Richard Tüngel

Richard Tüngel (1893 – 1970) was a German journalist and publisher, originally an architect and a longtime Director of Construction (Baudirektor) in Hamburg. He was a co-founder of Die Zeit.

Life

Removed from this position by the Nazis in 1933, he went to Berlin, where he lived until 1945 as a translator and writer. For example, one still finds his name on current German-language editions of Igor Stravinsky's memoirs. Immediately after the war, he was one of the co-founders of Die Zeit, initially as fiction editor (Feuilletonchef) and a bit later as editor-in-chief.

After that it is remarkably difficult to find biographical information about him, not least because he had a rather inglorious departure from Die Zeit: He had to leave, after Marion Dönhoff had provoked a scandal by enforcing a decision concerning the political line of the paper. Tüngel, who was described by his successor as editor-in-chief as "...helpful and inconvenient. Brilliant and the embodiment of antagonism and artistic temperament,"[1] stood politically on the right and was steering Die Zeit into a current "farther right than the CDU" (the German Christian Democratic Union). In 1955, the "difficult, but at the same time respected and feared"[1] man had to resign. The years-long arguments between Bucerius and the newspaper's co-founders, which had started as early as 1949, ended in 1956 because Tüngel was no longer a partner.

Tüngel's published Auf dem Bauche sollst du kriechen... Deutschland unter den Besatzungsmächten in 1958, co-written with journalist Hans Rudolf Berndorff and describing their experience of the immediate post-war years.[2] The book is sometimes referred to as his "memoirs". The book was reissued by Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Dahrendorf, Ralf (2000). Liberal und unabhängig: Gerd Bucerius und seine Zeit [Liberal and independent: Gerd Bucerius and his times] (in German). München: C.H. Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-46474-4.
  2. ^ Tüngel, Richard; Berndorff, Hans Rudolf (1958). Auf dem Bauche sollst du Kriechen: Deutschland unter den Besatzungsmächten [Upon thy belly shalt thou go... Germany under the Occupying Powers] (in German). C. Wegner.
  3. ^ Tüngel, Richard; Berndorff, Hans Rudolf; Földényi, F. László (2004). Stunde Null: Deutschland unter den Besatzungsmächten [Zero Hour: Germany under the Occupying Powers] (in German). Berlin: Matthes & Seitz. ISBN 978-3-88221-809-1.

Further reading

  • Hachmeister, Lutz; Siering, Friedemann, eds. (2002). Die Herren Journalisten: die Elite der deutschen Presse nach 1945 [The gentlemen journalists: the elite of the German press after 1945]. Beck'sche Reihe (in German) (Originalausg ed.). München: Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-47597-9. – a balanced but critical view
  • Schwarzer, Alice (2002). Marion Dönhoff: ein widerständiges Leben [Marion Dönhoff: A Life of Resistance] (in German) (18. Aufl ed.). Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. ISBN 978-3-462-02531-6. – A biography of Marion Dönhoff discussing Tüngel
  • Dönhoff, Marion; Bucerius, Gerd; Kuenheim, Haug von; Sommer, Theo, eds. (2003). Ein wenig betrübt, ihre Marion: Marion Gräfin Dönhoff und Gerd Bucerius: ein Briefwechsel aus fünf Jahrzehnten [A little saddened, Yours Marion: Marion Gräfin Dönhoff and Gerd Bucerius. A correspondence over five decades] (in German) (1. Aufl ed.). Berlin: Siedler. ISBN 978-3-88680-798-7. – Correspondence between Dönhoff and Gerd Bucerius
  • Kuenheim, Von Haug von (2011-02-21). "Wie alles begann" [How it all began]. DIE ZEIT (in German). Retrieved 2026-03-11.
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