Dieter Stolte

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Dieter Stolte (born September 18, 1934 in Cologne ) is a German journalist and former television manager. From 1982 to 2002 he was director of the Second German Television (ZDF). From 2002 to February 2010 he was editor of the newspapers Die Welt and Berliner Morgenpost . Until June 2014 he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ströer Media SE .

Life

Dieter Stolte spent his early youth in Cologne, Berlin , Saarbrücken , Gößnitz and Meerane . After graduating from the Gauß-Gymnasium in Worms , he studied philosophy , history and German in Tübingen and Mainz from 1955 to 1961 . In Tübingen , Stolte became a member of the KStV Alamannia in KV . He earned his studies as a freelance journalist for the radio and thus came into contact with the radio media for the first time.

Dieter Stolte is married and has one daughter.

Functions

After completing his studies, Stolte began working at Saarland Broadcasting in 1961 as head of the science department. In 1962 he went to the newly founded ZDF and became the personal assistant to the artistic director Karl Holzamer . From this position he started his career at ZDF, from head of program planning (until 1973), program director (from 1977) to director of the station (March 15, 1982 to March 14, 2002). Between 1973 and 1976 he was briefly television director at Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden , but came back to ZDF as program director in 1976 before the station moved to the new broadcasting center in Mainz-Lerchenberg . In 1975 Stolte ran for the office of WDR manager, but was defeated by Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sell .

Since 1980 Dieter Stolte has been Professor of Media Theory and Media Practice at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . He was on the supervisory board of Loremo AG. Since April 2006 he has been chairman of the museum association of the German Historical Museum in Berlin and a member of the board of the Axel Springer Foundation . Since March 2010 he has been chairman of the editorial board of the private broadcaster radio B2 . From August 2011 he was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ströer Out-of-Home Media AG; after his term of office expired in June 2014, Stolte did not stand for re-election. Among other things, he is culturally and socially committed as a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection and as a member of the German Cancer Aid .

successes

Starting in 1977, with preparations for the station's move from the second provisional facility of the founding period at Taunusfilm in Wiesbaden to the new buildings in Mainz-Lerchenberg, with noticeable success, Stolte led to an independent program structure. From January 1, 1978, this included the heute-journal . This second evening edition of the heute program, which was redesigned as a magazine, was launched together with the ARD Tagesthemen. The heute-journal got its own editorial team and was also moderated by its own studio editors.

During his twenty-year tenure, he also created the culture channel 3sat, founded in 1984, in co-production with the Austrian ORF and the Swiss SRG SSR , to which later, as a supplement and with a similar objective, the joint cooperation of ZDF and the regional broadcasting corporations of ARD in ARTE with broadcasting companies in 1992 The French Republic (shareholder structure France Télévisions at 45%, the State of France at 25%, Radio France at 15% and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) at 15%).

Act

Stolte's work as director of the program was not particularly noticeable. An exception was the satirical magazine Notes from the Province , which initially changed its name in 1979 and was discontinued in 1980 on the advice of Stolte by the artistic director Karl-Günther von Hase : Notes from the Province was no longer continued after 66 episodes. Stolte was assumed to want to secure his election as artistic director of ZDF in 1980 with the decision . It was not until 2007 that this program segment on ZDF was filled again with the program Neues aus der Anstalt .

In April 2008, Stolte was noticed by some media as anti-gay comment: “Most are normal, and that's a good thing”.

Awards and honors

Others

The question of who should be Stolte's successor as ZDF director was long fought within the ZDF television council, which was divided into two party-political camps . In the course of the dispute, it was criticized how politically determined the ZDF television council was. Stolte himself described the long dispute as "improper and harmful". Only in the fifth ballot did a candidate achieve the required majority of three fifths of the votes; Markus Schächter was elected.

From 1996 to 2003, Stolte was a member of the supervisory and control bodies of the non-profit Bertelsmann Foundation .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Stolte: My life with the ZDF ; P. 210
  2. ^ Dieter Stolte: My life with the ZDF ; Pp. 45-46.
  3. ↑ Ströer appoints new chairman of the supervisory board , press release of August 16, 2011
  4. ↑ Press release on the election of the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board Christoph Vilanek from June 18, 2014
  5. ↑ Stolte: My life with the ZDF ; Pp. 67-68
  6. ^ Notes from the Province . on: wunschliste.de; from: Das Fernsehlexikon , accessed on August 13, 2015.
  7. ↑ Dieter Stolte: Comment: Most are normal, and that's a good thing . Welt Online , April 12, 2008.
  8. ^ Institute for Journalism: Chronicle . ( Memento from June 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Institute for Journalism at the University of Mainz, as of June 14, 2008; accessed on August 13, 2015.
  9. ↑ Marcel Rosenbach: ZDF: Der Intendanten-Stadl . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 2001 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Joachim Huber: Miracles from Lerchenberg . Der Tagesspiegel , March 11, 2002, accessed on February 2, 2011.
    Marcel Rosenbach: ZDF: I am often underestimated . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 2002, p. 118-120 ( online ).
  11. ↑ Chronicle. Bertelsmann Stiftung, accessed on May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stolte, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and former ZDF director
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne