Wolfgang Kohrt

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Wolfgang Kohrt (born August 13, 1950 - August 19, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German journalist .

life and work

Kohrt studied journalism in the journalism section at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From the late 1970s he worked as a foreign policy editor for the Junge Welt and wrote articles for the NBI , Prisma and Atze . Kohrt told a reporter for the New York Times in December 1989 that he saw the political change in the GDR as a liberation.

After 1990 Kohrt wrote for Extra und Tango and from 1996 for the Berliner Zeitung . He also worked for Spiegel , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Zeit and Magazin . He was particularly interested in Eastern Europe.

Kohrt died in Berlin at the age of 58 of an inoperable brain tumor. His son Alexander Fehling and his nephew Niklas Kohrt are both actors.

Publications (selection)

  • Birthday party at Goethe. What happens three days a year in the house and apartment of the greatest German poet on Frauenplan in Weimar . In: Prisma , vol. 1989, issue 2, pp. 8-13 and 73.
  • All the good years. Deadly serious stories . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-359-00506-6 . (Illustrations by Hans Ticha )
  • Essay, In: Carl Hegemann (Ed.): Enjoy humiliation . (Volume III of Capitalism and Depression). Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89581-065-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Binder: Pheaval in the East; A Paper Daring in More Ways Than One . New York Times, December 8, 1989.
  2. ^ On the road to the east: Memory of Wolfgang Kohrt . Berliner Zeitung, January 19, 2019
  3. ↑ Our colleague Wolfgang Kohrt died after a serious illness . In: Berliner Zeitung, August 22, 2008.
  4. ↑ Alexander Fehling: My father Wolfgang Kohrt . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kohrt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1950
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2008
Place of death Berlin