Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler
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Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler | |
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Died | 20 September 2001 | (aged 83)
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Political party | SED-PDS (1989–1990) Socialist Unity Party (1948–1989) |
Spouse(s) | Marlis Hoeres (1940) Inge Keller (1952) Christine Laszar (1958) Marta Rafael (1960) |
Children | Stephan (von) Schnitzler Barbara Schnitzler Karin Schnitzler |
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (28 April 1918 – 20 September 2001) was a German journalist, communist propagandist[1] and host of the television show Der schwarze Kanal (German: The Black Channel) from 1960 to 1989.
Early life
Schnitzler was born in Berlin, the son of German vice consul Julius Eduard von Schnitzler, scion of a Cologne banking dynasty, who had been ennobled by the state of Prussia in 1913. Karl-Eduard attended a boarding school at Bad Godesberg and joined the Sozialistische Arbeiter-Jugend youth organisation of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1932. After receiving his school-leaving qualification in 1937, he began studying medicine at the University of Freiburg.
Early career
Abandoning his medical studies, Schnitzler trained for a business career in Cologne and embarked on a commercial apprenticeship. In 1939, he became the owner of a delivery business.
Career in the GDR
Schnitzler moved to the
As host of Der Schwarze Kanal, which ran for 20 minutes every Monday night, Schnitzler edited together extracts of Western television footage and recorded caustic, virulently anti-Western commentary over it. The show was particularly derisive towards
Post-GDR career and death
In the course of the 1989
Interviews with Schnitzler can be found in Stasiland by Anna Funder and The Saddled Cow by Anne McElvoy.
Sources
- OCLC 55891480.
- Gerlof, Kathrin: GegenSpieler: Gerhard Löwenthal, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-596-14183-4.
- Prase, Tilo, Kretzschmar, Judith: Propagandist und Heimatfilmer. Die Dokumentarfilme des Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (= Materialien – Analysen – Zusammenhänge. 10). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937209-28-X.
- Axel Schildt (2007), "Schnitzler, Karl-Eduard Richard Arthur Gerhard von", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 23, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 333–334; (full text online)
- Goodrum, Sarah: A Socialist Family of Man. Rita Maahs’ and Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler’s Exhibition „Vom Glück des Menschen“. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen 12 (2015), p. 370–382.
References
- ^ Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler
- ^ André Meier (biography film producer). "Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler – Klassenkämpfer und Lebemann". Review of a film on Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler which includes interviews with daughter, Barbara Schnitzler. mdr – Kultur. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ Schnitzlers Schlägerei im Studio. Die Welt, 17 December 1998. Accessed on 14 August 2020
External links
- Obituaries: Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, The Independent, 4 October 2001