Claus Richter (journalist)

Claus Richter

Claus Richter (born November 4, 1948 in Straubing ) is a German journalist. From 2001 to 2014 he was the editor-in-chief of the ZDF political magazine Frontal21 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Düren and doing military service, Richter studied politics, economics and German at the universities of Bonn , Heidelberg and Mannheim . From 1973 Richter worked as a freelancer for WDR radio and television, in particular for the editorial team of the ARD political magazine Monitor . In 1974 Richter passed his state examination in Bonn. 1976 followed a doctorate to Dr. phil. with a work on the revolution of 1848 and German liberalism , also in Bonn. From 1976 to 1981 Richter worked as a permanent editor for Monitor . From 1981 to 1984 he was ARD correspondent and studio manager in Warsaw , 1984 to 1987 ARD correspondent and studio manager in New York and 1987 to 1991 ARD correspondent and studio manager in East Berlin . From 1991 to 1997 Richter was ZDF correspondent and studio manager for Southeast Asia in Singapore and from 1997/1998 ZDF correspondent and studio manager in Moscow .

From May 1, 1998 to December 31, 2000, Richter was ZDF's chief reporter and, in addition to current reports, also shot documentaries such as Amazon Adventure , The New Silk Road and The Battle for Caspian Oil .

From January 1, 2001 to January 31, 2014 he was editor-in-chief of the ZDF political magazine Frontal21 . Since 2002 he has been a freelance lecturer at the ems Electronic Media School in Babelsberg and since March 2014 professor of television journalism at the University of Television and Film Munich .

Filmography

• 1993: Gods, gurus and crooks - from the gold city of Bombay
• 1994: We have to forget about the war
• 1994: War in Paradise
• 1995: Under the sign of the skull - pirates in the Far East
• 1995: Alluring South Seas - Under the spell of the great fire / Of gods and idols in Polynesia
• 1997: Hong Kong crime scene - smuggling boom before the change of power
• 1998: Men Who Went Out in the Cold
• 1998: In the intoxication of black gold
• 1999: The new Silk Road
• 1999: To die in Kosovo
• 2000: Amazon Adventure
• 2005: with Stefan Aust : 3-part documentary case Germany
• 2006/2007: with Stefan Aust: 3-part documentation Globalization - Race around the world
• 2009: with Stefan Aust: Documentation Race around the world - departure from the crisis
• 2009: with Ulf-Jensen Röller : Documentation candidate Steinmeier
• 2009: with Stefan Aust : Documentation Resurrected from Ruins - From the SED to the Left Party
• 2010: with Ulf-Jensen Röller: Documentation double portrait Wulff-Gauck

Prizes and awards

• 1984: Eduard Rhein Prize for reporting from Poland
• 1988: Jakob Kaiser Prize for GDR reporting
• 1990: Bavarian TV Prize (for ARD Studio GDR)
• 1995: ICHR (International Center for Humanitarian Reporting) TV award for war reporting in Afghanistan
• 2005: German television award for Fall Deutschland
• 2005: German Business Film Prize for Fall Deutschland
• 2005: Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Prize for Fall Germany
• 2006: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for Frontal21
• 2007: Golden camera for Frontal21
• 2007: German business film award for the race around the world
• 2008: Ernst Schneider Prize of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce for the race around the world

Fonts

• (Ed.): Suffering from society. Koenigstein / Ts. 1976.
• (Ed.): The superfluous generation. Youth between apathy and aggression. Koenigstein / Ts. 1979.
• The silk road. Hamburg 1999.
• Case of Germany. Hamburg 2005.
• Race around the world. Hamburg 2007.

Memberships

Richter is the chairman of the association for the presentation of the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis eV

Web links

• Literature by and about Claus Richter in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ems-babelsberg.de/de/component/content/article/23-trainer/255-claus-richter.html
2. ↑ http://www.hanns-joachim-friedrichs.de/index.php/vorstand.html