Alfred Thorwarth

Alfred Thorwarth (born March 14, 1938 ; † May 6, 2018 in Pulheim - Brauweiler ) was a German television editor who played a key role in establishing nature and environmental protection issues on German television.

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After working at Deutsche Welle , Thorwarth became an editor in 1969 for the newly established main science department at Westdeutscher Rundfunk . In 1978 he moderated the environmental magazine Arche 2000 together with Dieter Kaiser . In 1979 he took over the management of the training and leisure program group at WDR. From 1980 to 1983 he was managing director of the regionalization / decentralization project group , which was entrusted with the planning for the construction of the state studios and the development of the regional programs. In 1981 Thorwarth created the environmental and science magazine Globus , which was broadcast from 1982 and replaced in 2003 by the program W for Knowledge . It was moderated alternately by Ranga Yogeshwar , Jean Pütz , Hartmut Stumpf , Dieter Kuhr and Thorwarth himself. In 1983 Thorwarth became deputy head of the WDR regional studio in Cologne under Jochen Denso . In 1989 he headed the Science / Ecology program group and in 1993 became deputy head of the Culture and Science program area . Thorwarth retired in April 2001.

Thorwarth was particularly fascinated by the seas. In 1985 he worked in the four-part series Enterprise Deep Sea and in 1992 in the eight-part television series Mediterranean 2000 , for which he also wrote the booklet.

Thorwarth was buried in the Bad Münstereifel Friedwald .

literature

• Press kit WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk: Longtime WDR employee Alfred Thorwarth adopted by TV director Jörn Klamroth on April 27, 2001. Online version

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative page by Alfred Thorwarth. Accessed May 31, 2018 .