Edmund Gruber
Edmund Leo Gruber (born September 5, 1936 in Munich ; † November 8, 1996 there ) was a German television journalist and radio director .
Life
From 1956 to 1960 he studied economics in Munich . From 1956 he was also an editor and local reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He stayed there until 1963.
From 1963 Gruber worked as an editor for Bavarian television. First he was in the Politics and Current Affairs department and then until 1966 a member of the BR Report editorial team . From 1966 to 1967 Gruber was an editor for domestic and foreign policy at ZDF .
From 1967 to 1973 Gruber was a correspondent for ARD in Tel Aviv . There he was responsible for the countries Israel, Greece, Turkey, Iran and Cyprus. He became known through reporting on the Six Day War . From 1973 to 1978 he was ARD correspondent in London and from March 1978 ZDF correspondent in Washington.
From July 1981 he was a member of the editor-in-chief of ARD-aktuell .
Gruber was very controversial as a journalist; he was accused of tendentious reporting in favor of conservative positions. In 1981 there was a scandal when, on August 18, 1981, 27 TV journalists from ARD-aktuell wrote a letter to the director of the NDR, Friedrich Wilhelm Räuker , complaining that Gruber was exercising “internal censorship”. Gruber rejected the allegations and spoke of "irresponsible trend journalism" of the group of editors.
From April 1, 1988, Gruber was director of Deutschlandfunk (DLF). On September 29, 1992, he was voted out by the DLF Broadcasting Council with 21 of 22 votes. Members of the Broadcasting Council had previously accused him of authoritarian leadership and financial inaccuracy.
Gruber died of cancer .
literature
- Edmund Gruber , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 09/1997 from February 17, 1997, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ uni-magdeburg.de
- ↑ tv-nostalgie.de
- ↑ Edmund Gruber . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1992, pp. 348 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gruber, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gruber, Edmund Leo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television journalist and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1996 |
| Place of death | Munich |