Journalist and best-selling author Peter Scholl-Latour is dead – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

 
          

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 

     
 
             
     
                          Peter Scholl-Latour (1924-2014)
             

 
 
 
     
 
     
     
                                                             

One of his last books was entitled “The world out of joint”. As in many of his earlier books, it took on global and regional conflicts of this tireless author also here to bring conceptual order to the “chaos” of the present.

             
                                                             
                                 

His audience thanked him this effort with great popularity. Not a few of his books became bestsellers. His most famous appeared in 1979: “Death in the rice field”. The book on the Indochina wars not only received high praise from critics, but was sold with 1.3 million copies, until then best selling German-language fiction book after the 1945th

             
         
 
 
 
 
             

                     
                     
                 
                                                                                          
 
                 
                                                                                                          Peter Scholl-Latour in 2011 at the Frankfurt Book Fair
                                         
 
                     
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Scholl-Latour worked, after studying political science in Mainz and Paris, since 1950 as a journalist and reported in the following years by numerous areas of conflict around the world. In the fifties falls a short interlude in the policy, namely as Saarland government spokesman before the journalism finally gained the upper hand.

             
         

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In the late fifties he was increasingly in Africa on the road, where he talks about the processes of decolonization reported. In the sixties he built the new ARD television studio in Paris. From there he brought the Germans, the French neighbors closer, with a book on Charles de Gaulle. “In the wake of General” (1966)

             
                                                             

This was followed by two years as director of the First TV channel WDR, then switching to the ZDF as chief correspondent in Paris. Between 1975 and 1983 Scholl-Latour finally headed in the French capital, the ZDF studio before he moved for four years to the board of the publishing house Gruner + Jahr, where he was responsible for the television activities of the Group. After his retirement he devoted himself entirely to journalism.

             
                                                             

In the nineties Scholl-Latour devoted to the emerging Islam and the incalculable in his eyes disintegration of the established post-1945 world order. That he designed image of Islam was not without it. His success as a publicist did not detract from this criticism.

             
                                                             

America’s “war on terror”, he was skeptical of the German foreign policy he encouraged to free themselves from the principle of the transatlantic “unquestioning loyalty”. The “last world explainer” called “Der Spiegel” Scholl-Latour once, which remained highly active even in old age as a political world traveler and author.

             
                                                             

“world power in quicksand” (2004) he sat down with the American policy after the attacks of 2001 apart, “Russia in the pincer grasp” (2006) analyzed the scope of Putin’s policies.

             
 
   
 
 
 
 
           

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