Wolfgang Rödel

Wolfgang Rödel (born June 27, 1924 in Gersdorf ; † July 21, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German media scientist and feature writer .

Life

Rödel joined the NSDAP on September 1, 1942 in Gersdorf ( membership number 9.166.651).

After the war he became a member of the SED and a senior employee of the State Committee for Broadcasting in the GDR. He was a professor of journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . Rödel became dean of the Faculty of Journalism in 1963 as the successor to Hermann Budzislawski . The focus of his work was in the area of radio, for which he worked as a feature author until his death.

For his work he received, among other things, the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit .

Wolfgang Rödel lived in Glienicke / Nordbahn . In July 2007, at the age of 83, he died of complications from cancer in a hospital in Berlin-Buch.

Forster and Lichtenberg. A contribution to the problem of German intelligence and the French Revolution . Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 1960.
Image of man and journalism . Brandenburg: Association of German Journalists, 1967.

Meeting in the hall . Director: Helmut Hellstorff . Prod .: Broadcasting of the GDR, 1967. (Feature about Heinrich Heine)
“As if someone had gotten wonderfully drunk”. Hans Fallada's years in Carwitz . Feature with Hilmar Thate , Jutta Wachowiak u. a. Director: Horst Liepach . Prod .: ORB, 1993. ( Published in 2000 under the title Hans Falladas Jahre in Carwitz as audio book by Audio Verlag. ISBN 3-89813-121-1 )

Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 272.
Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Berlin historica, 2009, pp. 491–492, ISBN 978-3939929123

personal data
SURNAME	Rödel, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German media scientist and feature author
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gersdorf
DATE OF DEATH	July 21, 2007
Place of death	Berlin