Geri Nasarski

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Geri Nasarski (* 1944 near Poznan ; † January 8, 2020 ) was a German television journalist . She was the first editor-in-chief of the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) .

Life

Geri Nasarski studied Eastern European History , Slavic Studies as well as Social and Economic History at the University of Cologne . In 1975 she received her doctorate from Günther Stökl . She then worked as a research assistant at Saarland University .

She began her journalistic career in 1977 as an editor at the ZDF -Landesstudio Berlin, where she worked, among other things, for the program Kennzeichen D and produced magazine articles about the GDR, Poland and the Soviet Union. In 1986 she went to Warsaw as a correspondent for ZDF . In 1992 she took over the position of editor-in-chief for television in the newly founded ORB . In 1997 she became the ORB representative for Eastern Europe and ARTE . It was there that she launched the award-winning German-Polish television program Kowalski meets Schmidt (initially under the title Kowalski & Co. ). She also oversaw the ORB productions for the German-French cultural channel ARTE. Since 2003 she has worked for the rbb , which emerged from the merger of ORB and SFB . There she initially headed the television editorial department for Central and Eastern Europe and, from 2006, the program area Modern Life. In 2008 Geri Nasarski retired.

As a Poland specialist, Nasarski published two books about the neighboring country. Since 1993 she was a member of the committee for the awarding of the German-Polish Prize in the Foreign Office and had a seat on the jury of the German-Polish Journalist Prize .

Nasarski had last lived in Kleinmachnow .

Awards

She was honored with the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Knight) and for her commitment to European politics with a European certificate from the State of Brandenburg . In 1995 she and Wolfgang Drescher received the Adolf Grimme Prize for Chronicle of the Wende .

Works

  • Gerlind Nasarski: Eastern European ideas in conservative-revolutionary journalism. Analysis of the magazine “Deutsches Volkstum” 1917–1941. Lang, Bern 1972.
  • Geri Nasarski: Poland is not lost yet. The tragedy of a proud nation. Fritz Molden Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 978-3-217-01235-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First ORB editor-in-chief Geri Nasarski has died. Notification on the rbb website , January 10, 2020. Accessed January 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Former ORB editor-in-chief Geri Nasarski has died. Der Tagesspiegel, January 10, 2020, accessed on January 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nasarski, Geri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasarski, Gerlind
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH at poses
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2020