Dieter Jepsen-Föge

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Dieter Jepsen-Föge (born March 2, 1944 in Flensburg ) is a German journalist. For several years he was editor-in-chief at Deutschlandradio .

Life

Jepsen-Föge passed the Abitur examination at the North Sea High School in Sankt Peter in 1965 . He then worked from April 1965 to September 1966, initially as a trainee, then until September 1967 as an editor at Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . He then began studying political science, which took him to the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin and Duke University in the United States, and which he completed in the 1971 summer semester with a degree in political science. Jepsen-Vöge has been married since 1969. He has three children with his wife.

Journalistic work

He began his journalistic career in radio in December 1971 as editor of the Tagesschau . In October 1973 he moved to Deutsche Welle , where he was initially deputy head of the political magazine Funkjournal and then took on the same function for the politics department. From 1978 to 1983 was the station's correspondent in its Bonn studio. He then took over the management of the radio journal and then, until November 1989, was in charge of the politics / economics department.

In December 1989 he switched to Deutschlandfunk for the first time . There he took over the management of the news department until June 1991 and was deputy editor-in-chief of the station. In July 1991 he switched to the daily press; he became deputy editor-in-chief and then, together with another colleague, editor-in-chief of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Halle an der Saale . In September 1993 he returned to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and was editor-in-chief there until January 1997.

In February 1997 he moved to the newly structured DeutschlandRadio Berlin, where he was initially head of the news and current affairs department and deputy editor-in-chief, then from June 1998 after Willi Steul became editor-in-chief of Deutschlandradio Kultur . In March 2006 he succeeded Rainer Burchardt as editor-in-chief of Deutschlandfunk, and Peter Lange succeeded him on January 1, 2007 at Deutschlandradio Kultur . In June 2008 Jepsen-Föge retired and Stephan Detjen became his successor as editor-in-chief of Deutschlandfunk .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Change in the editors-in-chief of Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , News on June 23, 2006 in: Chronik 2006 , from: ARD-Jahrbuch 07 , p. 181, online at ard.de, viewed October 4, 2010 (PDF; 2.7 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ard.de
personal data
SURNAME Jepsen-Föge, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg