Christian Peschken
Christian Peschken (born June 9, 1955 in Nümbrecht ) is a director , cameraman , film producer and media manager . Today he lives with his wife Patricia in Wisconsin near Lake Michigan .
Childhood and early career
He grew up in Moers on the Lower Rhine and worked as a radio technician at Radio Andernach while he was in the army . From 1974 to 1988 he moderated various programs on Hessischer Rundfunk and on SWF 3 (today SWR ). In 1984 he received a license for private radio broadcasts from the cable communication institute in Ludwigshafen. He then worked for various broadcasters, including as a producer for Radio 4 Rosa Welle (a private broadcaster owned by Blitz Tip Verlag (Frankfurt)), and from 1986 to 1988 as a manager of a film production company.
Hollywood
In 1989 Peschken moved to Hollywood , where he worked as a producer for several low-budget films . In 1997 he produced the US-German coproduction Herzflimmern (for ZDF ) with Maria Furtwängler , Ursula Buschhorn and Carol Campbell, among others . The plot is based on a novel by Barbara Wood . Assignment Berlin (German: Babyhandel in Berlin ), with Paul Winfield and Cliff Robertson , is from the same year , a co-production with Hallmark Fernsehen (USA) and Pro 7 .
Between 2000 and 2003 Peschken worked for several American television stations, including the Christian youth and music station JC-tv , which is part of the Trinity Broadcasting Network Channel .
Conversion and "Christian media engagement"
Through the Trinity Broadcasting Network , he experienced a conversion , but initially without joining a Christian church. The desire to set up a similar television project in Germany grew in him. It was not until the end of 2007 that programs on the Catholic television network EWTN influenced him so much that he joined the Catholic Church with his wife Patricia. Commenting on his motivation, he said, "For me, this was not so much a choice but a necessary consequence based on what I had learned about the origins, teachings and abundance of the Catholic Church."
Since 2004 Peschken has been trying to found a Christian television station in Germany based on his media experience in the USA. He signed a cooperation agreement with Daystar Television Network , a worldwide Christian television network founded by Marcus and Joni Lamb to set up Daystar Television Germany , a German language version of Daystar. Peschken applied for a broadcasting license from the State Center for Media and Communication (LMK). A statement by the KEK (Commission to determine the concentration in the media sector) saw the danger of a religious-promotional program in the style of American tele evangelists. The license was then refused. He founded the company Trinity TV and received a broadcasting license for the Unterföhring site near Munich from the Bavarian State Center for New Media on November 11, 2006 , when cooperation with media partners had already been agreed. During this time he published several open letters on his website, in which he presented the concept of his station, and according to which some programs from the American program of Daystar are said to have been "lip-synched". Due to the requirements of the BLM , which were supposed to prevent a program in the style of American tele-evangelism, Peschken was apparently unable to find donors and sponsors for his ambitious plans. Shortly afterwards, he canceled Daystar's cooperation. Since then, inspired by the teachings of Catholicism , he has been friendly but reluctant to work with Protestant or free church organizations.
Current media exposure
Peschken realigned his television plans and founded Global Faith Television Network Ltd. (GFTN) based in London. The slogan was “We are family”. A new start date in the course of 2009 passed again. Peschken is probably no longer actively pursuing the project, there is only one home page of the earlier websites under the domain www.trinitatv.de, and the company headquarters are now in London. In aligning his station with the Hays Code , he committed himself to a definition for the morally acceptable representation of crime and sexual content in movies and other television formats.
At the beginning of 2009, Peschken produced the radio show [K] a word of mouth with seven episodes. Interlocutors of the show were u. a. Michael Holm and Jürgen Fliege .
Web links
- Christian Peschken at filmportal.de
- Christian Peschken in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- C. Peschken website (last version in the web archive from September 20, 2015)
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- ↑ Christian Peschken in the IMDB Internet film database
- ↑ Brochure from the Faith Center Bad Gandersheim: Circular extra 2006
- ↑ On his personal website ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) no more information can be found and Google no longer provides any current search results under the company name (status: end of December 2009)
- ↑ See www.trinitatv.de , www.archive.org still has individual pages on the GFTN website from February 2008 ( Memento from February 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) and the homepage of Trinita TV in Dresden from November 2007 ( Memento from February 21 , 2008 in the Internet Archive ) November 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ bolgtalkradio.com/herr-peschken . Retrieved January 29, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peschken, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, cameraman, film producer and media manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nümbrecht |