Christoph Lanz

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Christoph Lanz in Berlin, 2018.

Christoph Lanz (* 1959 in Darmstadt ) is a German journalist and media consultant. He is a trustee of the Thomson Foundation, UK and is Head of the Board of Thomson Media Germany, gGmbH .
Lance is a member of the advisory board of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium in Potsdam and Vice Chairman of the Foundation Berlin Wall Memorial Berlin .

Life

Lanz volunteered at the Darmstädter Echo from 1979 to 1981. After completing his training, he began his journalistic career for Südwestfunk ( SWF 3 ) as a reporter and editor in Baden-Baden. In 1984 he went to New York , where he worked as a freelance radio correspondent for ARD and RTL . He then worked for RIAS 2 in Berlin from 1985 to 1989 , first as head of duty , then as deputy program manager. In 1987, Lanz co-organized the RIAS 2 radio broadcast and hosted the “Concert for Berlin” at the Reichstag . In the course of this three-day concert in East Berlin around the Brandenburg Gate there were clashes between East German youths and the GDR People's Police with hundreds of arrests. For the first time there were calls like "Gorbi, Gorbi" and "The wall must go!"   

In 1989, Lanz moved to the commercial radio FFH in Frankfurt , where he worked for a year as deputy program director and editor-in-chief . During this time Radio FFH also took over the market leadership in the Hessian radio market.

In 1990 Lanz returned to RIAS , this time as a presenter on RIAS TV . In March 1992, at the age of 31, he became the station's editor-in-chief. After the political upheavals in Germany and the subsequent dissolution of RIAS TV, Deutsche Welle took over the studios and facilities of RIAS TV in Berlin and started DW-TV . Lanz also remained in the position of editor-in-chief at DW-TV and helped shape the early years of international television. In 1998 he was responsible for the relaunch of DW-TV into a news, information and culture channel.

From 2002 to early 2012 he was television director, then global multimedia director at Deutsche Welle. In this capacity, he was also responsible for Deutsche Welle's current internet and social media presence. In 2002, Christoph Lanz introduced Deutsche Welle's Arabic TV program. Also in 2002 he started a TV news service for Afghanistan in the national languages Dari and Pashto . In February 2012, Lanz was responsible for the realignment of Deutsche Welle television with a total of six channels in different languages.

In 2006 Christoph Lanz interviewed Pope Benedikt XVI with Gerhard Fuchs from Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) , Thomas Bellut for ZDF and with Eberhard von Gemmingen SJ from Vatican Radio . , in the Pope's summer residence in Castel Gandolfo . It is the first interview of its kind with a Pope to date.

In 2010, Christoph Lanz and Max Hofmann won the RIAS Prize in the New Media category for the animation “Bred in!”.

Lanz worked as a lecturer at various universities:

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomson Foundation Trustees .
  2. ^ Thomson Media - Berlin Beginnings .
  3. ↑ Thomson Media GmbH .
  4. ↑ Christoph Lanz on the M100 website .
  5. ^ Website of the friends' association .
  6. ↑ Article by Jörg Wagner about the Concert for Berlin and the unrest in East Berlin connected with it .
  7. ^ BBC World Service radio report on the Concert for Berlin (in English) .
  8. ↑ Article by Peter Wensierski about the unrest in East Berlin and the reactions of the GDR .
  9. ^ David Bowie in Berlin. Accessed December 11, 2019 (video on Youtube).
  10. ↑ Article by Marcel Rosenbach about Deutsche Welle's TV offer in Afghanistan .
  11. ↑ Deutsche Welle press release on the realignment, February 2012 .
  12. ↑ Wikinew's article on audience ratings for the Pope interview .
  13. ↑ Pope interview on Youtube .
  14. ↑ RIAS award ceremony 2010 .
  15. ↑ Walled in! Accessed February 3, 2019 (video on Youtube).
personal data
SURNAME Lanz, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt