Claus-Erich Boetzkes

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Claus-Erich Boetzkes (born March 29, 1956 in Memmingen ) is a German television presenter and journalist .

Life

Claus-Erich Boetzkes studied communication science , political science , sociology and economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2007 he did his doctorate at the TU Ilmenau on the subject of organization as a news factor . Today he is also a lecturer at this university. Due to his teaching activities and his academic achievements, he was appointed honorary professor in 2011 . There he researches, among other things, with the help of eye tracking technologyabout the retention and understanding performance of viewers of TV news. In 2019, he published a study on the effect of background images on the Tagesschau, which sometimes distracts considerably from the content. In addition, Boetzkes teaches an English-language elective module on fake news at the Faculty of Economics and Media at the TU Ilmenau.

Boetzkes completed his professional and practical training at the German School of Journalism in Munich . While still a student, he was a freelancer for the Munich evening newspaper . From 1980 he worked as an author and moderator for the science department of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . He received the Kurt Magnus Prize for a radio report about a kidney transplant . He later moderated the political talk show Espresso on MDR and the ARD midday magazine, among other things .

In 1983 the BR-Hörfunk hired him as an editor in the economic department. Two years later he became head of music and, in 1989, head of entertainment. Together with the pop singer Nicole he commented on the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1988 . During his tenure, there were serious upheavals in radio as private program providers came onto the market. In response, Boetzkes introduced today's standard format radio and computer-aided music selection . From 1990 to 1992 he was the sole responsible program director at Bayern 3 , having previously been program director for the weekend and Thomas Gottschalk program director during the week.

After switching to television, Boetzkes went to ARD-aktuell in Hamburg for Bayerischer Rundfunk . There he presented the newly introduced night magazine on ARD from 1995 to 1997 . From 1997 to 2021 he presented the newly created moderated Tagesschau issues in the afternoon, since 2001 in weekly rotation with his colleague Susanne Holst . On September 11, 2001, he hosted the first Tagesschau broadcasts including the 8 p.m. edition after the terrorist attacks in New York . On October 7, 2001, he also moderated the 8 p.m. edition of the Tagesschau. Boetzkes ended his professional career at Tagesschau on December 30, 2021. Susanne Stichler and Michail Paweletz share his successor .

He also moderated editions of the consumer program “Without Guarantee” together with Anka Zink and Philipp Sonntag. Before that, the Bayern quiz "Bayern wins" for some time.

Boetzkes is married for the second time and has three children and two granddaughters. He lives in Hamburg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine - special edition campus TU Ilmenau: Doctorate from the TU. October 10, 2007, p. 1.
  2. ^ "Professor Tagesschau" - Claus-Erich Boetzkes becomes honorary professor at the TU Ilmenau. tu-ilmenau.de, October 25, 2011
  3. ↑ Claus-Erich Boetzkes: TV newscasts. The impact of studio background photos, headlines and camera angles on viewers' information processing. In: media production. No. 13, 2019, online , accessed June 28, 2019
  4. ↑ Swindler, liar, storyteller. Journalism in the post truth era - module panels of the TU Ilmenau.
  5. ↑ Tagesschau internal: → Moderators → Tagesschau → Boetzkes
  6. ↑ Claus-Erich Boetzkes stays with the Tagesschau - ARD extends contract. In: ARD.de. April 20, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ ARD-aktuell broadcasts in the new design: "Back to the roots". In: time online. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Two new ones in the afternoon. tagesschau.de, September 22, 2021
  9. ↑ Susanne Holst new Tagesschau presenter - successor to Ina Bergmann. April 4, 2001, Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
  10. ^ Stephan Weichert : The crisis as a media event. About September 11th on German television. Halem, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-938258-21-7 , p. 368 ff.
  11. ↑ Solid as a rock goes - bye, dear Claus-Erich Boetzkes. Tageschau blog, December 30, 2021, accessed on the same day.
  12. ↑ After 24 years: “Tagesschau” spokesman Claus-Erich Boetzkes stops. RND , September 23, 2021, accessed December 30, 2021.
  13. ↑ Gang breaks in at the "Tagesschau" spokesperson. In: sueddeutsche.de. December 16, 2010, accessed January 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Boetzkes, Claus-Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter and journalist
BIRTH DATE March 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen