Hans-Josef Dreckmann

Hans-Josef Dreckmann (2012)

Hans-Josef Dreckmann (born September 17, 1938 in Oberhausen ) is a German television journalist.

Life

Dreckmann, the son of a worker, studied Latin and German at the Universities of Münster and Munich from 1958 to 1964 . In 1967 he received his doctorate .

From November 1964 to 1971 he worked as an editor for Ruhr Nachrichten in Dortmund , where he made it to the position of head of the news department. In 1971 he went to WDR . From August 1974 to 1980 he was a correspondent for ARD television in Brussels and from 1981 to 1987 in Africa ( Nairobi ). In 1987 he became deputy head of the WDR in Cologne. From 1991 he worked again as an ARD correspondent, first in Moscow , from 1994 to 2001 again in Africa. In 2000 he did not meet the expectation of the responsible ARD editorial team to deliver a “disaster report” from Ethiopia , because according to his research there was local hunger and malnutrition, but no famine.

Honors

• Honorable recognition within the framework of the Adolf Grimme Prize (with Martin Schulze ) for the report Protocol of a hostage-taking (1975)
• German Industrial Film Award (1977)
• Honorable recognition in the context of the Adolf Grimme Prize (with Meja Mwangi ) for the program Twice Kenya (1982)
• Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize , especially for his work during the refugee disaster in Zaire (1998)
• Bruno H. Schubert Prize (2000)
• Marler Television Award for Human Rights (2001)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (September 7, 2001)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lutz Mükke: “We pray for rain in Canada.” The big business with Ethiopia's unending hunger . In: Thomas Leif (Ed.): More Passion - Research. Scandal stories and reports of disclosures. A handbook for research and information gathering . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-14126-0 , pp. 199–209, here pp. 208–209.
2. ↑ List of holders of the Federal Order of Merit (Federal President's Office)