Hans Walter Berg

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Hans Walter Berg, 1985

Hans Walter Berg (born October 20, 1916 in Varel ; † November 7, 2003 in Unteruhldingen ) was a prominent foreign correspondent for ARD in Asia.

Life

Hans Walter Berg was born in 1916 in Varel (Friesland) as the son of an engineer and a hairdresser. In Varel he first attended the boys' school and the upper secondary school. He left the Oberrealschule in Oldenburg (today: Herbartgymnasium Oldenburg ), to which he then switched, in 1934 with the primary school leaving certificate. After obtaining his university entrance qualification without the Abitur at Bavarian universities, he studied history, art history and literary history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He completed his studies with a doctorate. In 1938 he also passed the Master of Arts exam in “Far Eastern History” at the University of Michigan . After the war he lived as an agricultural eleve on Gut Meyenburg, north of Bremen. In 1949 he began his journalistic career as an editor at "Weser-Kurier" in Bremen; in 1951 and 1952 he headed the newspaper's politics section.

From 1952 he traveled to Asia as a freelance correspondent for ARD and numerous German-language daily newspapers. Further professional positions have included New Delhi and Hong Kong , where he headed the ARD television studio. In 1970 he became NDR special correspondent.

By 1981, the year of his retirement, he had reported in 72 "Faces of Asia" films, 250 " Weltspiegel " programs, as many special programs and more than 2,000 radio commentaries from the Far East.

In 1979 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit for his pioneering work in the service of international understanding.

His colleague Peter Scholl-Latour wrote about Hans Walter Berg: "It would be worth investigating how long and deeply the German image of Asia was shaped by this tireless correspondent - this" Marco Polo of our days "."

"Hans Walter Berg was a television pioneer who made people in Germany familiar with Asia for the first time and who had a lasting impact on their image of the Far East," said NDR director Jobst Plog . "His professional curiosity was a role model for many journalists who came after him."

family

Hans Walter Berg was married to Charlotte (née Freiin von dem Bussche -Hünnefeld).

Works

  • Faces of Asia - Thirty Years of Eyewitness to History . Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-455-08721-3 .
  • India. Dream and reality . Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-612-26182-7 .
  • The legacy of the Mughals. The fate of the peoples between the Hindu Kush and the Bay of Bengal . Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-455-08285-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hans Walter Berg: "Curriculum Vitae", archive of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , Sign. O-XI-7
  2. ↑ See Hans Walter Berg: "Asylum on the Meyenburg Manor", in: Rudolf Pörtner (Ed.): Christmas after the war. Memories of 1945 . Düsseldorf 1995, pp. 15-28
  3. ↑ a b c Mourning for Hans Walter Berg - NDR television dedicates a film night to the Far East expert, broadcast date: Saturday, November 15, from 1.00 a.m. In: presseportal.de. November 10, 2003, accessed May 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Hans Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foreign correspondent for ARD in Asia
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Varel
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2003
Place of death Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance