Günter Nerlich

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Günter Nerlich (born January 7, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German editor and foreign correspondent for the German television station (DFF), the GDR's state television station.

Life

Günter Nerlich came from a middle-class background, as his parents owned various houses in Berlin. After attending elementary and high school, he completed the Reich Labor Service in 1944. In 1944/45 he was a member of the Wehrmacht and at the end of the war he became a Soviet prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1949. In captivity from 1947 to 1949 he was a course instructor or teacher at the Central Antifascule 2041 - an antifascist front school that had been set up in the Soviet Union on the initiative of the Comintern for prisoners of war. In 1949 Günter Nerlich returned to Germany. He became a party member of the SED in 1950 .

Worked for the German television broadcaster

From 1950 to 1952 Nerlich worked as an editor at Berliner Rundfunk . He then became editor-in-chief at the GDR State Broadcasting Committee. At the same time, he began distance learning to become a graduate economist at the HU Berlin and the University of Foreign Trade, which he graduated in 1957.

At the beginning of 1954, Nerlich received the order to rebuild the editor-in-chief of the current camera , the central news format in the DFF program since 1952. However, he only held the post of editor-in-chief of the current camera for a short time; from 1956 he produced foreign reports for the DFF. From 1957/58 to 1961 he was the first foreign correspondent in Moscow. In this early phase of GDR television, Nerlich took on many functions in Moscow at the same time: he was editor, director, editor-in-chief and himself a cameraman.

After his return from Moscow, Nerlich was editor-in-chief for reports and documentaries from 1961 to 1964 as well as a member of the DFF committee. 1964 followed a stay as a correspondent in Cairo. Then he worked again until 1971 as editor-in-chief for reports and documentaries. In 1971 he went to Singapore to work as a correspondent in the Southeast Asia regional office. During this time he was considered an expert on broadcasts and the like. a. via Egypt, Yemen, Cyprus or Afghanistan. In 1989 Nerlich was sent to the UNESCO studio in Lusaka. In 1990 he retired.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bösenberg, Jost-Arend: The Current Camera (1952–1990). Control mechanisms on television in the GDR. Potsdam 2004, pp. 118-120.
  2. ↑ Nerlich, Günter | Federal foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Nerlich, Günter | Federal foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ Bösenberg, Jost-Arend: The Current Camera (1952–1990). Control mechanisms on television in the GDR. Potsdam 2004, pp. 118-119.
  5. ↑ Nerlich, Günter | Federal foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nerlich, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and foreign correspondent for the German Television Broadcasting Corporation (DFF)
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin