Elegant appearance even in Viet Cong captivity: Scholl-Latour and assistants, 1973
His office on the Champs-Elysées was small and dark. From the rooms of the ARD Studios Paris hardly went to the window light. But Peter Scholl-Latour was not the man to be satisfied with it. He bought for the WDR around the corner two floors in a new modern office building, still one of the best investments of the transmitter.
Fifteen years later, I would benefit from it, as I became his successor as head of ARD Studio in Paris. He himself no longer moved into the bright new rooms. Because he had become director of the WDR television. For a short time. As a young editorial assistant I met him in 1969 in his Bürokabuff know. Because I spoke French, the WDR had sent me as an assistant to Paris.
An independent spirit
General Charles de Gaulle resigned from the office of the president. New elections were to Senate President Alain Poher against former Prime Minister Georges Pompidou. In a few words, told me, “Scholl”, as he was known, why would gain Pompidou. Clear. Was then too. In the evening he invited me home. There was pea soup. I hung on his lips and tried the man who embodied the archetype of the great journalists for us younger kids to understand.
He admired Charles de Gaulle. But he was not a Gaullist. At first I thought, Scholl was a conservative. But then he praised the student uprising of May ’68 by saying that it was but was a nice, romantic experience. He was injured during the riots in Paris, a splinter was lost in his derrière. Incidentally, the only injury he ever suffered during operations.
De Gaulle to admire while romanticizing the student revolt, this includes a very independent spirit. The embodied Peter Scholl-Latour his life. In his world of thought political correctness had no place. He has never been about exchanging favors went. He drew his positions with conviction.
He knew them all
When he tried to speak the text to his first television film itself, came a mighty television and said that since we take a trained speaker. Because with such a voice could not speak. Who has made the voice recording? He, Peter Scholl-Latour. Even his mumbling became a trademark.
television does indeed external. What many men even in the studio not create, embodied Peter Scholl-Latour even in the wilderness, just good and elegant look. Who knows the images, as Scholl had been captured with a camera team from the Vietcong, who sees him as maintained exactly in the rice field, as usual in the streets of Saigon.
A number of key experiences explain this man. So he knew almost all the villains in the world. The interest in it had the original in his youth. When he was a child, the family employed a chauffeur from Poland. This man has loved everything about Peter. Later, it turned out that the driver had killed his wife.
Peter Scholl-Latour in 2011 at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Photogallery
Born
In Bochum, the son of a derived from the Saarland doctor and an Alsatian (ie French) mother, he grew up bilingual. His parents sent him because of their difficulties with the Nazis (his mother had Jewish ancestors) in 1936 that strictly Catholic Jesuit College St. Michel in Fribourg in Switzerland. And the Jesuits have sharpened his mind.
The parents were eventually forbidden to send money to Switzerland, so that Peter Scholl-Latour graduated from high school in 1943 made in Kassel. I can imagine that the French adventurer and journalist Joseph Kessel has played him the pattern for an exciting life. In January 1945, Scholl-Latour wants to penetrate to the Allied troops in France, which he did not succeed. He flees “in youthful exuberance and reprehensible levity” (as he writes in “Life with France”, 1988) from the Gestapo and comes in Graz in Gestapo custody, survived despite typhus.
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