today (TV show)
| Television broadcast | |
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| Original title | today |
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| Country of production |
 Germany
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| original language | German |
| Year (s) | since 1963 |
| Production company |
ZDF |
| length | 20 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Every day |
| genre | news |
| Moderation | Main issue:
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| First broadcast | April 1, 1963 on ZDF |
Today is a news program of the Second German Television (ZDF) with current reports of the day from the fields of politics, economy, science, culture, society, sport and weather. The main edition of the Today program is broadcast daily at 7:00 p.m.
history
1960s
The news broadcast went on air for the first time on April 1, 1963, with the start of ZDF broadcasting at 7:30 p.m., immediately after the speech by the artistic director Karl Holzamer , at 7:35 p.m. The first broadcast today was moderated by the studio editor Carl Weiss , it lasted exactly 11:30 p.m. and ended at 7:58:30 p.m. after the weather report and the farewell to the studio editor. The name today was decided on February 8, 1963. The question, "Did you see today yesterday?" Initially caused great amusement among the employees, but was soon no longer perceived as unusual. The main issue today was 25 minutes, followed by weather, and first ran 7:30 p.m. to 20:00.
The “Tagesgeschehen” editorial team of the newly founded ZDF, which produced and was responsible for the news program with heute , wanted to show viewers a new form of television news. The current news of the day should not only be presented in words and pictures, they also wanted to show the background. The principle of ZDF and its news program was not only to tell the viewer what happened, but also to offer explanations about the how and why .
The news program today should therefore be a combination of news and reports that also wanted to shed more light on the background of the individual reports.
From the start, ZDF wanted to clearly differentiate itself from the then firmly established and up to then only news program on German television, the ARD - Tagesschau . In the beginning, however, the program began with the gong known from the Tagesschau and the words "Here is the second German television".
In addition to the main issue, there has also been early news since today's broadcast began. The ZDF program began with a five-minute broadcast the evening before. The first longer edition today was broadcast on weekdays and on public holidays at 6:30 p.m. After the main news, there was another late edition at around 10:00 p.m., which was broadcast daily and which was continuously expanded.
In the first year of its existence, the broadcast today came from the first ZDF broadcasting center in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main . Here, under provisional conditions, the work of the editors began in partly dilapidated barracks and today's news was also broadcast. The first news studio looked more like an office room than a television studio: the news anchor and, in the main edition, the studio editor sat in front of long curtains at two simple tables that stood next to each other . A meteorologist explained the weather report at the end of the broadcast using two boards, each showing a map of Germany and a map of Europe, on which the course of the weather and the temperatures were drawn in with chalk.
At the beginning of 1964, the main issue of today's broadcast was divided into a news and report section. Due to the greater separation and the associated greater clarity, the television viewer should be able to differentiate more clearly between the reading out of the messages and the explanatory reports. In the news section from 7:30 p.m., the reports of the day were presented by a newscaster and in the following section, which started around 7:45 p.m. and whose beginning was based on the scope of the daily news situation, individual reports were then examined more closely by the studio editor. After the news of the day, the viewer wanted to offer more background information on individual focal points in the report section. These were then deepened through reports, interviews and comments.
On April 1, 1964, the provisional broadcasting center in Wiesbaden / Unter den Eichen began work, and all broadcasts today were broadcast from Wiesbaden.
At the end of the year, short messages were introduced around 9:00 p.m., which informed the viewer in the headlines of the most important events of the day, again before the more detailed late edition.
In the first few years, ZDF also attached great importance to a balanced balance between "light" and "heavy" food in the main edition of heute news. They wanted to deal with the predominantly more difficult topics from politics and economics in more detail with background reports in the late edition around 10 p.m. The ZDF was of the opinion that the television viewer at the time of the broadcast of the main edition could not expect too many difficult and complex topics. But also events of cultural and social life were more likely to be found in the late edition. A few years later this opinion was again deviated from, as the main edition of the Tagesschau, which was already showing all the important news of the day half an hour later at 8:00 p.m.
On February 1, 1965, the report section of the main issue of heute broadcast was given its own broadcast title. The part of the report that began at 7.45 p.m. became Topics of the Day. The content-related separation was now formalized, but both parts were still broadcast from a studio and the handover from the news anchor to the studio editor was still fluid, depending on the news situation.
With the renaming and the stronger weighting of the second part of today's news, the logo of today also changed for the first time. In addition to the new text “today”, the opening credits now also included the current date and the report section now also had its own “topics of the day” text. The broadcast graphics of the ZDF news appeared in the familiar white lowercase letters on a black background. The ZDF logo was now clearly visible behind the news anchor or editor in the studio. Although the two presenters were still in the same studio in the main edition and still sat at different tables, the respective title was now always displayed in the background.
From January 1, 1969, the start of today's broadcast was postponed to 7.45 p.m. The ZDF wanted to adapt to the viewing behavior of the television viewers, and thus to start the main evening program, which was created and implemented many years ago by the ARD, at 8:15 p.m. The strict separation between the news and reporting sections has also been lifted. The two self-contained parts were loosened again. The studio editor began to moderate the main issue of today and the news section became two news blocks. In the first message block, which was sent before 8:00 p.m., you got all the important news of the day from the areas of politics and business. They wanted to pre-empt the news with the most important news. In the second news overview, sports reports were then read out and cultural and social events reported. The ZDF wanted to attract more viewers and, by adapting to the ARD and the associated simultaneous beginning of the evening program, promote existing viewing habits.
The today -Studio presented itself now in a new guise. The news studio has been completely rebuilt and modernized. The rather simple office character gave way to a more modern appearance, which now looked very modern thanks to an oval wall covered with white fabric and the two, now much larger, tables in front of it. The two tables were no longer next to each other, but now in a semicircle opposite one another. The newscaster sat at the smaller table to the right of the studio editor, while the studio editor's table was twice as long. Both tables stood on a pedestal and were lined with brown leather from the front.
A large globe was projected onto the white wall, along with the two broadcast titles “heute” and “topics of the day” on the left and right, and the ZDF logo in the middle. Thanks to new technical possibilities, still images for the individual messages could now also be transmitted on the wall. With this technical and optical renewal, today's news became more modern and, thanks to the leather look and wood paneling, took into account the taste of that time.
1970s
Since March 29, 1970, all issues of heute news and all magazine programs have been broadcast in color .
Since October 1, 1973, the main edition of the Today program has been broadcast at 7:00 p.m.
With a new program scheme and a simultaneous restructuring of the “Tagesgeschehen” editorial office, which was renamed “News” in 1972, the entire ZDF television program was changed on October 1, 1973. The program reform decided in 1971 was the largest and most comprehensive change in the ZDF program up to that point in the ten-year history of ZDF and heute -Nachrichten.
The first broadcast today in the daily program was now broadcast at 5:00 p.m. and was five minutes longer than the early news. In the ten-minute broadcast, all of the day's important news were presented in compact form for the first time. In the turntable , around 6:00 p.m., there were again short messages that were approx. 2 minutes long.
