Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert

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Werner Erhard Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert , CBE , (born February 5, 1937 in Berlin ) is a journalist for Norddeutscher Rundfunk , who has been reporting on the European aristocracy on ARD since the late 1970s .

Life

2014 in front of the opera house in Hanover in an interview by the NDR about the Lower Saxony state exhibition " When the Royals came from Hanover "

Seelmann-Eggebert was born as the son of the lawyer and Privy Councilor Walther R. Seelmann-Eggebert . One of his godparents was the Hereditary Prince of the House of Saxony-Altenburg, Georg Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg , a client of his father. After graduating from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover in 1956 , Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert studied sociology , international law and ethnology in Bristol , Munich , Hamburg , Hanover and Göttingen . He finished his studies with a Magister Artium .

During his school and university days he was a volunteer and later a freelancer at what was then Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). After the split into North German and West German Broadcasting in 1956, he stayed with NDR as a freelancer for radio and television. From November 1964 he headed its reportage department in Hanover, then from 1968 to 1971 he was ARD correspondent for West Africa for radio in Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ) and from 1972 to 1976 TV correspondent for Africa in Nairobi . From 1977 he worked as a special correspondent in Hamburg before becoming an ARD television correspondent and studio manager in London on April 1, 1978. There, in the same year, Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert appeared for the first time as a nobility expert, reporting on the 30th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales . Also from London he broadcast the magazine Rund um Big Ben , which presented news about the United Kingdom in Germany.

Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert (left) with his colleague Günter Müggenburg

In January 1982 he became program director of the “III. Television program of the Nordkette ”(today NDR television ) and exercised this function until December 1989. During this time, Seelmann-Eggebert and director István Bury created the eleven-part series “Royal Houses” about European monarchs from 1985 to 1992. On January 1, 1990, he went to London as chief correspondent for the NDR, and from 1994 to 1996 he was head of the ARD studio there.

Seelmann-Eggebert has annually commented on the live broadcast of Trooping the Color on Das Erste since 1977 and on the Last Night of the Proms on NDR television from 1981 to 2015 , the latter also on radio. On September 10, 2011, he commented on the traditional final concert from London for the thirtieth time.

In addition to his voluntary work on the board of UNICEF Germany , he has also been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hamburger Camerata Chamber Orchestra since 2003 .

Documentary mini-series

Quotes

  • “For me, a marriage is not considered properly concluded if Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert wasn't there.” - Günter Struve , ARD program director
  • “A nightmare” - Seelmann-Eggebert (as the responsible program director of the NDR) on the reversed New Year's address on December 31, 1986 by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl
  • "I was never a monarchist and I will never be one."

Awards

Prices

State medals

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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), awarded in 1990.
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Commander des Order of the British Empire (CBE), awarded in 1992.
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Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , awarded in 1985.
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Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded in 2002.

Personal

Seelmann-Eggebert is married, has three children and one grandchild. He lives in the Wendland in Gülden . Seelmann-Eggebert is a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for World Population (DSW) .

Web links

Commons : Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentation: 'An Evening for Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert', NDR February 4, 2012
  2. ^ Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert (in collaboration with Adele Seelmann-Eggebert): In huts and palaces. Ein Reporterleben, Munich 2019, p. 23
  3. ↑ Seelmann-Eggebert's own statement during the Trooping the Color transmission 2017 , published on YouTube on June 18, 2017 (video time 0:06:23 - 0:06:39), accessed on June 10, 2018
  4. ^ NDR: "Last Night of the Proms" for the last time with Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert. In: www.ndr.de. August 7, 2015, accessed September 12, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Own information in the preliminary talk before the broadcast on NDR.
  6. ↑ The Windsors - 100 Turbulent Years (Part I) | Seelmann film. In: www.seelmannfilm.de. Retrieved December 16, 2016 .
  7. ^ Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert on royal houses, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 24./25. August 2019, p. 56
  8. ↑ Super User: THE GERMAN TELEVISION AWARD . In: deutscher-fernsehpreis.de .
  9. ↑ Dr. Frank Witzel, Andreas Riechel, Internet editor, press, communication and marketing department: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - About the person . In: uni-goettingen.de .
  10. ↑ Landluft Wendland-Magazin No. 5 2014, p. 127.
  11. ↑ dpa: Celebrity birthday on February 5, 2017: Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert .
personal data
SURNAME Seelmann-Eggebert, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seelmann-Eggebert, Werner Erhard Rolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and aristocracy expert
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin