berlin for the documentary - Mensch unter Menschen - The hope of the Jews for a better Germany
  • Christophorus Prize, 1970, 1972, 1976, and 1978
  • Silver Medal of Honor of the German Traffic Guard , donated in 1978 by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Child Safety Committee Award, 1979
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon , 1980
  • Golden Heart of the Campaign - A Heart for Children - awarded in 1981 by the German Road Safety Council
  • Traffic light in bronze of the - Prevention Routiere International - 1981
  • Honorary Citizenship of Baton Rouge , USA
  • Gold Medal of Honor of the German Traffic Guard, 1984

TV productions for ARD

  • Man among people
  • Emigrant, patriot or traitor
  • Germany, a winter fairy tale
  • Germany's diplomatic service
  • The Vltava
  • A weekend in Prague
  • Perfect in three months
  • The Mila streets in Warsaw
  • Far from home in exile
  • Women in Ghana
  • Women in Israel
  • A desert becomes fertile land
  • Heinz Galinski
  • One life for Jerusalem
  • The queen of India
  • Displaced without hope
  • The pike in the carp pond
  • Looking for Peter Hora
  • Better bad than bland
  • The pastor of Tamins
  • Between Basel and Lugano
  • In search of childhood
  • The Jewish state community in Thuringia

Fonts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://tls.theaterwissenschaft.ch/wiki/Grazita_Hettinger
personal data
SURNAME Littmann, Wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Littmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2000
Place of death Munich