Dieter Gütt

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Dieter Gütt (born February 24, 1924 in Marienwerder ; † January 1990 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and television editor.

Life

Dieter Gütt was born the son of the racial hygienist Arthur Gütt . He took part in the Second World War, studied some medicine, then journalism and journalism at the universities of Berlin, Kiel, Mainz and Cologne. He worked as a newspaper, then as a radio journalist.

Gütt moderated the world mirror and directed from 1977 to 1980, the ARD - Tagesschau and founded at the same station, the issues of the day . In addition, as ARD coordinator for politics and culture, he was responsible for numerous productions of the first program.

In 1980, Hossein Sabet planned to engage him as editor-in-chief or publisher of the West Berliner Zeitung Der Abend , but this failed because of the objection by Westdeutscher Rundfunk .

After retiring from television, he worked from 1983 as deputy editor-in-chief for the news magazine Stern , for which he continued to work as a journalist even after leaving this position. His last article for the star was an obituary for Herbert Wehner , which appeared on January 25, 1990.

On January 28, 1990, Gütt was found dead in his Hamburg apartment. He had suicide committed after he had completed the obituary Wehner on 24 January. An exact date of death is not known.

Gütts former Stern colleague Hans-Heinrich Ziemann wrote and directed a semi-documentary television film with the title Gütt for NDR in 1990, together with the director and author Horst Königstein . A journalist . It came as a contemporary witness u. a. Joachim C. Fest had a say about him, and in some scenes the actor Traugott Buhre was seen in the role of Dieter Gütt alongside Rita Tushingham and Matthias Freihof .

His brother was the sports official Friedel Gütt .

Publications

  • Dieter Gütt spoke: Comments on current affairs. Desch, Munich 1969.
  • as editor: choose - but who? Writer about Germany before the election. Stern book published by Gruner und Jahr, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-570-01238-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Last poison , SPIEGEL, January 26, 1981
  2. ↑ Birgit Lahann : About the times . In: the Friday of December 25, 2014; accessed on December 8, 2017
  3. ^ Information from the Spiegel dated February 5, 1990; after that, the days of death from January 22 to 28, 1990 come into question.
personal data
SURNAME Gütt, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH January 1990
Place of death Hamburg