Claudio Surland

Claudio Surland (born July 3, 1942 in Hagen as Klaus-Jürgen Hannappel ; pseudonym as a journalist also Joe or Joao Brix ) is a speaker i. R., who was active in the ZDF television program today .

Life and work

From 1961 to 1962 Surland completed a traineeship at the Westfalenpost and gained initial experience in the editorial field. In March 1964 Surland (still under the name Hannappel) was the youngest announcer and news anchor at WDR in Cologne. He took acting and singing lessons and worked as a spokesperson for Südfunk Stuttgart and from 1970 under Helmut Hansen for HR as a speaker and announcer. He moderated u. a. in Teens, Twens, Top-Time , Fred Metzler represented in tryst on music and was active in film dubbing for HR television. In addition to his speaking activities, Surland has also worked as a journalist and copywriter.

In 1971 a record by the composer Willibald Quanz was released, where Surland can be heard as a singer with the title We are all not so good and Wir sind räderdoll . In 1972 he took fourth place at the final of the carnival hit parade , live on WDR . From 1972 to 1973 he worked as an actor and assistant director at the “Theater am Dom” in Cologne.

In 1973 Surland followed his wife to São Paulo . There he worked, among other things, as editor of the Brasil-Post , the largest German-language weekly newspaper in Brazil, as an actor and as a solo and choir singer and was also employed as the South American correspondent for the press agencies SID and ISK ( Internationale Sport-Korrespondenz ). His work has been published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Welt am Sonntag and in Kicker . He served the broadcasters ORF , HR and WDR with telephone reports and reported three times a week live from São Paulo to NDR in the broadcasts to Hamburg. In 1979 he went back to Germany and continued to work as a journalist, translator and spokesman for the NDR. From the HR studios he delivered reports to the Saarländischer Rundfunk for the programs Mittagsmagazin , Zwischen heute und Morgen , a magazine for cultural, social and cultural topics on the Europawelle. He moderated medium-wave advertising on HR radio . SWF chief spokesman Rolf Klein appointed him as head of duty and speaker at the SWF radio studio in Mainz. He also dubbed films again for the Hessenschau as well as for titles, theses, temperaments . In May 1979 he was published together with other authors such as u. a. Gerhard Zwerenz , Walter E. Richartz and Peter Härtling , invited by the Hessen State Association of the Association of German Writers , in the great hall of the Schauspiel Frankfurt, texts by the authors Johannes R. Becher , Egon Erwin Kisch , Erich Kästner , Kurt Tucholsky , whose works were at the stake in 1933 the Nazis burned to read.

In July 1980 Surland got a position as head of the service and spokesman at Saarländischer Rundfunk. From May 1981 he was used in the news on television in the program Current Report . At NDR in October 1985 he was - alongside chief spokesman Achim Gertz - first news spokesman for the regional magazine Hallo Niedersachsen . In September 1979 Surland first worked as a spokesman for ZDF and from 1989 onwards was an integral part (on / off) of the heute program . When Heinz Wrobels retired in 1991, Surland was given a post at ZDF and in 1998 he was given the role of spokesperson for the press review . In 2007 Surland retired, but continues to write. He is also a member of the working group for the German language , which campaigns against the spelling reform.

Web links

• http://www.e-stories.de/view-autoren.phtml?csurl
• http://claudiosphere.wordpress.com/
• http://www.fernsehserien.de/claudio-surland/person

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard von Harscher: Spelling reform - not like that! Open letter to our ministers of education . AfDS (Working Group for German Language eV), Hamburg 2002.