Dieter Zimmer (journalist)

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Dieter Zimmer (born December 19, 1939 in Leipzig ) is a German television journalist and writer .

Career

education

Zimmer grew up in Leipzig (Gohlis) and attended school there. He no longer consciously met his father, a police officer. He was imprisoned in a German penal camp in 1941, possibly on the pretext of political unreliability, transferred to northern Norway and died there in 1942 at the age of 36. In 1953, when Dieter Zimmer was 13 years old, his mother fled with him to West Berlin, which was still open at the time . From there they were both flown to a refugee camp in the southwest of the Federal Republic and subsequently taken in by acquaintances in Baden-Baden . There Zimmer attended the Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium . Later he moved to Hanover , where Zimmer graduated from the Goethe School . He then did his military service.

Between 1961 and 1967 studied rooms at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg , the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Muenster and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , the Subjects journalism , political science and history . During the semester break, Zimmer earned the money he needed to finance his studies at Continental and Volkswagen , at the Theater der Jugend in Munich and as a taxi driver.

Professional development

Südwestfunk

After completing his studies, Zimmer was an intern at the SWF in 1968 , from which his later work as a television reporter developed, for regional topics, contributions in the daily news and as a presenter of the Stuttgart evening news.

ZDF

In 1972, Zimmer switched to ZDF , where he initially worked as a reporter and host for the turntable . In 1973 he became the studio editor of the heute news at 7 p.m. In 1978 he moved to the main editorial office for domestic affairs and was involved in film reports and documentaries on contemporary German history, especially the GDR. He provided live reports on important events such as Helmut Schmidt's visits to the GDR (December 1981) at the Werbellinsee and Güstrow , Ronald Reagan in Berlin (June 1987), Erich Honecker (September 1987) and Michail Gorbatschow in Bonn (June 1989).

From 1981 to 1999 Zimmer presented projections and analyzes in the ZDF election studio, from 1984 to 1989 he hosted the ZDF “Sunday Talk”, and from 1984 to 2002 he was in charge of the documentation and reportage editorial team. He was responsible for domestic political issues and, among other things, for programs in the series “Die ZDF-Reportage”, “Die ZDF-Documentation” and “Ganz Personal”. In 1989, a stroke tore him out of his professional and private life, an experience that he later processed in a book. From 1994 to 2010, Zimmer was the moderator of the series “Leipzig Conversations” at the Gewandhaus Leipzig . In 2002 he left ZDF.

“ Dieter Zimmer was always a reporter who kept his distance from the people and topics in his work, but precisely because of this he captured them clearly and understandably. Dieter Zimmer's instinct for important things, his unmistakable feeling for stories will be missing in the ZDF documentaries and reports in the future. "

- Nikolaus Brender , ZDF editor-in-chief, April 30, 2002

writer

From 1980, Zimmer also worked as an author. Some of his novels and non-fiction books are colored autobiographically. His debut "Für'n Groschen Brause", which deals with his childhood in Leipzig in the post-war period and the circumstances of his escape from the GDR, was made into a film for television in 1983, and in 1994/95 his book "Kalifornisches Quartett" was also published as a three-part series Watch TV. His place of birth, Leipzig, was the linchpin of many considerations for Zimmer, for example in the non-fiction books "My Leipzig - praise me?" And "Leipzig - Phoenix from a lot of ashes", which were based on his ZDF television reports of the same name from 1980 and 1991 were.

Awards

Zimmer was awarded the Jakob Kaiser Prize in 1984 for the film adaptation of his book or screenplay for “Für'n Groschen Brause” and in 1988 the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for phantom fever (together with Hartmut Schoen and Carl-Franz Hutterer ) excellent.

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

  • My Leipzig - do I praise it? Owls Publishing House. Freiburg (Brsg.) 1984. ISBN 3-89102-201-8 .
  • When man becomes a father . Hawks. Niedernhausen 1986. ISBN 3-404-11281-4 . New title: Become a father - be a father . Luebbe. Bergisch Gladbach 1999. ISBN 3-8068-4259-0 .
  • with Carl-Ludwig Paeschke: Risen from the ruins . German publishing company. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-421-06516-0 .
  • (Ed.): My Saxony . Straube. Erlangen, Bonn, Vienna 1990. ISBN 3-927491-23-3 .
  • Leipzig - a phoenix from a lot of ashes . Owls. Munich 1991. ISBN 3-89102-230-1 .
  • with Carl-Ludwig Paeschke (ed.): The gate . German publishing company. Munich 1991. ISBN 3-421-06601-9 .
  • (Ed.): Dramatic moments . Econ. Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-421-06637-X .
  • with Carl-Ludwig Paeschke: Dresden - Stories of a City . Brandenburg publishing house. Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-89488-074-0 .
  • The yellow card . Luebbe. Bergisch Gladbach 1996. ISBN 3-404-61361-9 .
  • (Ed.): Germany's First Ladies . German publishing company. Munich 1998. ISBN 3-421-05125-9 .
  • All sorts of German: memories of a strange homeland . Hohenheim. Stuttgart, Leipzig 2003. ISBN 3-89850-087-X .

Other publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on: goethe.de
  2. ^ "1000 Years of Leipzig", Peter Schwartz, Volume 3
  3. ^ Visit to Hans In: Die Tageszeitung, May 7, 2005
  4. ↑ Stroke: And it cracked  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: rp-online.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  5. ↑ Leipzig conversation with Dieter Zimmer and Bernd Hilder ( Memento from February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on: leipzig.de
  6. ^ ZDF journalist Dieter Zimmer is retiring on: presseportal.de
  7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: My Leipzig - Praise me? at: phoenix.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.phoenix.de
  8. ↑ Excerpts from “The Wedding Photo ” on: goethe.de
  9. ↑ Dieter Zimmer and the yellow card ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 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. on: reha-klinik.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reha-klinik.de
personal data
SURNAME Zimmer, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig