Helga Märthesheimer

Helga Märthesheimer (born March 27, 1938 in Kassel as Helga Gross ; † March 11, 2008 in Cologne ) was a German radio and television journalist.

Life

After graduating from high school, Helga Märthesheimer studied sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Free University of Berlin . From 1966 she worked as a freelancer for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne. Together with Dietmar Schönherr and Peter Hajek , she was one of the initiators of the first German talk show The Later the Evening . In addition, Helga Märthesheimer was a regular author of the ZeitZeich and moderated the morning magazine on WDR 2 . From 1978 to 1981 she was a permanent editor at the political magazine Monitor . She also became known for television documentaries from the former GDR . Märthesheimer received the Jakob Kaiser Prize in 1984 for the report Walks through the GDR: The Spreewald . Until her retirement in 1998, Helga Märthesheimer worked as an ARD correspondent in Brussels. For the documentary Three Before Midnight: Caution Atomic Experts , she received the Adolf Grimme Special Prize Live in 1987 (together with Elke Hockerts-Werner and Gabriele Krone-Schmalz ).

Helga Märthesheimer died shortly before her 70th birthday after a serious illness and was buried anonymously at her request.

personal data
SURNAME	Märthesheimer, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gross, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German radio and television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	kassel
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 2008
Place of death	Cologne