Wolfgang Labuhn

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Wolfgang Labuhn (born November 7, 1948 in Morgenland / Wesermarsch district ) is a German journalist . Until 2012 he was the correspondent for foreign and security policy in the Berlin capital studio of the Deutschlandradio. Before that he was head of the news department at Deutschlandfunk and a correspondent in London.

Life

After graduating from the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Delmenhorst and completing basic military service, Labuhn began studying German and English at the University of Bonn in 1969 . In 1970/1971 he spent a year as a PAD teaching assistant in Gloucestershire (England). In 1975 he passed the first state examination in philology for teaching at grammar schools, but then remained as a research assistant (1975/1976) and as a research assistant (1976 to 1979) at the German Department of the University of Bonn. The focus of his academic work was the examination of political literature under the censorship of the German Confederation since 1815. At the same time, he was DAAD lecturer for German studies at the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) in 1976/1977. In 1979 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with a thesis on the journalist and writer Ludwig Börne.

After completing his doctorate, Labuhn joined the BBC's German Language Service in London in 1979 , where he worked as a translator, moderator and author.

In 1985 he switched to Deutschlandfunk in Cologne . There he worked in the newsroom as an editor, moderator, reporter and author. The programs he moderated mainly included “Information in the morning” and “Information at noon”. A phone call he presented live on October 24, 1989 between Wolf Biermann (Hamburg) and Bärbel Bohley (East Berlin) met with wide press coverage .

In 1991 he took over the management of the newly created Zeitfunk editorial team at Deutschlandfunk and, from 1996, also managed the news department . In this role, too, he regularly moderated the most important current information programs.

In 1999 Labuhn became Germany radio correspondent in London and swapped duties with Burkhard Birke . Its reporting area included the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

From 2004 until his retirement in 2012, he was a correspondent for foreign and security policy at the Deutschlandradio capital studio. During his professional activity in radio from 1979 to 2012, Labuhn broadcast over 5,000 current reports, interviews, comments, reports and features.

As a freelance journalist, Labuhn has been the Berlin correspondent of the monthly trade journal Europäische Sicherheit & Technik since 2013 .

Book publications

  • HH Houben: The eternal censor. Ed. V. Claus Richter and Wolfgang Labuhn (= reprint of the Police and Censorship Edition , Berlin 1926). Kronberg / Taunus 1978, ISBN 3-7610-8800-0
  • Literature and the public in the Vormärz. The example of Ludwig Börne . Königstein / Taunus 1980 (= Dissertation Bonn 1979), ISBN 3-445-02015-9
  • "Art - a daughter of time" . New studies on Ludwig Börne. Ed. V. Inge Rippmann and Wolfgang Labuhn. Bielefeld 1988, ISBN 3-925670-12-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Delmenhorst. Former. Abitur class 1967
  2. ↑ See "Public Opinion". About their word and conceptual history in German. In: Journal for German Philology 98 (1979) pp. 209–217.
  3. ↑ Newsroom . In: BBC broadcasts in German October 1982 - March 1983. Published by the British Broadcasting Corporation , London 1982.
  4. ↑ Among other things, great hope and skepticism in one breast. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung October 25, 1989, p.13. Telephone conversation between Wolf Biermann and Bärbel Bohley . In: BILD newspaper October 25, 1989, page 4. Werner Micke: Dirt in the phone . In: Neues Deutschland , October 26, 1989, p.2. See also: Wolf Biermann: Don't wait for better times! The autobiography . Berlin 2016. p. 407. ISBN 978-3-549-07473-2 .
  5. ^ Rüdiger Wilhelmi: Deutschlandradio. With lean production. In: Medienspiegel. Media service of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research . Volume 19. Number 7. February 13, 1995.
  6. ^ Mechthild Zschau: Radio from the cockpit . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung March 5, 1993, p. 25.
  7. ↑ Radio People. In: Deutschlandradio. The two programs. Program January 1998, p. 84.
  8. ↑ https://www.deutschlandradio.de/neubesetzung-im-deutschlandfunk-burkhard-birke-leitet-die.504.de.html?drpm:pressrelease_id=121
  9. ↑ European Security & Technology . Mittler Report Verlag GmbH, Bonn. Imprint since January 2013. ISSN  2193-746X .
personal data
SURNAME Labuhn, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Orient , Wesermarsch district