Dietrich Schwarzkopf

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Dietrich Schwarzkopf (born April 4, 1927 in Stolp , Pomerania ; † January 21, 2020 in Starnberg ) was a German journalist , media politician, university professor and author . He was program director of NDR and German television .

Life

Dietrich Schwarzkopf, son of a Pomeranian veterinarian , went to school in Potsdam , Babelsberg , Berlin-Wilmersdorf and Cottbus ( high school diploma ). After the end of the war he worked as a trainee in the Prussian Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem, and from 1946 to 1950 as an archivist at the Berliner Tagesspiegel . From 1948 to 1954 he studied law at the Free University of Berlin up to the first state examination in law . Schwarzkopf interrupted his studies in Berlin for a year to study political science and newspaper science at the University of Minnesota (USA).

Schwarzkopf's career began in the print media sector. Even before finishing his studies, from 1952, he worked as an editor for the Tagesspiegel in Berlin. In 1955 he became a Bonn correspondent for the Tagesspiegel , later also for other newspapers, and took on tasks for radio stations, especially at NDR and WDR. From 1962 to 1966 he was head of the Bonn office of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne.

In 1966 he became program director for television at Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( NDR ) in Hamburg , and in 1974 deputy director. On July 1, 1978, the directors of ARD appointed him to succeed Hans Abich as program director for German television based in Munich. He held this office until he retired in 1992.

During his active time as program director of the ARD community program, which has been known as Erste Deutsches Fernsehen since 1984, Schwarzkopf was also a popular and well-known interview partner, media commentator, participant in specialist conferences, debate speaker, teacher and organizer. From 1979 to 2009 he was chairman of the board of directors of the German School of Journalism in Munich. From 1984 to 1990 he was a Senator of the Max Planck Society . On April 30, 1991 he became vice president of the cultural channel ARTE . From 1992 to 2010 he headed the ARD's historical commission .

He was also Chairman of the Board at Europa-TV in Hilversum (1985/1986), ARD coordinator for church broadcasts, chairman of the ARD-aktuell commission and ARD representative in the television program commission of the European Broadcasting Union . He was a member of the Board of Trustees at the Adolf Grimme Institute and the Adolf Grimme Prize , member of the ARD / ZDF coordination committee and member of the International Council, from 1996 of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New York.

After his retirement in 1992, Schwarzkopf, as an expert on the media scene, remained a sought-after participant in panel discussions and specialist conferences. A large number of publications show him to be an experienced radio specialist and successful author. He died in January 2020 at the age of 92.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Opportunities for Germany (with Olaf von Wrangel ), Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1964
  • Atomic power - politics and international law in the nuclear age , Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1969 Ed .: Broadcasting policy in Germany. 2 volumes, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1999
  • Between claim and acceptance . Public broadcasting in transition. Contributions from thirty years. LIT Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-8258-0027-X
  • The ZEIT world and cultural history in 20 volumes. Volume 5: Late Antiquity and the Migration Period by Dietrich Schwarzkopf, Bettina Gartner, Manfred Clauss
  • Numerous articles on media policy issues in compilations and specialist journals

literature

  • Edgar Lersch: Obituary: Dietrich Schwarzkopf 1927–2020 . In: Rundfunk und Geschichte 46 (2020), 1–2, pp. 106–109.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: Dietrich Schwarzkopf is dead. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 23, 2020, accessed January 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Mercedes Riederer: Obituary for Dietrich Schwarzkopf. German School of Journalism, January 23, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzkopf, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, media politician, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolp , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2020
Place of death Starnberg