Wolfgang Brobeil

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Wolfgang Brobeil (born February 20, 1911 in Strasbourg ; † January 26, 1981 in Mainz ) was a German journalist , editor and director . He is considered to be the founder of Zeitfunks on radio as well as television on Südwestfunk and carnival broadcasts on German television.

education

Brobeil attended the Helmholtz School in Frankfurt am Main . After graduating from high school in 1929, he decided to study in preparation for a journalistic profession. Subsequently he studied German , history , art history , economics , philosophy and sociology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. With his dissertation, which Karl Mannheim supervised as a doctoral supervisor and Norbert Elias had previously assessed, he received his doctorate on March 10, 1936 under Heinz Marr with the topic The category of the federal government in the system of sociology to the doctorate phil. His examiner was Ernst Krieck .

job

From 1934 Brobeil worked as a freelancer for the successor to Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (SÜWRAG), the Reich broadcaster in Frankfurt , for whom he wrote reports on the economic and social issues. In 1937 he became a reporter for Zeitfunks and head of social services for the Reichsender Saarbrücken .

During the Second World War he was used as a war correspondent from 1940 and worked for the Reichsender Berlin . In French captivity, he worked from 1945 to 1947 as editor of the Paris weekly newspaper Die neue Brücke and the monthly Die Brücke of the Christian Association of Young Men (YMCA). He reported on German prisoners of war and German civil workers in France.

From September 1, 1948, Brobeil was given responsibility for setting up the time radio department by Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden . From April 1, 1949 on, he was a reporter and head of the news department, deploying experienced radio reporters such as Roderich Dietze , Erwin Vater or Rolf Wernicke - Paul Laven was also a repeated guest.

In 1952 he spent three months in the United States to study the medium of television . To Baden-Baden returned Brobeil began alongside his work as head of radio time in the radio set up by a recent documentary and television production of Südwestfunk. Brobeil was not satisfied with the management function and the structure of SWF television; he always wanted to do his own programs or contribute to programs at the same time. In doing so, he increased the coverage of the coverage beyond the actual broadcast area.

As a reporter and director, he preferred political and sociological topics, but also devoted himself to archaeological topics. In 1953 Brobeil produced his first film Bergsteiger am Battert .

From April 1, 1954 Brobeil was active as a department head of Zeitfunks in radio and as head of the production group news on television.

“ When television started we pushed into the new medium without neglecting radio. It turned out that there is no better role model for current and documentary television than radio. "

- Dr. Wolfgang Brobeil

In the early 1950s, Brobeil recorded excerpts from carnival sessions in the program as part of Zeitfunks , which became very popular with listeners. Brobeil therefore developed the idea of ​​a television program for the annual climax of the carnival season, which was planned as a carnival-like community meeting of Mainz associations. Due to his initiative and under his direction, the show Mainz, how it sings and laughs , started on February 17, 1955 . Initially, the performers came from the Mainz Carneval Association (MCV) and the Mainz Carneval Club (MCC), including Herbert Bonewitz .

“ We made the Mainz carnival meetings exportable in the first place by taking them out of their local, trivial and obscene atmosphere. "

- Dr. Wolfgang Brobeil

When pre-selecting the carnival contributions, Brobeil picked up a pen: on the program sheet, he marked a circle at all points where the audience responded with a hearty laugh to the speaker or the performance. If, on the other hand, the smile remained, it was not considered TV-ready.

At important conferences in Geneva or Paris, Brobeil acted repeatedly as head of the ARD reporting team. He has also been a commentator on a number of Eurovision programs.

On March 3, 1956, the SWF Brobeils broadcast a report about German Jews who had settled in Israel. On November 6, 1956, Brobeil commented on the political and psychological background of the popular uprising in Hungary . From July 1, 1961, Brobeil was the main head of the time radio department in radio and television at Südwestfunk. On June 30, 1962, he left the Südwestfunk after being poached by Karl Holzamer , and switched to ZDF the next day. Brobeil and Holzamer knew each other very well, Holzamer had been chairman of the SWF since the founding years.

Brobeil contributed significantly to the development of the new television station and its programming. As the main department head for culture and as deputy program director of the ZDF, he was responsible for the offers for children and young people and the cultural programs, subsequently for around 1,100 television programs a year with a volume of around 30,000 minutes.

