Hagen from Ortloff

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Hagen von Ortloff (born May 15, 1949 in Zwickau ) is a German television presenter. He was best known for the television program Eisenbahn-Romantik produced by SWR .

biography

His parents owned a brick factory in Zwickau and fled to West Berlin in 1953 . In 1957 his father died. Ortloff spent his childhood with his grandmother in Dresden and was only able to move to his mother in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1960 , where he lived near Heilbronn . Among other things, he attended the Justinus-Kerner-Gymnasium in nearby Weinsberg . The prize for outstanding social commitment to the school community, which is awarded annually by the school management there to selected high school graduates , bears his name.

In 1975 Hagen von Ortloff completed his studies as an industrial engineer, which he began in 1972 at the University of Applied Sciences for Printing in Stuttgart . This was followed by studies in sociology , political science and business administration at the University of Stuttgart , which he completed in 1984 as a master’s degree . pole. completed. He also studied communication science at the University of Hohenheim . In addition, from 1977 he worked as a freelancer for Süddeutscher Rundfunk . He made the first railway film in November 1978 for a news program for children called “Durchblick”: “It lasted one and a half minutes and was about the Winnenden Private Model Railway Association , which still exists today,” said Ortloff in an interview. After that he worked in the sports department and in 1986 he took part in a "Jedermann" triathlon (500 m swimming, 29 km cycling, 6 km running). From the end of 1979 he was also a member of the editorial team of the Abendschau . In 1991 the series Eisenbahn-Romantik began broadcasting , which Hagen von Ortloff accompanied as a presenter until 2015. He also spoke out against the Stuttgart 21 rail project and advocated the 21 terminus.

In December 2014 it was announced that von Ortloff was " de jure " retired. At the end of 2015 he announced that he would withdraw from moderating the show; Eisenbahn-Romantik has been broadcast without a presenter since 2016.

Awards

  • Claus Köpcke Prize 2010 from the Association for the Promotion of Saxon Narrow Gauge Railways

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The railway romantic Hagen von Ortloff - a portrait on YouTube
  2. ^ A b c Nicole Köster : Interview with Hagen von Ortloff. In: SWR-1 people . SWR.de, July 13, 2017, accessed March 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Eva HerschmannEva: Hagen von Ortloff - a quarter of a century "railway romance". Even as a pensioner he stays on track. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Stuttgarter Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, January 26, 2016, accessed on March 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Off-text from around 29:00 in SWR-Eisenbahnromantik: KuK-Monarchie-Dampf-Express part 1 (episode 828) , accessed on January 16, 2016, first broadcast on December 5, 2014
  5. ↑ Hagen's weekly review of December 21, 2015 , accessed on January 16, 2016
  6. ↑ Special prize for life's work: Hagen v. Ortloff receives the Claus Köpcke Prize. SWR.de, December 16, 2010, accessed on December 14, 2012 (special prize in the media category): "The Claus Köpcke Prize was awarded for the eighth time"
personal data
SURNAME Ortloff, Hagen from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH May 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau