Helga Kirchner

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Helga Kirchner (2010)

Helga Kirchner (born October 20, 1946 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German journalist and former WDR editor-in-chief.

Life

After completing her teaching degree, Helga Kirchner completed an editorial traineeship at WDR and then worked in the youth program “Radiothek” at WDR radio. She later switched to politics and culture. She was a commentator on the ARD-Tagesthemen and developed the "Funkhaus talk". As editor-in-chief, she headed the politics program on radio at WDR for ten years. She retired in 2009.

Helga Kirchner is married and has one son.

Volunteering

In the Civis Media Foundation for Integration and Cultural Diversity , she worked as chair of the program advisory board.

For the Association of Journalists , Helga Kirchner developed the media-political event format Medienlabor together with journalists Eva Hehemann, Rosemarie Mieder, Sibylle Plogstedt and Diemuth Roether , in which current media-political issues are taken up and discussed with experts. She is part of the jury for the Courage Prize for current media coverage of the Association of Women Journalists.

Award

The Journalistinnenbund (jb) honored Helga Kirchner in 2010 with the Hedwig Dohm certificate for her life's work.

Movie

  • WDR story (s) - Helga Kirchner. Script and direction: Klaus Martens, 58 min., WDR TV 2018, WDR media library unlimited.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ media laboratory. Journalists Association, accessed on December 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Courage Prize for current reporting. Journalists' Association, accessed on December 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Gerda Hollunder: Laudation for Helga Kirchner. (PDF) Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Martens: A journey through time in interviews | Helga Kirchner. October 6, 2018, accessed July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach