Egon F. Freedom
Egon F. Freiheit (born February 23, 1944 in Soldau , East Prussia ) is a German journalist , author and media consultant . His main areas of activity are new developments for television broadcasters, production companies and publishers as well as moderator management.
Life
Egon F. Freiheit initially worked as a researcher, reporter and editor-in-chief for local, regional and tabloid newspapers, including Der Mittag and Bild-Zeitung . In 1972 he moved to Welt am Sonntag as a political and economic correspondent . In 1973 he was initially head of the Munich office of Welt am Sonntag , after which he became head of politics / economics at Bild am Sonntag and a member of the editorial board. In January 1980 he joined Gruner + Jahr as one of the three founding editor-in-chief of the business magazine impulse .
In 1984, at the request of impulse publisher Johannes Gross, Gruner + Jahr / Bertelsmann sent him as programming officer and editor-in-chief to the first German-speaking private TV broadcaster ( RTL plus ) in Luxembourg , where he set up the information area. During this time, the news show started 7 to 7 . At the same time, Freiheit brought presenters such as Peter Kloeppel , Ulrich Meyer and Ulrich “Ulli” Potofski to RTL. At the beginning of 1987 he went back to Germany and succeeded Gert Braun as editor-in-chief of Illustrierte Quick in Munich. The freedom brought as "emergency helper" and "savior" could not meet all expectations. He increased the market share, but the circulation continued to decrease during his time as editor-in-chief. In 1988 he left the paper. Sales per issue were 815,800 when he took office and 768,200 when he left.
In 1989, Freiheit went independent . He wrote the screenplay for the RTL melodrama Mother, I don't want to die ; The film version achieved a record high of around 8.27 million viewers with a 28.7 percent market share.
On June 26, 2010 he married the actress Maren Gilzer , with whom he had been living for 17 years at that time. In July 2013, the couple announced their separation.
Publications
- As editor: The great book of economics . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh, 1995, ISBN 3-570-10577-6 ; License issue in China.
- Love pays the highest interest. Novel . Freedom Concepts, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039479-9 . A novel against the backdrop of the financial crisis.
- The heiress, the sin, the oath. Novel . SWB-Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-944264-42-4
- The devil lures with red roses. Novel . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform , 2016, ISBN 978-1-5191-8748-2
- The puzzle of love. Love story . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform , 2018, ISBN 978-1-7271-2670-9
Web links
- Website by Egon F. Freiheit
- 25 years of RTL - rating hits: TOP 5 self-produced TV movies . ( Memento from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Uli Martin, Günther Bähr: Media: The information war . Focus 39/1995, September 24, 1995
- Otto Köhler: The consequence of communal life . Der Spiegel 51/1969, December 15, 1969, p. 178
- Intriguers are at work in Moscow: the media race for exclusive Rust stories . Der Spiegel 37/1987, September 7, 1987, pp. 148-158
- Egon F. Freedom . Der Spiegel 43/1988, October 24, 1988, p. 280
- Peter Stolle: pole vault with the salt stick . Der Spiegel 13/1989, March 27, 1989, pp. 234-243
- Television: power in action . Der Spiegel 32/1994, August 8, 1984, pp. 61-62
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maren Gilzer and her husband split after three years of marriage , dpa article in the Berliner Zeitung on July 8, 2013, accessed on July 8, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freedom, Egon F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, author and media consultant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soldau , East Prussia |