The main edition of today's broadcast has been cut by 8 minutes and is now only 22 minutes long. The two areas of today and the topics of the day have again been combined into one broadcast today . The separation between reports and reports that had been loosened since 1969 has now been completely abandoned. The biggest change in the main edition, however, was that it is now only presented by an “ editor in the studio ”, who now also spoke the news of the day. Since the start of today's news in 1963, the main evening news broadcast has always been presented by a studio editor and a newscaster, but now the speaker has no longer been used in the main edition. "The journalistic presentation of this kind is supposed to take away some of the official" announcement character "criticized at the time from the previous news delivery," said ZDF. This intention was supported by the fact that the editors should now present their outstanding news films themselves, through this consideration the television viewer should be brought closer to the fact that a news program is not the work of a single, visible editor, but is made by a team.
With Otto Diepholz and Claus Seibel , the main edition of Today's program is getting two new faces after its restructuring, who will have a decisive influence on the 19:00 news for decades .
Up until October 1973, the main edition of heute -Nachrichten was presented alternately by four studio editors, from the start of the new broadcast and the associated renewal of the ZDF-Nachrichten, the 19:00 edition was moderated by 5, later 6 editors.
The short messages at 9:00 p.m. became a longer broadcast today , which now lasted 15 minutes and once again provided detailed information on the most important events of the day. In addition to the 7 p.m. main edition , this edition was also directed by an editor in the studio.
At the end of the broadcast, the late news continued to show a summary of the day's events. At the weekend the broadcast times of the today were always different, only on Sunday the broadcast came today with the subsequent weekly review Chronicle of the Week, which has been running since 1965, always at 11:30 a.m.
With the introduction of today's news at 7:00 p.m. and the associated sole presentation by the studio editor, News Studio 3 in Wiesbaden also got a new look. Since October 1, 1973, today's news anchors and studio editors have appeared against the background of a red brick wall. Instead of the wood paneling and the two presentation tables framed with leather upholstery, the brick is now finding its way into the studio. Through the red-brown brick wall, one wanted to convey the uncovered reality to the viewer and with it the atmosphere of a "news workshop", in which all reports should be journalistically processed and presented to the viewer in an understandable form in words and pictures. The red brick wall was not originally planned, but subsequent considerations, such as making the wall white, were discarded. The audience had already got used to it and wanted it to remain so “unplastered”.
In addition to the already known possibilities of additional representations of information; such as explanatory pieces, comments, interviews or correspondent reports, difficult word messages could now be shown and explained more understandably with the help of graphic support.
For the first time, the new logogram designed by Otl Aicher appeared with the typical lettering "today" that has shaped over many decades. The picture of the news broadcast was characterized by the lettering with round letters on a blue background, plus the significant clock with round numbers that was introduced, as well as the long shot at the start of the broadcast, which now shows the studio room for the first time, even before the broadcast begins. For the first time you saw the studio editor or the newscaster a few seconds before the broadcast began. In the background of the then news studio stood a metal frame with the well-known “today” clock and beneath it was a board with the white “today” logo on a light blue background.
By 1 January 1978, experienced today messages their hitherto biggest change: From today was -Issue at 21:00 January 2, the heute-journal . The magazine edition of the heute program was launched together with the ARD - Tagesthemen and was supposed to specialize in 20 minutes - in addition to a news block - increasingly on individual reports of the day with background reports, analyzes and interviews. The heute-journal got its own editorial team and was also moderated by its own studio editors.
All broadcasts today received a new look and within the 19 o'clock main edition a satellite color image from the Meteosat was shown for the first time, showing the current weather situation over Central Europe. From now on, both formats presented themselves in a light blue background. The red-brown brick wall had had its day and was replaced by a projection screen. For the first time, the then novel blue screen technology was used. Here graphics, images and headlines were projected onto a surface directly behind the studio editor or news anchor. The typical "news window" with rounded corners appeared on this area for the first time and was to shape the appearance of today's news for 17 years .
In October 1978, the main edition of the Today program was hosted for the first time by two women. With the two editors Ulrike von Möllendorff and Rut Speer , the “male domain” of ZDF news was broken.
1980s
By the end of the 1980s , the permanent staff of the 19 o'clock edition had solidified to 5 editors. In 1981/1982, six studio editors alternated between presenting the main edition. Since Rut von Wuthenau's departure in 1987, there has been a permanent occupation of 4 studio editors, and Ulrike von Möllendorff was the only woman on the ZDF main news program for a few years. The studio editors had about 7-10 assignments a month, sometimes with the rhythm from Monday to Wednesday and then alternately from Thursday to Sunday. During the weekend assignments, the respective studio editor spoke the news of the day again on Sunday at around 9:50 p.m. in a shorter edition followed by sport on Sunday .
With the completion of the third construction phase on the Mainz Lerchenberg , the striking circular building of the broadcasting operations center, which was completed in 1983 after five years of construction, the ZDF news broadcasts from Mainz were also broadcast from December 6, 1984. From the new news studio N, which had an area of around 230 m² and was located directly in the rotunda on an upper floor, today and the heute-journal was broadcast. Both programs were now broadcast from a news studio, the heute-journal was shown to the right of the “news window” and the studio table of the heute programs. With the first broadcast today from the new ZDF broadcasting center in Mainz at 10:00 a.m., the transition from the former broadcasting center in Wiesbaden to Mainz was completed.
Today , from now on, presented itself with a new opening credits, also here with a direct view of the studio editor or newsreader in the news studio and with the simultaneous display of the today's lettering. The significant clock shortly before the start of the broadcasts today now appeared against the background of the ZDF broadcasting center. Also in the opening credits of today's broadcast you could briefly see the panorama windows of the new studio, which looked twice as wide due to the floor-to-ceiling mirrors, and were thus able to look at Christmas trees, which were festively illuminated during the Christmas season.
With the move to the broadcasting center in Mainz, new technical possibilities also opened up for today's broadcasts. An "electronic still image memory" (ESS) made it possible to see photos, tables, maps or name sub-fades as still images in today's broadcast. With the move, these images could now be produced faster and better and thus now also used more often in the news programs become. Just as indispensable was the further development of the WEBSY weather reporting system , which made it possible to better graphically display and forecast the weather with moving images.
From 30 June 1986 published today as well as the heute-journal for the first time in a 3-D -computeranimierten leader. The light blue background became a darker blue, the WEBSY weather reporting system was further improved and the weather presentation could be displayed even more clearly.
In the 1980s , the information offered by ZDF was expanded to include news and headlines from today's editorial team.
Today's offer in 1987 looked like this; When the ZDF broadcast the joint morning program, the first one today came at 10:00 a.m. and the last, more detailed 15-minute program at 13:00, which was broadcast jointly by ARD and ZDF. During the week, at 4:00 p.m., at 5:00 p.m., around 5:08 p.m. ( today from the federal states ) and after the main edition at 7:00 p.m. and the heute-journal in the night program, another one at different broadcast times today - edition at the end of broadcast. The headlines appeared on weekdays at around 4:33 p.m. (except Tuesdays) and around 6:15 p.m. during the commercial break.
The first issue of today came on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. , followed by This Week, a summary of the reports from the last week was shown here. The next edition was then seen at 5:00 p.m., then the main edition at 7:00 p.m. and around 9:45 p.m., as well as in the late program at the end of the broadcast, news from today's editorial team came again. On Sundays the first news program was shown at 12:45 p.m., another came at 5 p.m. and after the main edition there was the late edition at around 10 p.m. with sport on sunday, the sport reports were presented by a dedicated editor, as well also a last news program in the night program at the end of the broadcast.
