Pioneering with humor: Udo Reiter (1944-2014)
Udo Reiter has always talked Tacheles. And as he spoke, he acted. As a journalist, as a director in public broadcasting and as a person. As a journalist, not the child is a machine and not classifying in a party camp, as was common in his time. As a director, who built a station in buccaneer fashion. And as a man who was paralyzed after an accident.
Author:. Michael Hanfeld, born in 1965, editor of the features section, responsible for “media”
He never made any secret of what he thought, what he wanted and – you got to know him better – as he went. This is demonstrated by his memoirs, which appeared two years ago. “Allow me to remain seated” is the title, just hitting the sardonic wit, the riders excelled and with which he endured the greatest crises.
As Udo Reiter was twenty-two, seemed to be over his life. A car accident, a devastating diagnosis. Rider wanted to be a pilot. Now, instead he studied German, history and politics, wrote his doctorate on “Jacob van Hoddis – Life and Poetry”. And felt his life yet again as meaningless. Reiter bought a revolver, Brand Smith & Wesson, 38 special and wanted to shoot himself. But then, Reiter writes in his memoirs that he had, as the gun in front of him, noticed that he did not want to die.
Polite and funny and melancholic
The question of what makes life worth living, how to design it, it can withstand and how it comes to an end – she has accompanied tab. “I want all alone decide when it is so far and I do not want. Without guardianship of a cardinal, a medical Chairman or a member of the Bundestag, “he writes in his book. The relevant passage goes even further – it goes into detail. Today we read it as an announcement. On Friday Udo Reiter is divorced from life. He was seventy years old.
As the riders self-determined dying made on the subject, one can not help but to understand this as the last point of a struggle. He always fought: for recognition, for affection, for his place in the society. And therefore, that these busy with his last issue. He made sure that ARD involved therein, he went on podiums, on talk shows, to fight with Verve for its position, which is:. My life belongs to me and my death also
Udo Reiter was a brilliant man, polite, funny and melancholic formed. He has made a brilliant career. Bayerischer Rundfunk he rose to the radio director. He hired Thomas Gottschalk at the youth wave of the transmitter and built “currently B 5″ with the first news program on. In 1991 he became a founding director of the Central German Radio.
rebirth excluded
He started at less than zero at, had to toil with the Stasi and SED-contaminated sites and make some money with a program off the ground. He took the liberty of fee revenues profitably, but not without creating risk. The transmitter flowed to tens of millions, struck a deal with a loss of 2.6 million euros. The rider was maintained, although the balance was positive. Then the scandal involving a corrupt sporting director, a production manager of the children’s channel-serviced in their own pockets, and a Head of Entertainment, the producers were forced to strange transfers.
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Derlei scandals also occurred in other channels, but hailstones it rider the harvest, that he would actually allowed to enter. 2011, after twenty years at the helm of the MDR, he resigned. In the same year his first wife died. What he has done for the public broadcasting, his pioneering work, his courage – which was not fully appreciated in his resignation. With a little distance you will be able to recognize it: The ARD has a great director verloren.Bei a visit with his second wife, writer Elsenbusch Heuer, in a Hare Krishna temple in New York, Reiter writes in his book, he had a get piece “Prasadam”: “This is a holy cookie that prevents one is born as a dog. That at least is therefore excluded. “With such a set Udo Reiter had finished his own obituary.
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