Heinz Metlitzky

Heinz Metlitzky (born September 18, 1927 in Neudek , Czechoslovakia ) is a German foreign correspondent .

Life

During the Second World War , Heinz Metlitzky fled to Baden-Württemberg with his family . After graduating from high school in Esslingen am Neckar , Metlitzky first became a trainee and then an editor for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten . In the following years he studied at the Missouri School of Journalism . In the mid-1950s he started working as a television journalist for Süddeutscher Rundfunk . In 1963 he went to ZDF and directed the program In These Days ... Current Affairs - Seen Up Close .

Metlitzky was one of the co-initiators of the ZDF magazine , which was moderated by Gerhard Löwenthal from 1969 . In 1966 Metlitzky went to Vienna as a ZDF foreign correspondent . In 1968, the ZDF program Chronik der Woche reported on the Prague Spring and the unrest in Czechoslovakia .

In 1970 Heinz Metlitzky built the ZDF Middle East Studio in Beirut . For over 10 years he reported on the civil war in Lebanon . His reports from the Minet-el-Hosn district in front of the destroyed Hotel Holiday Inn became known in the news program today , where the camera team was filming in the immediate vicinity of the bombing. In 1976 Metlitzky shot a portrait of Egyptian President Anwar as-Sadat together with Rudolf Woller for the ZDF program “Zeitgenossen” . In the 1980s, his reports from India and Afghanistan were broadcast in the international journal . In Afghanistan, above all, he had the opportunity to accompany the mujahideen . Metlitzky last worked as a war correspondent in the early 1990s during the siege of Sarajevo . Today Heinz Metlitzky lives with his wife, the German war photographer Ursula Meissner , retired near Mainz .

Works

• Death dance. Sex and AIDS in Africa. Eichborn 2003. ISBN 978-382-183-973-8

literature

• Interview and short biography. In: Cut , 9/2007.