1990s
From May 22, 1992, heute und heute-journal presented themselves in a new look. The blue background color introduced in 1978 has been replaced by a lime green color. The lettering of “today” and the “window” with its rounded edges remained unchanged, only the new ZDF logo was now also visible here. The moderation table became larger and now appeared to the audience in the form of a rectangular angle. From now on, the sports editor sat right next to the studio editor. If the more detailed coverage of the sport was previously separated, for example as with sport am sundag, the sport reports were now also presented in the 19 o'clock main edition by a separate editor.
Since December 1, 1992, a short commercial break has been shown between the news section from today at 7:00 p.m. and the weather report, which was introduced due to falling advertising income.
With the start of tonight on October 4, 1994, the information offered by ZDF was expanded. This approximately 15-minute night edition begins on weekdays between 11:45 p.m. and 12:45 a.m. and replaces the last five-minute edition of today's news in order to be able to report in more detail on the day's reports. The model for this was the private broadcaster RTL with the RTL Nachtjournal , which went on air at the beginning of the year and was quite successful at that time.
After only three years, the appearance of the news today was changed again on October 1, 1995. For the first time, the studio background has also been redesigned; the “message window” introduced in 1978 with the blue box disappeared and was replaced by a similar projection surface with a continuous gray bar. The messages were mounted on this bar in images and writing. Due to this change, the studio editor or news anchor could now be seen larger in the picture. It was now also possible to use more moving graphics and thus make complicated issues clearer.
On January 12, 1998, the weekday edition started at noon today , which offers a first long news overview from Monday to Friday at 12:00 (alternating weekly with the ARD Tagesschau). There is also a connection to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in each broadcast .
On August 15, 1998, the broadcasts today in the 19 o'clock main edition presented themselves for the first time in a new design. ZDF wanted the newscasts today heute-journal, noon today and tonight present a recognizable belong together News family. Therefore, from now on, all news programs were sent from a so-called "news desk", a shared semicircular news table. The news studio, which is now 280 m² in size, has therefore been converted and equipped with the latest technology. In the background there was now a comprehensive map of the world, which replaced the previous "window view". This world map also replaced the blue box. The graphics for the individual messages have become more striking and understandable, and 3D computer graphics can now also be used more often than before . The typical ZDF news colors blue-green have been adapted to the new look. Both the opening credits, which was opened today with a dynamic tracking shot, and the design have changed. The new news studio was now in a different angle of the room, so that the window front could no longer be seen in the background. This new news studio presented itself in a more modern way and, depending on the technical possibilities, more diverse. All ZDF news programs were broadcast from this studio in a slightly different form until July 17, 2009.
Along with the changes to the external appearance of today's broadcast, the ZDF wanted to bind TV viewers even closer to its information broadcasts. From now on, each issue of heute news was presented with a moderation trunk, i.e. with recurring faces. The 19 o'clock major issue was after departure of Katrin Müller and displacement of Brigitte Bastgen the afternoon program, now of the newly added Petra Gerster , Peter Hahne and continue by Claus Seibel spoken. From 1999 then by Klaus-Peter Siegloch as successor to Hahne.
Since April 12, 1999, the program today - in Europe from Monday to Friday at 4:00 p.m. - has another “focus” in the afternoon news programs. In this program, the editors reported on political, economic and cultural events in Europe. The day telecast with the sports block, which could be seen in this time slot available, will now be sent already at 15:00.
2000s
Since April 25, 2000, there has been another news broadcast in the afternoon in Germany with heute - . today - in Germany it is broadcast on weekdays at 2 p.m. The fifteen-minute program closes the information gap in the afternoon and shows, in addition to a news block, detailed reports and reports from Germany and the federal states . For a while, this issue was moderated by two editors, with one reading the day's news from around the world. Since 2009, today - in Germany, it has only been presented by one studio editor.
Today's editorial team has been sending news around the clock since October 23, 2000 .
In 2001, the news of today received another visual update. With the new ZDF logo, the studio today also presented itself in a mixture of blue and orange tones. The new logo was also integrated into the decoration. The news studio itself remained unchanged.
Since April 2002, today's main edition has been moderated by a duo at 7 p.m. This was initially presented by Petra Gerster and Steffen Seibert , alternating weekly . Claus Seibel was only a vacation replacement or stepped in if one of the two was prevented. In addition to Seibel, Caroline Hamann was occasionally seen as a substitute. In 2004, Seibel finally said goodbye to the screen after he last spoke the 7:00 p.m. edition in 2003 as a holiday replacement and was still in the afternoon editions until 2004. He was the longest-serving " editor in the studio (see below) " and with over 34 years of service, he was also the speaker with the longest screen presence in the German television landscape.
Since July 17, 2009, the “family” today consists of two new, virtual news studios that host all of the ZDF news programs. A new building with two large studios and control rooms was built especially for this purpose. The programs for the main program are produced in the 680 m² studio N1. The 330 m² studio N2 is primarily used for the production of today's 100 seconds for ZDFinfo and the Internet, as well as today's short night programs for the main program. To carry out precise, reproducible tracking shots, industrial robots were adapted to the requirements of television technology . The costs for the building and the technical equipment amounted to around 30 million euros. ZDF also produces the programs logo! as well as the midday magazine in the new studio until 2018 . Both the “live stream” available on the Internet and the “online stream” or podcast version of today's broadcasts differ from the “television version” that was previously broadcast or that was broadcast at the same time. Some posts - especially posts from the sports section - are either completely excluded or a waiting screen is displayed. In this case, the message: "For legal reasons, the current TV images may not be shown on the Internet."
2010s
In today's main edition on July 4, 2010, Steffen Seibert was last seen as studio editor; he moved to Berlin as a government spokesman . During this time until the beginning of September Barbara Hahlweg took over Seibert's broadcasts. Barbara Hahlweg has been representing ZDF's main news program since 2007, as has Ralph Szepanski , who has hosted the 7 p.m. edition several times since 2009 .
On July 31, 2010, the 7 pm main edition was presented with a revised intro. The most noticeable change is a look at the control room shortly before the broadcast. The intro was also used for the 5pm edition from August 3, 2010 to December 30, 2011 .
Since August 16, 2010, the broadcast time of the 3 p.m. edition has been only five minutes in favor of the new cooking program Topfgeldjäger . The sports block with the sports editor was initially moved to the midday show turntable Germany , and since January 2012 the sports news has been available regularly in the 19 o'clock main edition.
Since September 6, 2010, Matthias Fornoff has been presenting the news and topics of the day, alternating weekly with Petra Gerster, in today's main edition and is also the new editor-in-chief.
On September 7, 2011, as part of the redesign of the ZDF digital channel ZDFinfo , the program heute plus was broadcast for the first time. It was always broadcast on ZDFinfo at 7.30 p.m. on Fridays, following the 7 p.m. today edition. Moderated by Jessica Zahedi , Eric Marr or Yasmin Parvis , users were allowed to criticize the show via Skype and chat and ask why the editorial team structured the show in this way. The editor who had previously moderated the show sat in the studio, as well as other editors or those responsible for the show, and answered the questions directly. During the first heute plus , the head of the main editorial department “News” and deputy editor-in-chief of ZDF Elmar Theveßen answered questions from the audience in the studio. This also answered questions from viewers on the last broadcast on April 24, 2015, which meant that the format was discontinued.
