Günter D. Alt

Günter Ditmar Reinhard Alt (born May 20, 1944 in Breslau ) is a German television journalist and presenter .

Life

After fleeing from his homeland, Alt grew up in Ebersberg and Eichstätt . After graduating from high school in 1963 at Gutenberg High School in Mainz , he began training at ZDF . His first trainers were the sports reporters Harry Valérien and Rainer Günzler , who let him participate in projects such as the feature film series Hallo Max with Gustav Knuth as Max Schmeling and the current sport studio . After two years he had completed his training as a TV journalist.

He then became a police reporter for Südwestfunk in the state studio in Mainz and a screenwriter for the ZDF series Caution Trap! and file number XY unsolved . In 1972, the then ZDF news chief Karlheinz Rudolph brought him back to ZDF. For almost 20 years, Alt worked for the programs heute , heute-journal , Länderspiegel and turntable at hot spots in Germany and abroad. He specialized in organized crime and terrorism .

In 1988, Alt joined the WISO team, where he worked on the then new topic of “computers”. He moderated the WISO tips with a technological background on computers, cell phones and digital cameras. Advice on saving energy and high-tech were also his subjects. He is considered the "inventor" of the WISO monthly diskette and the spiritual father of the advisory software. Alt became deputy editor-in-chief. His “WISO tax savings book” for tax returns quickly became Europe's best-selling business software. As initiator and publisher, he launched several dozen software programs from the WISO series.

In addition to his work at ZDF, Alt was the author of industrial and training films for Lufthansa , Deutsche Bahn and the pharmaceutical industry for many years . He was a guest lecturer at the Police Leadership Academy in Münster-Hiltrup and a moderator at public events. He published the books “WISO Tips”, “Internet @ Co”, “WISO Energieberater”, the Amazon e-book “Bau & Kauf” and others.

After leaving ZDF, Alt was president of hightech presseclub e. V. As a mentor, he supports prospective journalists at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and supports start-ups .

Alt now lives in the Munich area , is married and has two sons.

Awards

His work has received several television awards, including a. the "Crime Prevention Journalist Prize" for the series Die Kripo advises , the "Christopherus Prize" for the report Die Blechlawine and the 1st prize at the Shanghai TV Festival for the report on heart transplantation .

Web links

Günter D. Alt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Website by Günter D. Alt

personal data
SURNAME	Alt, Günter D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alt, Günter Ditmar Reinhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German television journalist and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw