Gerda Meuer

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Gerda Meuer (born November 12, 1958 ) is a German journalist and program director for Deutsche Welle .

Life

In addition to German studies , Meuer also studied film, television and history at the University of Cologne . Meuer initially worked at Inter Press Service from 1985 to 1987 and later completed a traineeship at Deutsche Welle. As part of a cooperation, she worked as an editor for the German service of Radio Japan in Tokyo from 1991.

After her return to Deutsche Welle in 1996, she was appointed head of the service , and in 1999 also deputy editor-in-chief of the German program. Between 2000 and 2003 she was the radio correspondent for the station in Brussels and then head of the Deutsche Welle training facility, DW Akademie . When the director's post was to be filled in 2013 to succeed Erik Bettermann , Meuer was considered a candidate. Meuer has been the station's sole program director since November 1, 2013. She is in charge of the two previously independent and now combined areas of Multimedia Regional and Multimedia Global. She is therefore responsible for radio and television as well as for the Internet across all media .

Meuer is a member of the University Council of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences .

Web links

  • CV on the homepage of Deutsche Welle

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b kress - The Media Service (accessed on November 14, 2013).
  2. ↑ Ulrike Simon: Director desperately wanted. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of February 7, 2013 (accessed November 14, 2013).
  3. ↑ Hochschule OWL - high lights, highlights, autumn reception. ( Memento from November 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Lippe-Blatt from October 21, 2013 (accessed on November 14, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Meuer, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1958