As of January 2nd, 2012 some restructuring was done. Thus, on weekdays in the morning within the ARD broadcast week throughout instead of the Tagesschau own today -Expenditure sent at 9 am and 12 noon. With the new offer, ZDF would like to raise the profile of its news. To finance this, the 10am issue was canceled. Since then, the 12 o'clock edition is only ten minutes long and no longer contains a stock market report. Today's broadcast times have also been shortened by five minutes each - in Europe at 4 p.m., here the news block at the beginning of the program is omitted, and the 5 p.m. edition, where the weather report with the meteorologist was deleted at the end of the program. The night editions between 01:00 and 05:30 have been deleted without replacement. As a result of this restructuring, the appearance as well as opening and closing credits of the programs have been changed slightly today - at 2 p.m. in Germany and today - in Europe . The sports block has been an integral part of the 7 p.m. main edition since January 2012. In line with this, the intro of the main edition was slightly changed, so that the camera now also zooms in on the sports editor and he is presented by the studio editor at the beginning of the program. This intro was first used on January 5, 2012.
Since September 29, 2012, the 7 pm main edition has been presented in a new look with a different intro and a darker studio background. This should make the program appear more opulent and more visual. The camera positions were also changed to bring the presenter closer to the foreground. After a test phase, on December 3, 2012, the other broadcasts today were also converted to the new design, including tonight. On September 12, 2013, the heute-journal was adapted to this appearance. Today - in Germany and today - in Europe followed on November 3, 2014.
Since February 28, 2013, there has been a today app that is offered free of charge for Android and iOS in the respective app stores.
In today's main edition on August 4, 2014 Matthias Fornoff moderated for the last time as studio editor, as he had already taken over the management of the main editorial department “Politics and Current Affairs” on July 1, 2014. Barbara Hahlweg will take over the Fornoff broadcasts until September. During this time, Carsten Rüger will also act as moderator for the 7 p.m. edition. Thomas Heinrich was the new editor-in-chief today .
Christian Sievers has been the new studio editor since September 8, 2014, and alternates with Petra Gerster to moderate the 7pm today main edition.
On Monday, May 18, 2015, the show was replaced tonight by the new interactive news format heute + , which is intended to promote cross-media networking and also represents a further development of the former heute plus show by expanding the dialogue between viewers and news makers shall be. The test operation for the offer started on April 21, 2015 on social media. The individual program content is distributed online and via social media before it is broadcast on television. A younger target group is on this path of the news today are obtained family. The first broadcast will be live at 11 p.m. in the ZDFmediathek, after which the format will run - also live - on the former broadcasting slot for tonight in the linear television program.
On Saturday, July 4th, 2015, a uniform short message format, also geared towards the web, social media and TV, followed, which is present on ZDF, ZDFinfo, on heute.de and on other platforms. Today Xpress replaces the previously different today short formats: the heute messages in the ZDF morning magazine and ZDF midday magazine, today at 9 a.m. and today at 3 p.m. on weekdays, as well as in the morning, noon and late evening on the weekend. Today 100sec on ZDFinfo was replaced on 3rd July 2015 by heute Xpress .
2020s
Since March 25, 2020, the ZDF news service has appeared online under the name ZDFheute and a new logo. The website and the app were redesigned for this purpose. The offer on Instagram and YouTube was also expanded. In the course of 2020, the television programs will also be adapted to the new design. From summer 2020, online exclusive live streams are planned for ZDFheute . For this purpose, the late news heute + were discontinued, which had previously increasingly focused on online content and exclusive live streams.
The follow-up program today journal update is scheduled to start on September 7, 2020. The program is supposed to cover the topics of the day Monday to Friday around midnight with background reports, interviews and interviews. It is the responsibility of the editorial staff of heute journal , which is responsible for two programs in addition to the main program at 9:45 p.m.
particularities
Editor in the studio
In contrast to the Tagesschau , which was already firmly established at the time , whose news is read out by a speaker, the main edition of the ZDF news program today featured a journalist , ie an “editor in the studio”, from the start. This formulation was previously used as a text for moderation and moderation as well as introducing the presenter. While the newscaster only reads out the messages written by an editorial team and formulates them verbally, the “editor in the studio” writes his own texts and can also help determine the order of the messages. ZDF wanted the most important news program of the day, the main edition, not to simply read the news of the day from a newscaster, but to have a competent and expert journalist in the studio. A knowledgeable and competent editor in the studio could explain the current day's events to the television viewer, in its often complex and difficult-to-understand contexts, and ultimately also areas that are difficult to access, such as domestic and foreign policy or the economy, better and more understandable.
The sports reports are spoken in the main edition by an editor from the sports department, depending on the number and importance of the news.
In the event of important political and economic events or serious disasters, the ZDF editor- in- chief takes a position on a current topic in the news studio or an expert is interviewed.
While the main edition of the Today, the 13 o'clock edition (1981–1989) and Today from the Länder (1983–1997) was moderated by an “editor in the studio”, speakers were used in all other smaller editions today . In the respective programs, the reports of the day were read out by news anchors such as Gerhard Klarner or Heinz Wrobel , who, after years of activity, enjoyed great popularity with the television audience, thanks to their unmistakable voice and gestures.
From the mid- 1990s , the screen presence of the news anchors was increasingly restricted; ZDF wanted to focus more on journalistic experience and skills than on purely linguistic skills in all other editions of today . In all of today's editions , they wanted to bring the viewer closer to current affairs through competent editors and thus convey it more credibly.
Finally, the last speakers were banished to the late evening or night program. In 2003, the last ZDF news anchor Elmar Bartel said goodbye to the screen, and since then he can only be heard off- screen .
Weather forecast with meteorologist
Right from the start, the main issue of heute broadcast should explain the weather by a meteorologist . Here, too, they wanted to clearly distinguish themselves from the daily news by not just reading the weather from a speaker from the off, but by having a meteorologist from the German Weather Service explain the weather and the context in more detail to the viewer. The meteorologist stands in the news studio and uses the weather map to show the course of the weather - initially with chalk on a weather board, later with the help of the so-called blue box . If the meteorologist only came within today, shortly before the end of the broadcast, the weather forecast was available from 1965, and a few years later at the end of the main edition. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the weather forecast has followed the broadcast today after a short advertising block around 7:23 p.m. When broadcasting via 3sat , the advertising block is omitted, but the weather forecast is longer and includes Switzerland and Austria. In the shorter Sunday edition, the weather forecast is spoken by the studio editor.
For a long time, the detailed weather forecast was limited to the main edition, but for some years now the meteorologists have also been used in the ZDF morning magazine , the ZDF midday magazine and after the heute-journal .
First news anchor in the Federal Republic of Germany
On May 12, 1971, a woman , the then 32-year-old journalist Wibke Bruhns , read the news of the day for the first time in Germany, in the late edition of today's broadcast at 10:15 p.m. With this decision, ZDF was far ahead of ARD in the German television landscape of the 1970s , which was then dominated by men , because even in the "older" Tagesschau institution there were only male speakers up to that point. It was not until 1976 that a woman spoke to Dagmar Berghoff for the first time on the ARD's 8 p.m. news .
Bruhns could later be seen in the main edition of today at 7:45 p.m. At the end of 1972, however, she stopped speaking at ZDF and went to WDR . At ZDF, two years after Berghoff's Tagesschau debut, Ulrike von Möllendorff was the second news anchor in the station's history. On October 16, 1978, she welcomed the television viewers for the first time in today's main edition at 7:00 p.m. as the “editor in the studio”, was the first ever studio editor and until December 1990 spoke the news of the day for today's main edition. Ulrike von Möllendorff was also the only woman in the 19 o'clock main edition for a few years and in the 1980s she was the "figurehead" of the ZDF news.
Today plus
At the beginning of September 2011, the heute editorial team started an interactive news service under the name heute plus , which was broadcast weekly on Fridays at 7 p.m. on ZDFinfo following the current program. In an interactive online community, viewers were able to ask questions to the speakers and the editorial team, for example about the choice of topics. Selected viewers were initially switched directly to the studio via video telephony via Skype . On October 19, 2011, Oliver Welke (presenter of the heute-show ) was the “guest critic” for the entire program via Skype. This enabled viewers to ask him questions too. The format was discontinued with the last issue on April 24, 2015.
production
Since June 25, 2007, the 16: 9 widescreen format has been broadcast today .
The program has been produced since July 17, 2009 in a modern news building next to the ZDF broadcasting center by an editorial staff of around 100 who work around the clock in several shifts. The studio has a size of 700 m² and cost (including the construction of the new building) 30 million euros. While planning and broadcasting as well as moderation and short messages are designed in the headquarters, most of the feature films (standard length 1'10 "to 1'40") come from ZDF correspondents and reporters from home and abroad.
Since August 2, 2015, all productions from the ZDF news studio have been broadcast in native HD.
Theme melody
The beeps in the indicative of the program mean since 1985 the word “today” (···· · ·· - - ·) in the Morse alphabet ; since the redesign in 1998 they have been incorporated into the new intro music, which is why they no longer mean exactly "today".
Editions and editors
Current issues and editors
Monday to Friday
If the weekly joint information program for ARD and ZDF is produced in the morning by ZDF, the first Xpress editions for today will be broadcast every half hour between 5:30 and 8:30 a.m. (within the ZDF morning magazine ). This takes place on a weekly basis between ARD and ZDF.
If the morning program is produced by ARD, ZDF broadcasts the first news program of the day at 9 a.m., an issue of today Xpress .
The next issue of today with a length of 10 minutes will follow at 12 noon. Until 2009 this show was referred to as noon today. The editors of this issue usually also moderate the issue at 5 p.m.
At 1 p.m., either the rbb broadcasts the ARD midday magazine with a short news overview of the Tagesschau , or the ZDF broadcasts the ZDF midday magazine with the news overview today Xpress .
At 2 p.m. today follows - in Germany with a length of 15 minutes, which illuminates political, social and cultural events in Germany .
The next Xpress edition today will follow at 3 p.m.
At 4 p.m. at heute - in Europe, European topics will be reported.
At 5 p.m., another ten-minute issue of today follows with a switch to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange .
The today -Hauptausgabe of the day is sent at 19 o'clock and in addition to date and comprehensive news and circuits to correspondents, interviews, a regular sports block and a weather forecast with ZDF meteorologists at the end of the broadcast.
The heute journal is usually broadcast at 9:45 p.m. and is 30 minutes long. In addition to the main news items of the day, this magazine issue also includes more detailed reports with analyzes and interviews, a news block with stock market news and sports reports as well as a weather forecast with meteorologists at the end of the program.
Between 11:45 p.m. and 1 a.m., background information was also reported in the detailed magazine heute + until June 19, 2020 . On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 p.m., a live stream that was distributed via the ZDFmediathek and social media was also devoted to a key topic with a guest. The audience had the opportunity to participate in the discussion by means of comments. This stream did not come from the news studio, but from a small studio in the editorial office. Until September 4, 2020, Xpress will run temporarily today on this broadcast slot . After that, the follow-up program should start today journal update .
In the night program, short programs from today's editorial team were broadcast between 1:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. until the end of 2011 . The night editions were originally read by editors directly from a desk in the editorial office and without films. Later a small provisional stage was built in the middle of the editorial office. Recently, however, the programs have been spoken from the regular news studio, including short films and weather forecasts. No permanent moderators were used, but an editor present.
| Airtime | today edition | length | regular moderators | Substitute moderators |
| 05: 30-08: 30 every half hour | today Xpress (within the morning magazine) | 2-3 min | Eric Marr (since 2015), Karsten Pachollek (since 2015), Pinar Tanrikolu (since 2015), Jessica Zahedi (since 2015), Aline Abboud (since 2016), Maja Weber (since 2016), Christopher Wehrmann (since 2016) | Kay-Sölve Richter (since 2015), Carsten Rüger (since 2015), Ralph Szepanski (since 2015), Christina von Ungern-Sternberg (since 2017) |
| 9 am | today Xpress | 5 min | ||
| 12:00 o'clock | today | 10 min | Brigitte Bastgen (since 1998), Carsten Rüger (since 2005), Kay-Sölve Richter (since 2011), Christina von Ungern-Sternberg (since 2012) | Barbara Hahlweg (since 1998), Ralph Szepanski (since 2003), Mitri Sirin (since 2009), Maja Weber (since 2016), Christopher Wehrmann (since 2016) |
| 13:00 'O clock | today Xpress (within the midday magazine) | 2-3 min | see 05:30 | |
| 14:00 clock | today - in Germany | 15 minutes | Ralph Szepanski (since 2002), Yve Fehring (since 2012) | Kay-Sölve Richter (since 2011), Carsten Rüger (since 2011) |
| 3:00 p.m. | today Xpress | 5 min | see 05:30 | |
| 4:00 p.m. | today - in Europe | 10 min | Andreas Klinner (2002–2005; since 2007), Jasmin Hekmati (since 2009), Julia Theres Held (since 2012) | Antje Pieper (since 2014) |
| 17:00 o'clock | today | 10 min | see 12:00 | |
| 7:00 p.m. | today | 20 min | Petra Gerster (since 1998), Christian Sievers (since 2014) | Barbara Hahlweg (since 2007) |
| 9.45 p.m. (as a rule) | News block in the heute journal | 30 min | Gundula Gause (since 1993), Heinz Wolf (since 1997) | Kay-Sölve Richter (since 2010) |
| 11:45 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. | today Xpress | 5 min | see 05:30 | |
Saturdays and Sundays
On Saturday, today's first Xpress broadcast will be broadcast at 8:45 a.m., followed by other issues at 10:25 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 3:15 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., followed by the 7:00 p.m. Main edition and the heute-journal (mostly at 10:45 pm with a length of only 15 minutes). A last late edition of today's Xpress is usually broadcast at 12:25 a.m. to the current sports studio.
On Sunday, the first Xpress issue today will be broadcast at 9:00 a.m. In the morning at 11:45 a.m. in front of the ZDF television garden and around 2:45 p.m., further editions follow. At 5:00 p.m. there is a ten-minute broadcast today . The length of the main edition at 7:00 p.m. is also only ten minutes long. This is followed by the heute-journal at 9:45 p.m. and then at around 12:15 a.m. the last late edition of today's Xpress .
- Weekend moderators: Aline Abboud , Andreas Klinner , Eric Marr , Karsten Pachollek , Kay-Sölve Richter , Carsten Rüger , Mitri Sirin , Ralph Szepanski , Pinar Tanrikolu , Christina von Ungern-Sternberg , Maja Weber , Christopher Wehrmann , Heinz Wolf , Jessica Zahedi
today news on other channels
Several issues of Today's Xpress are shown irregularly over the day on the digital channel ZDFinfo. The main edition of heute news at 7 p.m. will also be broadcast on 3sat . There is also a more detailed weather forecast for Germany, Switzerland and Austria (the latter two were read off-screen by meteorologists in the early years). The heute-journal is also broadcast on the Phoenix channel . A special feature here is the sign language that is displayed in a small window at the top right.
Remarks
- Occasionally the 7 p.m. main edition is slightly postponed or shortened due to live broadcasts of sporting events such as soccer , the Olympic Games or cycling . On the other hand, on the 3sat station, a full-length Today program is usually broadcast at 7 p.m. In the event of time overlaps, Barbara Hahlweg or Ralph Szepanski will moderate .
- Since May 26th, 2009 there has also been a satire show on ZDF called heute-show . Here selected reports and messages are processed and shown in a humorous way.
- Officially starts today - in Europe at 4:00 p.m. In fact, the show usually starts at 3:58 p.m.
Overview of all current editors sorted by year of entry
| Moderator | Started | comment |
|---|---|---|
| Brigitte Bastgen | 1990 | |
| Gundula Gause | 1993 | since 1989 already as a spokeswoman for ZDF |
| Heinz Wolf | 1997 | since 1990 already as a speaker at ZDF |
| Petra Gerster | 1998 | |
| Barbara Hahlweg | 1998 | |
| Ralph Szepanski | 2002 | |
| Kay-Sölve Richter | 2005 | |
| Yve Fehring | 2005 | |
| Carsten Rüger | 2005 | |
| Andreas Klinner | 2007 | also as early as 2002–2005 |
| Jasmine Hekmati | 2009 | |
| Mitri Sirin | 2009 | |
| Eric Marr | 2011 | |
| Jessica Zahedi | 2011 | |
| Julia Theres hero | 2012 | |
| Christina von Ungern-Sternberg | 2012 | |
| Christian Sievers | 2014 | also as early as 1998–2000 |
| Antje Pieper | 2014 | |
| Pinar Tanrikolu | 2014 | |
| Karsten Pachollek | 2015 | |
| Maja Weber | 2016 | |
| Aline Abboud | 2016 | |
| Christopher Wehrmann | 2016 | |
| Hanna Zimmermann | 2018 | |
| Nazan Gökdemir | 2020 | |
| Wulf Schmiese | 2020 |
Discontinued issues
The joint morning program of ARD and ZDF began on January 2, 1981 (Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.). In addition to the 10 o'clock issue , at the end of the joint broadcast, another show today was added to the program at 1 p.m., alternating weekly with the Tagesschau . This edition, like the main edition, was presented by an editor in the studio at 7 p.m. , unlike in the other editions, where mainly speakers were used. The 1 p.m. edition was 15 minutes long and was the first in-depth news broadcast of the day. It was broadcast on weekdays until 1989. The ZDF midday magazine replaced the 1 p.m. program on October 2, 1989 .
The news bar “From the countries”, which previously ran within the turntable and from 1982 in tele-illustrated , became from April 5, 1983 today from the countries . In this weekday issue , the main focus of the news was on political events in the federal states. An editor in the studio also reported on economic or cultural topics in a condensed and compact form, with short films . The approximately 10-minute edition ran until 1991 directly after the 5 p.m.-today program , later again within the ZDF pre-evening magazines länderjournal and ZDF-Abendmagazin . The last broadcast was on June 15, 1997.
From April 12, 1999 to August 13, 2010, at 3 p.m. today's - Sport was broadcast. In addition to a small overview of the news, current sports news was the focus of this issue. Before 1999, the sports block was read out at 4 p.m. in the broadcast today . Since August 16, 2010, the broadcast time of the 3 p.m. edition has been only five minutes in favor of the new cooking program Topfgeldjäger . The sports block with the sports editor was initially moved to the midday show turntable Germany , and since January 2012 the sports news has been available regularly in the 19 o'clock main edition .
From the end of 1998 to December 30th, 2011 at 5 p.m. today's weather was broadcast. The special feature of this issue was a detailed weather report integrated into the broadcast with a meteorologist from the ZDF weather department at the end of the broadcast. In addition to the well-known ZDF meteorologists such as Inge Niedek and Gunther Tiersch , the forecast also moderated faces that would otherwise not appear on the evening after the 7 p.m. today edition, such as Tarik El-Kabbani . As part of the restructuring in 2012, the 5 p.m. edition was shortened by five minutes, which meant that the weather report with the meteorologist was canceled.
| today edition | from | to | Airtime | main emphasis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| today | 1981 | 1989 | 13:00 'O clock | first detailed edition with the news of the day, spoken by an editor in the studio (alternating weekly with ARD - Tagesschau ) |
| today from the countries | 1983 | 1997 | around 5:08 pm (1988–1989: 5:03 pm) until 1991, then within the country journal and the ZDF evening magazine | Politics, economy and culture from the federal states |
| today at noon | 1998 | 2009 | 12:00 o'clock | first detailed edition with the news of the day and a live link to the Frankfurt stock exchange floor (alternating weekly with the ARD Tagesschau) |
| today - sport | 1999 | 2010 | 3:00 p.m. | Sports news with a sports editor |
| today - weather | 1998 | 2011 | 17:00 o'clock | detailed weather report with meteorologists at the end of the broadcast |
| tonight | 1994 | 2015 | between 11:45 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. | last detailed edition with the news of the day and background information |
| today + | 2015 | 2020 | between 11:45 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. | last detailed edition with background information and online exclusive live streams before the broadcast, which were dedicated to a main topic |
Former studio editors of the 7pm show (main edition)
Former editors / moderators of other today issues
| Editor / moderator | Started | Exit | today edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anja Charlet | 1995 | 2013 | (1995–2001; news block in heute-journal ), (2001–2003; tonight ), (2003–2013; today noon / today news in ZDF-Mittagsmagazin ), (2007–2011; today - in Germany ), ( 2007-2013, until 2011 by substitute; 3/4/5 pm edition) |
