Gerhard Klarner

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Gerhard Klarner (born February 5, 1927 in Leipzig , † January 22, 1990 in Wiesbaden ) was a German news anchor .

Life

Gerhard Klarner initially trained as an actor and director. He did literary cabaret in Leipzig and in 1946 was the first speaker to go to Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , which was then based in Leipzig. In 1950 he went to the NWDR in Berlin and four years later switched to the broadcaster Free Berlin .

The newly founded ZDF hired Klarner as a newscaster to begin broadcasting on April 1, 1963. For more than 26 years he was the newscaster for the heute program , first off-screen , and from 1974 also in front of the camera. He became one of the most famous and popular faces on ZDF. After the program ended, his trademark was the obligatory sticking of a ballpoint pen in a suit jacket - but the pen was actually put in his shirt pocket.

Klarner had a famous appearance in 1986 in the game show Dalli Dalli with Hans Rosenthal when he fell from a tricycle in one of the games.

Klarner, based in Taunusstein, was a friend of US culture, so he loved jazz , American city life and American literature .

Klarner developed liver cancer in the late 1980s . On September 6, 1989, he hosted the heute news for the last time and then underwent treatment. The planned return in February 1990 did not take place. Klarner fell into a coma and died on January 22, 1990 without regaining consciousness.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Klarner, Gerhard, p. 228 .

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personal data
SURNAME Klarner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German news anchor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1990
Place of death Wiesbaden