Carl Michael Belcredi
Carl Michael Belcredi (born June 3, 1939 in Brno , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , now the Czech Republic ) is a former Austrian journalist and reporter. He became known nationwide through television.
Life
Carl Michael Belcredi is a member of the former Belcredi family of counts . He is a great-grandson of Richard Belcredi , 1865–1867 Austrian Prime Minister. After the communists came to power, his family fled from Moravia to Vorarlberg. He attended the Stella Matutina Jesuit high school in Vorarlberg . Belcredi has lived in Vienna since he was 18. After dropping the study of journalism, he began professionally in Vienna in 1960 as a reporter in the later ORF -Generalintendanten Gerd Bacher led daily newspaper Express and shortly also in the Austria-editors of the German magazine Stern to work. At the same time, he completed more than 10,000 flight hours as a professional pilot.
In 1967 he switched to ORF, where he initially worked as a chronicle employee, then as the first war correspondent . In 1973 he was a co-founder and presenter of the TV program Wir, which was produced by ORF's regional studio in Vienna .
In 1980/81 he worked with Leopold Kletter to prepare the first independent weather department in the German-speaking area, which has been producing daily journalistic weather reports for the first and second TV programs on ORF since 1982. Belcredi headed ORF Wetter , which was initially moderated by Johannes Czernin in addition to him and Kletter and later joined by other moderators such as Isabella Krassnitzer , his successor as department head, until 1999. Through his almost daily screen presence both as a weather presenter and as Presenter of the weekday afternoon consumer and life support program Wir (forerunner of the Welcome Austria magazine block ), he became known and loved across the country.
Belcredi appeared on June 30, 1999 for the last time as a weather presenter.
He lived with his wife Claudia, born in 2012 at the age of 70. Bujas, in Vienna in a multi-storey old house that she restored. His hobbies include aerobatics , ballooning , golf , ice hockey and round dancing on the ice .
Fonts
- Jaro skyscraper. Biography. ibera, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85052-282-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report on Vorarlberg online from July 2, 1999.
- ^ Website of the daily newspaper Der Standard June 11, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belcredi, Carl Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist and reporter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno , Austria |