| Peter Hahne | 1998 | 1998 | 3/4/5 p.m. edition |
| Katrin Müller | 1998 | 1998 | 3/4/5 p.m. edition |
| Claus Seibel | 1998 | 2004 | 3 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 5 p.m. edition (2000–2002; today noon / today news in the ZDF midday magazine) |
| Christian Sievers | 1998 | 1999 | Today noon / today news in the ZDF lunch magazine, 3/4/5 p.m. edition |
| Harald Hamm | 1999 | 2000 | Today noon / today news in the ZDF lunch magazine (2000; 3/4/5 p.m. edition) |
| Kristina Hansen | 1999 | 2000 | today - in Europe |
| Peter Kunz | 1999 | 2000 | today - in Europe |
| Carsten Thurau | 1999 | 2001 | today - in Europe |
| Henner lifting dispute | 1999 | 2007 | today - in Germany, 3/4/5 pm edition (1999-2003; today noon / today news in the ZDF lunch magazine) |
| Cathleen Themel | 2000 | 2001 | Today news in the ZDF morning magazine / morning editions |
| Dagmar Henning | 2000 | 2000 | today - in Germany |
| Thomas Kausch | 2000 | 2004 | today - in Germany, tonight |
| Claudia Kruger | 2000 | 2000 | Night editions |
| Stephan Kulle | 2000 | 2003 | Today news in the ZDF morning magazine / morning editions |
| Claudia Rüggeberg | 2000 | 2003 | Today noon / today news in the ZDF Mittagsmagazin, 3/4/5 p.m. edition (2001–2003; today - in Germany) |
| Martin Leutke | 2000 | 2009 | Today news in the ZDF morning magazine / morning editions |
| Valerie Haller | 2000 | 2014 | Today noon / today news in the ZDF lunch magazine, 3/4/5 p.m. edition (2011; today - in Germany) |
| Caroline Hamann | 2001 | 2005 | today - in Germany (2001–2003, 2005; 3/4/5 p.m. edition), (2001–2002; today noon / today news in the ZDF Mittagsmagazin), (2001–2002; news block in heute- journal) |
| Hülya Özkan | 2001 | 2012 | today - in Europe |
| Eva Schmidt | 2002 | 2003 | Today news in the ZDF morning magazine / morning editions |
| Susana Santina | 2002 | 2010 | (2002–2003; night editions), (2004–2010; heute news in the ZDF morning magazine / morning editions) |
| Yvonne Ransbach | 2003 | 2004 | Today news in the ZDF morning magazine / morning editions |
| Constanze Polaschek | 2004 | 2009 | Night editions |
| Andreas Wunn | 2005 | 2007 | today - in Europe |
| Annika de Buhr | 2005 | 2009 | tonight, today noon / today news in the ZDF midday magazine |
| Norms Odenthal | 2005 | 2016 | heute-Nachrichten in ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 12/3/4 / 5pm edition, late editions (2005–2015; tonight), (2013–2016 substitute: today - in Germany), (2015–2016; today Xpress ) |
| Andrea Gries | 2006 | 2016 | today - in Europe |
| Dunja Hayali | 2007 | 2010 | today - in Germany, news block in the heute-journal (2008–2010 substitute: 3/4/5 pm edition) |
| Ina Bergmann | 2007 | 2013 | Today Mittag / heute-Nachrichten in ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 3/4 / 5pm edition (2007–2011; today - in Germany), (2011–2013; tonight) |
| Franziska Fischer | 2009 | 2016 | Today Mittag / heute-Nachrichten in ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 3/4/5 pm edition (2010–2016; today - in Germany), (2015–2016; today Xpress) |
| Yasmin Parvis | 2009 | 2016 | Late editions, (2015-2016; now Xpress) |
| Natalie Steger | 2013 | 2014 | today - in Europe |
| Tim Niedernolte | 2014 | 2014 | Today news in the ZDF morning magazine / 9 o'clock edition, late editions |
| Catherine Vogel | 2014 | 2015 | Tonight, heute-Nachrichten in the ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 12/3 / 5pm edition, late editions |
| Eva-Maria Lemke | 2015 | 2018 | today + (2016 representative: today Xpress) |
| Daniel Brockerhoff | 2015 | 2020 | today + |
| Lisa Mittrücker | 2017 | 2017 | today - in Germany (representative) |
annotation
Until the end of 2011, one editor moderated the ZDF broadcasting weeks on weekdays at noon today , and another editor presented the issues at 3, 4 and 5 p.m. Since 2012, only one editor has been moderating the editions between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. and the news block in the 4 p.m. edition today - since then it has been omitted in Europe .
Former editors in the studio of the 1 p.m. show (January 2, 1981 - September 30, 1989)
| Editor in the studio | Started | Exit |
|---|---|---|
| Christina Ellgaard (from 1983; Grothe-Wessler) | 1981 | 1989 |
| Volker Jelaffke | 1981 | 1984 |
| Gabriele von Ketelhodt-Kraiker | 1981 | 1983 |
| Selina Riefenstahl | 1981 | 1989 |
| Axel Rückert | 1981 | 1987 |
| Reinhold calm | 1981 | 1985 |
| Peter Schieffer | 1983 | 1985 |
| Peter Zwick | 1984 | 1984 |
| Christian Sier | 1985 | 1989 |
| Susanne Conrad | 1986 | 1989 |
| Karlo Malmedie | 1989 | 1989 |
Former editors in the studio "heute aus den Länder" (April 5, 1983 - June 15, 1997)
| Editor in the studio | Started | Exit |
|---|---|---|
| Ingolf Falkenstein | 1983 | 1984 |
| Walter Mischo | 1983 | 1992 |
| Claudia Pörings (1985–1989; Brackmann) | 1983 | 1995 |
| Susanne Rieschel-Kaiser | 1983 | 1991 |
| Heather mirror | 1983 | 1984 |
| Veronika Neukum | 1985 | 1987 |
| Beate Rudolph-Schroers | 1985 | 1991 |
| Gilbert Mugge | 1988 | 1991 |
| Thomas Schreiner | 1988 | 1989 |
| Simone Standl | 1989 | 1992 |
| Liesel Meyer-Hermann | 1992 | 1994 |
| Hülya Özkan-Bellut | 1992 | 1995 |
| Heinz Wolf | 1993 | 1994 |
| Petra Neubauer | 1994 | 1995 |
| Brigitte Bastgen | 1996 | 1997 |
| Peter Hahne | 1996 | 1997 |
| Katrin Müller | 1996 | 1997 |
| Claus Seibel | 1996 | 1997 |
speaker
Current Speaker - Off
| speaker | Started | On / off |
|---|---|---|
| Elmar Bartel | 1989 | On (until 2003) / Off |
Former speakers - On (until 2003) and Off
| speaker | Started | Exit | On / off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jürgen Gewald | 1963 | On | |
| Wolfgang Behrendt † | 1963 | 1983 | On / off |
| Heinz Wrobel † | 1963 1975 |
1972 1992 |
On (later also Off) |
| Jochen Breiter † | 1963 | 1973 | On |
| Wim Thoelke † | 1963 | 1963 | On |
| Siegfried Andrich | 1963 | 1994 | Off (later also On) |
| Theo Hoefer | 1963 | 1986 | Off |
| Gerhard Klarner † | 1963 | 1989 | Off (from 1973 also On) |
| Karl-Heinz Merz | 1968 | 1970 | Off |
| Karl-Friedrich Liebau | 1969 | 1970 | Off |
| Claus Seibel | 1970 | 1973 | On |
| Werner Schmidt | 1970 | 1974 | On |
| Wibke Bruhns † | 1971 | 1972 | On |
| Hubertus Petroll | 1983 | 2000 | On / off |
| Bodo G. Toussaint | 1985 | 2002 | On / off |
| Hans-Jürgen Jensen | 1986 | 1991 | On / off |
| Mady Riehl , (from 1989; Riehl-Schedlich) | 1986 | 1991 | On / off |
| Gundula Gause | 1989 | 1993 | On / off |
| Claudio Surland | 1989 | 2002 | On / off |
| Cordula mustard | 1990 | 1997 | On / off |
| Heinz Wolf | 1990 | 2000 | On / off |
| Ines Bleisch | 1992 | 1998 | On / off |