“ At ZDF, it appealed to me to be able to start all over again at the age of 51, even though I was aware that, due to time constraints, I could no longer do my own programs. "

- Dr. Wolfgang Brobeil

In the first ZDF yearbook (1962/64) Brobeil wrote that programs that require a higher education lack the meaning of the mass medium of television. He built ZDF's main culture department from scratch. He could be sure of the support of Holzamer. Both had the same high standards when it came to bringing life support, education and culture of bourgeois tradition into the field of view of the masses who were at the mercy of the medium of television. Under Brobeil's leadership, series of programs were developed, some of which still exist today: Aspects , From Research and Technology (today: Leschs Kosmos ), The Great Prize , Health Magazine Praxis , Impulse , Jugend in der Bütt , Forget-Me-Not (later: Aktion Sorgekind or Aktion Human ) ...

Brobeil retired on December 31, 1975. Nevertheless, he continued to conduct the broadcast of the Mainz carnival broadcasts, Mainz remains as it sings and laughs . In 1981 he wanted to lead the television carnival show one last time, but that was no longer possible. He died of a stroke shortly before at the age of 69. The then ZDF program director Dieter Stolte praised him “as one of the great pioneers of German television, who was and will remain a role model for many broadcasters because of his professional competence and integrity of character”. The long-time chairman of the Mainz television carnival sessions, Rolf Braun, as well as carnivalist and "Gonsbach-Lerche" Josef "Joe" Ludwig paid tribute to the "father" of the television carnival.

Honors

  • For his first film Bergsteiger am Battert , Brobeil received first prize at the International Trento Film Festival in Trento in 1954 .
  • In 1976 Brobeil was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class, by the Federal President . He played a key role in setting up the Südwestfunk-Zeitfunks and successfully used the medium of television for Franco-German relations. He saw one of his life's tasks as awakening and strengthening the traditional awareness of carnival customs.
  • Wolfgang-Brobeil-Strasse was named after him on the premises of the ZDF broadcasting center in Mainz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mainz, how it sings and laughs . From: fernsehlexikon.de, accessed on May 29, 2016
  2. ↑ I want to see him! Dr. Wolfgang Brobeil . In: Hörzu, February 10, 1952
  3. ↑ Herbert Bonewitz: The father of the television carnival. Memories of Dr. Wolfgang Brobeil . In: Mainz aktuell , 1/2006, pp. 41–45.
  4. ↑ Mainz as it sings and laughs . From: fernsehserien.de, accessed on May 29, 2016
  5. ↑ The history of the television carnival . From: swr.de, accessed on May 29, 2016
  6. ↑ The television carnival invented. Memories of Dr. Wolfgang Brobeil, who died 25 years ago today . In Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz , No. 22, January 26, 2006. p. 11.
  7. ↑ Between splendor and stink . In: Die Zeit , February 24, 1995. From: zeit.de, accessed on May 29, 2016
  8. ↑ Fools at the till . In: Der Spiegel , February 5, 1964. From: spiegel.de, accessed on May 29, 2016
  9. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Hymmen : A man for whom the radio was still a cultural instrument - On the death of Wolfgang Brobeil . In: Kirche und Rundfunk , No. 8, January 31, 1981, Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd)
  10. ^ ZDF carnival continues with Dr. Wolfgang Brobeil . In: Hamburger Abendblatt of October 13, 1977. From: Abendblatt.de, accessed on May 29, 2016
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Brobeil died in Mainz . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 28, 1981
  12. ↑ Farewell to the father of the television carnival . In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz , January 27, 1981
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Brobeil died . In: epd - Kirche und Rundfunk , No. 7, January 28, 1981, p. 12.
  14. ↑ Father of the TV Carnival died: stroke . In: Abendpost Nachtausgabe , Frankfurt, January 27, 1981
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Brobeil: Bergsteiger am Battert , 1953. On: trentofestival.it, accessed on May 29, 2016
  16. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Dr. Wolfgang Brobeil . In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz , December 1, 1976
personal data
SURNAME Brobeil, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1981
Place of death Mainz , Germany