Dagmar Berghoff

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Dagmar Berghoff in April 2004

Dagmar Berghoff (born January 25, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German radio and television presenter . Great notoriety she gained the first evening news - spokeswoman .

Professional background

Born in Berlin, Dagmar Berghoff moved with her family to Ahrensburg near Hamburg in 1946 and to Hamburg-Marmstorf in 1957 . She obtained her Abitur in 1962 at the Lyceum at the military cemetery . She then spent a year studying languages in London and Paris , and from 1964 to 1967 she studied acting at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . Then she played a supporting role in Dieter Wedel's multi-parter Once in a Lifetime - Story of a Home . After working for Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden from 1967 to 1976 as a television announcer, radio announcer and presenter, she returned to Hamburg in 1976 and worked for the North German Radio .

On June 16, 1976, she read the ARD's Tagesschau for the first time , it was the 4pm edition. She was the first Tagesschau spokeswoman. After the previous chief spokesman Werner Veigel had to give up his job for health reasons, she was chief spokeswoman for the ARD news program from January 25, 1995 until she retired from television in her last Tagesschau broadcast on December 31, 1999. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of her first appearance on the Tagesschau, Dagmar Berghoff read the news again on June 16, 2016 as part of the Tagesthemen program .

The trained actress, who also appeared in TV series and at the theater during her time with SWF, also presented various music programs during her time as a daily actor, such as the ARD wish concert from 1984 to 1992 and the NDR talk show . She was twice (1980 and 1990) awarded the Bambi of the Burda publishing house and in 1987 with the Golden Camera of the magazine Hörzu .

In 1983 she spoke the cassette Programming made easy - A BASIC introductory course with Dagmar Berghoff . Since then she has lent her voice to several audio book productions. She also worked as a voice actress. In addition, she was the spokesperson for the Philips Annual Chronicle for decades . She was also featured in the AOL jingle "Sie haben Post".

That they for the upcoming mid-1990s car - navigation systems have spoken direction instructions, is not true. However, some navigation systems use the voice of a so-called language database, which is somewhat similar to the voice of Dagmar Berghoff.

In 2013 she was seen in a guest role in the ZDF television series Notruf Hafenkante episode Risky Decision .

In 2019 she was seen in the anniversary program "40 Years NDR Talkshow ".

Miss Tagesschau

As the first spokeswoman for the show, Berghoff was often referred to as “Miss Tagesschau” in the media, as were later speakers.

In 1963 a woman read the news for the first time on GDR television. It was Anne-Rose Neumann on the current camera program . On the west side it was Wibke Bruhns 1971/72 on ZDF , in the late edition of the show today . It may also have been due to her relatively short activity that she was generally not noticed as strongly. Neumann is also among the first news women in German, as well as other television in the world, to be discussed much less often in the media. Berghoff, on the other hand, became something of an institution, and until she left she was the chief spokesperson for the Tagesschau .

When Berghoff applied to be a newscaster, it was - as she says - not only Tagesschau chief spokesman Karl-Heinz Köpcke that women could not speak the news because they knew nothing about politics or sport and would burst into tears when reports of accidents occurred. However, she does not see herself as a feminist, as she described in a “tagesschau.de interview”: “Although I was one of the first news anchors and therefore had a lot of responsibility for this job and for women. If I had failed, only men would have been used as speakers for years. "

She did not pursue the line of Köpcke and the later chief spokesman Werner Veigel of an always emotionless news presentation. In the case of sad reports, she felt it was legitimate, for example by briefly delaying, to allow minimal emotion to resonate. In her opinion, reporting focused on reading the news aloud, without a slight sense of self-concern, prevents an - albeit very brief - emotional connection between the reporter and the people in front of the screens.

She proved extremely reliable as a news anchor. Her laugh-fit slip, however, when she spoke of a toilet tournament instead of the WTC tournament on April 2, 1988 when she reported about tennis player Boris Becker , became a classic when it comes to television breakdowns. On December 31, 1999, Dagmar Berghoff read the Tagesschau news for the last time. She had set herself exactly this date, and the requests of those responsible for the station to continue did not change her decision.

Personal

Berghoff will sign autographs on October 19, 2008 after the premiere of the Disney musical "Tarzan" in Hamburg

In 1961, at the age of 18, Berghoff was in a relationship with the later CDU politician Volker Rühe . She had a relationship with Dieter Wedel for three and a half years. On May 16, 1991 she married the doctor Peter Matthaes, private lecturer at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and chief physician of the surgical department of the Israelite Hospital in Hamburg from 1972 to 1998; In 2001 he died of pancreatic cancer .

Since 1997, Dagmar Berghoff has been the patron of the children's development aid organization terre des hommes . She also moderates some media events and broadcasts on the Hamburg radio program NDR 90.3 . Since 2008 she has also been the sponsor of Thuringia's largest private regional television network , salve.tv , which she supports in its expansion.

Dagmar Berghoff has a congenital malformation of the left hand ( split hand ), two fingers are missing there. As the spokeswoman for the Tagesschau, she covered the hand in question with the speech slip . At the beginning of 2013 she first discussed the malformation publicly.

In 1972 she left the Church.

Awards (selection)

Works

Web links

Commons : Dagmar Berghoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b When "Miss Tagesschau" went on air. NDR, September 6, 2016, accessed October 22, 2016 .
  2. Helms-Museum Aktuell
  3. ^ Dagmar Berghoff in the German synchronous file
  4. Salzburger Nachrichten: Dagmar Berghoff - one of the first news anchors turns 75. Accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  5. What Japan and the GDR had ahead of the world. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  6. Cornelia Wystrichowski: Breaking into the male domain: 40 years ago: Dagmar Berghoff first Tagesschau spokeswoman. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  7. Salzburger Nachrichten: Dagmar Berghoff - one of the first news anchors turns 75. Accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  8. Salzburger Nachrichten: Dagmar Berghoff - one of the first news anchors turns 75. Accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  9. tagesschau.de: Berghoff interview: "I was responsible for women". Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  10. welt-des-wissens.com or tischtennis.tuwa-abteilungen.de ( Memento from September 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. FOCUS Online: With Rühe was just holding hands. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  12. ^ WORLD: "Miss Tagesschau": How Berghoff hid her deformed hand . January 10, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed November 3, 2019]).
  13. NDR: THAT! - Guests on the red sofa. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .