Bernhard Lichte

Bernhard Maria Lichte (born March 4, 1955 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German journalist.

Life

Lichte studied political science, journalism and sociology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. After completing his master's degree, he completed a radio and television traineeship at the Sender Freies Berlin .

From 1985 he worked in various functions at ZDF , initially as an editor in the Lower Saxony state studio in Hanover. In 1989 he moved to the current editorial team at the Mainz headquarters. During this time he completed “set-up assignments” in the new state studio in Dresden and numerous trips as a correspondent to the war region of Yugoslavia .

In 1992 he was transferred to the South-East-Europe-Studio in Vienna. As a correspondent, he spent three years reporting from there on the reorganization of Europe, the disintegration of Yugoslavia forced by war and the peaceful separation of what was then Czechoslovakia , the end of the Eastern Bloc and the transition of the Balkan states to NATO .

After returning to headquarters, he worked as an editor in social and foreign policy. Repeated studio representations and a. in London, Warsaw, Washington, Singapore, Tel Aviv and Cairo from 1996 to 2012. Here mainly concerned with the Intifada , Gaza War , reporting on the Arab Revolution and the armed conflict in Syria .

After returning to headquarters, he worked as an editor in social and foreign policy.

Lichte has been a correspondent at Studio Moscow since 2013. The studio is responsible for reporting from u. a. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

Prices

Media Prize "Children's Rights in One World"

The Second German Television (ZDF) broadcast the documentary "Stolen Life - Romania's Forgotten Children" on February 29, 2000. Bernhard Lichte, as the author, received the media prize “Children's Rights in One World”. In the documentary, Lichte demonstrated that HIV-positive children suffering from AIDS in Romania live and die under inhumane conditions. The report noted that abandoned newborns were still being “nursed” with untested blood donations in the early 1990s. Lichte visited children in a Roma village who were infected by unclean needles during serial vaccinations. The report dealt with the question of why the system after Nicolae Ceaușescu could not cope with the contaminated site alone and what hopes were attached to the status of a candidate for accession to the EU at the time . The jury praised the fact that when the camera was so close, it kept the necessary distance “to give the children their dignity”. The media prize of the Kindernothilfe Foundation honors journalistic contributions that have made an outstanding contribution to raising public awareness of children's rights and, in particular, of children's rights violations in the countries of the South. On November 19, 2001, Christina Rau and Norbert Blüm presented the award at Bellevue Palace .

Works

• Bernhard M. Lichte: The position of the Netherlands in the western defense alliance between 1967 and 1979 . Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Mag.-Arb., 1983
• Bernhard M. Lichte "The way to Lomé II" d. Renegotiations d. Contract between d. ACP states and Europ. Community of Westphalia Wilhelms-Univ., Inst. For Political Science, Development Policy Office, 1980

Web links

• Bernhard-Maria Lichte Correspondent in the ZDF Studio Moscow Website ZDF