Georg Bossert

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Georg Bossert (* 1939 ; † October 23, 1995 in Düsseldorf ) was a German radio and television producer , editor and radio presenter .

Life

From 1965 to 1976 Bossert was the children's radio editor at WDR in Cologne .

From 1968 to 1970 he produced the successful children's music show Betty Beat box houses , which at irregular intervals in the first program of the ARD aired. The content of the program were contemporary children's songs in the style of Schlager and Beat, which Christian Bruhn had composed mainly for this program. The texts were specially written by children's book authors such as Erich Kästner , James Krüss and Eva Rechlin . Gitte Hænning , Katja Ebstein , Graham Bonney , Chris Howland and the Marbles appeared as singers . The backing band was the then little-known Cologne band “Stowaways”, which was later renamed “ Bläck Fööss ”. Bossert himself hosted the show together with the 1968 twelve-year-old Sibylle Kirmess ("Betty").

Together with Ingeborg Oehme-Tröndle, Bossert presented the program Rotlicht for the first time on WDR radio in 1971 , which was an editorially new type of children's program. The aim here was to get away from the harmless honesty and the “ideal world” that had dominated children's radio up to now and to present the children's environment as it actually was, while also consciously addressing children's problems. This concept turned out to be forward-looking, as the children's programs of the following years attracted attention “mainly because of their realistic radio plays and journalistic forms such as reports, interviews and live discussions”.

With effect from January 1977 Bossert was brought to Radio Luxemburg by program director Frank Elstner , where he successfully continued the concept of children's radio that had been started at WDR. ("Bossert likes to live from the moment, likes to be on site, employs children as reporters, lets them write, paint, play along. [...] He talks to children about family problems, school worries, drug fears.") Here he also ran the " Kindertage ”, where on one Sunday a year children organized the entire program from 8 am to 4 pm under his direction. New Year 1978 the first Children's Day took place with Désirée Nosbusch , Anke Engelke , Thomas Elstner , Birgit Hoff u. a. From 1977 to 1981 he was editor and presenter, among other things, of the programs the 10 to seven thing and wait a minute . The latter in particular became very popular with children and young people. As the discoverer of Désirée Nosbusch and Anke Engelke, he also used them as co-presenters of this program.

When Bossert announced in the spring of 1981 that he had separated from his wife in order to live with his then 16-year-old foster daughter Désirée Nosbusch, those in charge at Radio Luxemburg no longer considered him suitable to continue to be head of children's and youth radio. so that he left the station by mutual agreement. He then worked as a freelance media producer and manager of Nosbusch, which remained his partner until 1990. In an interview in 2020, Désirée Nosbusch spoke of a life of abuse and violence that she had to lead with Bossert. His successor as the presenter of Moment mal was Rolf Zuckowski in 1981 .

In 1995 Bossert was stabbed to death by his grown son.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier : Das Fernsehlexikon . All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade. Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-30124-6 , p. 141.
  2. ↑ http://www.fernsehserien.de/index.php?serie=4035
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.radio-journal.de/luxi/61_00heinz_story.htm
  5. ↑ The magazine of Radio Luxemburg - here is RTL - one-time special edition. Published by CLT Compagnie luxembourgeoise de télédiffusion, Luxembourg, Villa Louvigny. Gruner + Jahr, Itzehoe 1978. Quoted from: http://www.radio-journal.de/luxi/49_00hier-ist-rtl.htm
  6. ↑ BILD + FUNK 19/1981, p. 8.
  7. ↑ Son stabbed Desiree's ex-boyfriend. In: Berliner Kurier . October 24, 1995, accessed September 11, 2015 .
  8. ^ Ex-manager of Desiree Nosbusch stabbed to death. In: Rhein-Zeitung . October 24, 1995, accessed September 11, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bossert, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German producer, editor and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1995
Place of death Dusseldorf