Wolfgang Czechne

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Wolfgang Chechne (born December 26, 1924 in Schweidnitz , Lower Silesia Province ; † December 7, 2019 in Lübeck ) was a German columnist and author .

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Wolfgang Chechne was baptized in the Friedenskirche in Schweidnitz. His father was a senior official at the Deutsche Reichsbahn . He was transferred to Wroclaw when the son was five years old. Czechne attended the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau, was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a soldier in 1942 and was taken prisoner by the British in Italy shortly before the end of the war. Back in Germany, Chechne went back to school and graduated from high school in Holzminden. In 1948 he joined the SPD .

He began his journalistic career with an internship at the Norddeutsche Zeitung in Hanover. From 1952 he worked as an editor and department head at the Braunschweiger Presse . Wolfgang Tschechne joined in 1960 as head of the features section -Ressorts to Hannoversche Rundschau and 1971 after the merger of Hanover Press . In 1977, Tschechne went to Lübeck to join the Lübecker Nachrichten , where he was head of the culture department until 1990. Even in retirement he continued to work as a music and theater critic for the newspaper.

As a publicist, in addition to his journalistic work, he mainly dealt with Thomas Mann's Lübeck , the writer Paul Keller and his Silesian homeland. Already for the 1966 anthology Schlesisches Panorama. On a trip home he wrote an article about his hometown Schweidnitz, now Świdnica, in which he wrote about his baptismal church: “Anyone who has ever attended a service here, who may even have been lucky enough to witness a midnight Christmas celebration in the overcrowded expanse of the church who was able to experience the intimate connection between devout prayer and ecclesiastical space. ”In Polonaise in Silesia. Czechne wrote notes from a foreign homeland , "that I have also come to make my peace with my homeland". Herbert Hupka (1915–2006) paid tribute to “the Silesian in Lübeck” in 2005 on the occasion of his 80th birthday in the Schlesische Nachrichten : “As a young journalist, in the following decades he was both a connoisseur of Silesia, which he first had to learn, and was excellent Publicist rose to the prominent names who were still active in Silesia and were the first after 1945 to testify to Silesia and to convey the size and beauty of Silesia. ”In their obituary, the Lübecker Nachrichten emphasized his philanthropy as a defining characteristic of Tschechnes emerged. He never wrote hurtful reviews - for example in the case of theater reviews; the most devastating remark about a failed premiere was: "You did the author no favor by putting his work on stage."

Czechne was married twice. His first marriage to his wife Gertrude, with whom he was married from 1953 until her death in 1998, gave birth to their son Martin Chechne , who also became a journalist and publicist. In his second marriage he married the journalist Sieglinde Czechne-Werner.

Awards

In 1956, Czechne received the town's plaque of honor in Braunschweig. The city of Lübeck awarded him the Senate badge in 1996.

Works (selection)

  • In the front yard of paradise (2007)
  • Big Or, Big Stream (2006)
  • The Elbe from source to mouth (2003)
  • Silesia (2003)
  • Polonaise in Silesia. Notes from a Foreign Home (2002)
  • Lübeck and its theater - the story of a long love (1995)
  • Schleswig-Holstein (1994)
  • The Rhine (1992)
  • Thomas Manns Lübeck (1991)
  • The Elbe from source to mouth (1991)
  • Lübeck and its artists (1987)
  • Heinrich Zille, court concert in the Secret Annex (1976)
  • The bitten apple - what's next with sex? (1969)
  • I still have my nose in Berlin - the porcupine book (1967)
  • Beloved Cities (1967, as editor)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell to the old master Wolfgang Chechne , Lübecker Nachrichten of December 15, 2019, accessed on December 16, 2019
  2. ^ Ulrich Meyenborg : The Lübeck SPD from 1968 to 2003 . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2005, p. 106
  3. ↑ Humanly disappointed . In: Die Zeit , No. 1/1973
  4. ^ A b Herbert Hupka : A Silesian in Lübeck . ( Memento of August 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 589 kB) In: Schlesische Nachrichten , January 15, 2005, p. 9
  5. ^ Herbert Hupka : Baptized in the Friedenskirche . ( Memento of August 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 589 kB) In: Schlesische Nachrichten , February 15, 2003
  6. ^ A b Jürgen Feldhoff: Farewell to the old master. In: Lübecker Nachrichten, 15./16. December 2019, p. 35.
  7. ↑ Martin Chechne editor-in-chief at Weltkunst . BDZV press release of December 14, 2005
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Chechne, Martin Chechne: Talking about pictures - that is a gift from God . (PDF; 615 kB) In: Weltkunst
  9. ↑ Senate badge for culture editor Wolfgang Chechne . Communication from the Hanseatic City of Lübeck dated September 11, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Czech, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 2019
Place of death Lübeck