Hans-Dieter Lange
Hans-Dieter Lange (born June 20, 1926 in Elbing ; † May 18, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German television journalist. As the spokesman for the main news program on GDR television, “ Current Camera ”, he was the chief spokesman for the speaker's collective until the reunification .
Life
After graduating from high school, Lange attended drama school in Gdansk . In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, in 1945 he became a Canadian prisoner of war, and until 1946 he worked as a paramedic in the UNRRA camp in Bergen-Belsen . After acting engagements at the Hildesheim City Theater and the Bonn City Theaters, he began as a speaker for GDR radio in 1950.
In 1963 he swapped the radio microphone for the television camera and soon became chief spokesman for the "AK"; he held this position until 1990. However, he could never completely renounce the broadcasting medium, and so he was heard there as a speaker from time to time. As chief spokesman, he was also responsible for the education and training of the next generation of speakers.
In the television series Spuk unterm Ferris wheel , Hans-Dieter Lange played a news anchor. He also played a broadcaster in the feature film Ernst Thälmann - Leader of His Class .
In 1989 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
Radio plays
- 1963: Bernhard Seeger : Rauhreif (speaker) - director: Theodor Popp (radio play - radio of the GDR )
- 1970: Wil Lipatow : Viktoria und die Fischer (narrator) - Director: Theodor Popp (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1975: Jules Verne : The Invention of Verderbens (narrator) - Director: Andreas Scheinert (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Hans-Dieter Lange . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Hans-Dieter Lange in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Calendar of the German Broadcasting Archive (PDF; 3.4 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The calm of the »AK« new Germany May 23, 2012
- ↑ Overview of the actors on defa-sternstunden.de
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 3, 1989, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lange, Hans-Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elblag |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 2012 |
| Place of death | Berlin |