On the death of Ralph Girodano: A specialist of militancy – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          Ralph Giordano (20 March 1923 to 10 December 2014), here in a recording from last year
     

 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                              

At the age of 91 years, the publicist, writer and filmmaker Ralph Giordano died in a Cologne hospital where he was admitted after a fall a few weeks ago.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

Born Ralph Giordano was on March 20, 1923 in Hamburg: Together with two siblings, he grew up in the district of Barmbek. His father was of Sicilian descent, the German Jewish mother. Both parents were musicians by profession.

                         
         
         
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Giordano attended elementary school after four years from April 1933 in Hamburg-Winterhude most prestigious classical education of the Hanseatic city, the Johannine. There took place, according to his own admission on the first day of school in the division “Aryans” and “non-Aryans”. As the earliest and one of the most painful experiences ever Giordano once described the friendship and sympathy withdrawal by propaganda influenced playmates. Finally he fell because of his Jewish mother under the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Race Laws of September 1935. ‘/ P>
                         
         
         
                                                             

He had to leave high school in 1940 in the upper fifth (11th grade). At this time he was repeatedly interrogated by the Gestapo and severely abused, the first time just bombed the age of 16 in September 1939. In July 1943, in Hamburg, the family fled to Bösdorf / Altmark. She was denounced and returned in May 1944 back to Hamburg. When the mother should be deported, the family was hidden by a woman from Hamburg in a ruined cellar. On 4 May 1945 the British 8th Army liberated the completely emaciated family.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Giordano decided to stay after the war in Germany and to strive for reclamation and explanation of dehumanization during the Nazi regime. In 1946, he joined the Communist Party of Germany at (KPD -Landesorganisation Hamburg) and worked until 1956 for communist newspapers (among others the “Hamburger People’s Daily”). In 1949, he pursued also as Rapport eur for the “weekly newspaper of the Jews in Germany” the trial of Veit Harlan, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Jud Süss” (1940), who was acquitted on Giordano’s great displeasure.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Instead of going for the West German “mirror” in its first imprint in 1947 still showed up his name, he opted for a collaboration in the East Berlin “world stage”. In the former GDR, he also took part in the first course of 1955/1956, founded by Alfred Kurella writer Leipzig School. The confrontation with Stalinism eventually led to his departure from communism. 1957 Giordano left the Communist Party and took place in August a new home in the “General Jewish weekly newspaper”.

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The unsparing with himself he put in the form of the 1961 published book “The Party is always right” down. About this book he came in 1961 with the television Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). He was there in April 1961 Employees of the East-West editors. 1964 Giordano moved to Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR) and made as a documentary film career. His main themes were education about Nazism, Fascism, Stalinism, and the problems of the Third World, which he in several movies (“Hela Safari – The Legend of the German colonial idyll in Africa”; “hunger – challenge to the death”; ” slums – backyard of mankind “) pointed

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