Dietmar Barsig

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Dietmar Barsig in the summer of 2006 as ZDF correspondent in Warsaw

Dietmar Barsig (born July 2, 1951 in Hanover ; † January 31, 2011 ) was a German journalist and correspondent for ZDF .

Life

Dietmar Barsig graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich from 1971 to 1972 . He then studied journalism and history at the University of Minnesota in the USA from 1974 to 1978 .

Dietmar Barsig has been with ZDF since 1979. He began his journalistic career in the editorial office of heute news . In 1981 he became an editor at the ZDF regional studio in Baden-Württemberg . After an interim position as assistant to the ZDF editor-in-chief Reinhard Appel , Barsig switched to the political magazine Kennzeichen D in 1988 .

From 1990 to 1995 Barsig initially worked as an editor in the Schleswig-Holstein state studio . In 1995 he took over the management of the studio. As part of his work, Barsig was also responsible for reporting from Scandinavia and the Baltic states . From 2002 until his health-related resignation in December 2010, Barsig was head of the ZDF studio in Warsaw . He continued to oversee the reporting area of ​​the Baltic States from there.

In recognition of his coverage of the Lithuanian independence movement, Barsig was awarded the Lithuanian Order of Merit January 13, 1992 .

Dietmar Barsig was the older of the two sons of the former director of the broadcaster Free Berlin and journalist Franz Barsig .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Website ZDF.de from December 15, 2007 ( Memento from December 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Obituaries on Family Ads.genealogy.net; Retrieved March 24, 2013
  3. ↑ Teaching editorial staff 1971 - 1972 on djs-online; Retrieved November 7, 2016
  4. ↑ Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier Das Fernsehlexikon . All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade. Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-30124-9 , pp. 643-644; The television lexicon online at fernsehserien.de; Retrieved April 1, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Barsig, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and correspondent for ZDF
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2011