Dirk Sager

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Dirk Sager (born August 13, 1940 in Hamburg ; † January 2, 2014 in Potsdam ) was a German journalist .

Life

Dirk Sager grew up in Neumünster (Schleswig-Holstein). There he attended the garden school (elementary school) and then switched to the Holsten school (grammar school) after the 4th grade. Later he was a student of the Marienau State Education Home in Dahlem- Marienau. From there he went to the Stockbridge School in Massachusetts (USA) for one year as an exchange student in the school year 1958/59 .

After graduating from high school in Marienau in 1961, Sager studied American studies, political science and journalism at the Free University of Berlin from 1962 to 1968 . He began his journalistic career after traineeships and freelance journalistic activities (e.g. at Radio Bremen ) in 1966 as an editor at RIAS Berlin, where he worked until 1968. Dirk Sager has worked for ZDF since 1968 .

Dirk Sager u. a. Correspondent in East Berlin , Moscow and Washington, DC From 1984 to 1990 he headed the editorial staff of the political magazine registration D . From 1990 to March 2004, apart from a one-year break as head of the ZDF-Studios Brandenburg, he was head of the ZDF- Studios in Moscow (see Russia reporting in Germany ) and since then has mainly done travel reports.

Sager was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

He died on January 2, 2014 in Potsdam. The funeral service took place in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDF mourns reporter Dirk Sager, heute.de ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Obituaries from the family and ZDF, Tagesspiegel from January 9, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Sager, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2014
Place of death Potsdam