| André Schmidt | 1992 | 1993 | On / off |
| Angelika Wende | 1995 | 1997 | On / off |
| Britta Sander | 1997 | 1997 | On / off |
| Christian Sievers | 1997 | 1997 | On / off |
Meteorologists
Current meteorologists on and off
| meteorologist | Started | On / off | Weather output regularly | Weather forecast by proxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunther Tiersch | 1986 | On | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin , 19:00 today, heute-journal | |
| Katja Horneffer | 1993 | On | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 19:00 today, heute-journal | |
| Özden Terli | 2013 | On | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 19:00 today, heute-journal | |
| Christa Stipp | 2015 | On | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 19:00 today, heute-journal | |
|
Benjamin Stöwe (moderator) |
2015 | On | ZDF morning magazine, ZDF midday magazine | |
| Leonhard Adams | 1989 | Off | 1989-1996 also On | |
| Dieter Bayer | 1992 | Off | 1992-2005 also On | |
| Klaus Lessmann | 1993 | Off | ||
| Berit Bogs | 1996 | Off | ||
| Wolfgang Hönig | 2007 | Off |
Former meteorologists on and off
| meteorologist | Started | Exit | ON / Off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erwin Brandtner | 1963 | 1978 | |
| Albert Cappel | 1963 1981 |
1977 1988 |
|
| Kurt Cunze | 1963 | 1988 | |
| Hans Haarländer | 1963 1978 |
1976 1988 |
|
| Martin Teich † | 1963 | 1984 | |
| Karla ways | 1968 | 1993 | 1995–1997 only off |
| Wolfgang Thüne | 1971 | 1986 | |
| Ulrich Franz | 1974 | 1997 | 1997 only off |
| Wolfgang Terpitz | 1975 | 1988 | |
| Uwe Wesp | 1975 | 2007 | On |
| Dieter Walch | 1981 1997 |
1993 2008 |
|
| Ute Caraway | 1986 | 1987 | |
| Karl-Heinz Oberthier | 1986 | 1993 | |
| Inge Niedek | 1988 | 2015 | On |
| Anja Awolin | 1991 | 1995 | 1995 only off |
| Hans-Reiner Beckert | 1992 | 1992 | Off |
| Sabine Dutz | 1992 | 1993 | |
| Jürgen Reinecke | 1992 | 1996 | 1992–1993 only off |
| Lars Fiedler | 1996 | 1997 | Off |
| Susanne Sanchez | 1996 | 1998 | 1996 only off |
| Stefan Bender | 1997 | 2000 | Off |
| Alexander Lehmann | 1999 | 2000 | Off |
| Ben Wettervogel † | 2005 | 2014 | On |
| Tarik El-Kabbani | 2008 | 2013 | On |
| Elham Emami | 2008 | 2010 | On |
| Melanie Hoffmann | 2010 | 2017 | On |
| Sanaz Saleh-Ebrahimi | 2011 | 2012 |
Sports editors
Current Sports Editors
| Sports editor | Started | today edition |
|---|---|---|
| Norbert König | 1987 | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1989–1990, since 1995), 7:00 p.m. today, sport on sunday (1987–2000) |
| Thomas Skulski | 1992 | ZDF-Morgenmagazin , ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (since 2018) |
| Kristin Otto | 1995 | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 19:00 today, sport on sunday (1995-2000) |
| Rudi Cerne | 1996 | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (2005-2007, since 2009), 19:00 today |
| Sven Voss | 2007 | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 19:00 today |
| Katja Streso | 2010 | tonight (2010–2014, only for special sporting events ), ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (since 2014), 7:00 pm today (since 2015) |
| Alexander Ruda | 2011 | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (2011), 19:00 today ( substitute ) |
| Annika Zimmermann | 2014 | ZDF-Morgenmagazin, ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (since 2018) |
| Florian Zschiedrich | 2015 | ZDF-Morgenmagazin, ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (since 2018) |
| Norbert Lehmann | 2018 | 19:00 today |
Former sports editors
| Sports editor | Started | Exit | today edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klaus Angermann | 1978 | 1987 | sport on sunday |
| Arnim Basche | 1978 | 1990 | sport on sunday |
| Jochen Bouhs | 1978 | 1985 | sport on sunday |
| Eberhard Figgemeier † | 1978 | 1982 | sport on sunday |
| Rolf Kramer | 1978 1985 |
1982 1986 |
sport on sunday |
| Magdalena Müller † | 1978 | 1995 | sport on sunday, ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1989–1995), 19:00 today (1992–1995) |
| Volker Tietze | 1978 1985 |
1983 1986 |
sport on sunday |
| Oskar Wark † | 1978 | 1978 | sport on sunday |
| Norman White | 1978 | 1983 | sport on sunday |
| Hans Henn | 1979 | 1982 | sport on sunday |
| Sissy de Mas | 1979 | 2004 | sport on sunday (1979–2000), ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1992–2004), 19:00 today (1992–2004) |
| Herrmann Ohletz | 1979 1985 |
1983 1986 |
sport on sunday |
| Werner Humpert | 1982 | 1982 | sport on sunday |
| Harald Clausen | 1983 | 1984 | sport on sunday |
| Dagmar Höferova | 1983 | 1983 | sport on sunday |
| Peter Kaadtmann | 1983 | 1984 | sport on sunday |
| Christa Gierke | 1984 | 2006 | sport on sunday, 19:00 today (1992–2006) |
| Günter-Peter Ploog † | 1985 | 1991 | sport on sunday (1985–1989), ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1990–1991) |
| Doris Papperitz | 1986 | 1991 | sport on sunday |
| Thomas Wark | 1987 | 1990 | sport on sunday |
| Wolf-Dieter Poschmann | 1987 | 2016 | 19:00 today, sport on sunday (1987–2000), ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1991–1995, 2005–2007, 2009–2016) |
| Brigitte Bastgen | 1988 | 1989 | sport on sunday |
| Dieter Kürten | 1990 | 1990 | sport on sunday |
| Sabine Koehne | 1994 | 1996 | sport on sunday, 19:00 today, ZDF lunch magazine |
| Michael Antwerpes | 1992 | 1998 | sport on sunday, ZDF morning magazine (1992–1996), ZDF midday magazine (1996–1998) |
| Alexandra Muz | 2000 | 2003 | ZDF-Mittagsmagazin, 19:00 today |
| Jana Thiel † | 2000 | 2016 | ZDF morning magazine (2000-2004); ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (2004-2016), 19:00 today (2003-2016) |
| Jessy Wellmer | 2009 | 2014 | ZDF morning magazine |
| Katrin Müller-Hohenstein | 2011 | 2011 | 19:00 today |
literature
- Klaus Wehmaier: The history of ZDF. Part I: Origin and Development 1961 - 1966. also: Univ. Münster (Westphalia), Philos. Fak., Diss. 1979. v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-7758-0978-3 .
- Nicole Prüsse: The history of the ZDF (1967-1977). Part II: Consolidation, Enforcement and Modernization. LIT, 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3118-3 .
- Florian Kain: The history of ZDF 1977 to 1982. Part III, Nomos, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2523-9 .
- Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier : The television lexicon . Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-30124-6 .
- ZDF: ZDF Yearbook 1962–2008: Yearbook of the Second German Television, non-profit institution under public law, ZDF Mainz 1962–2008
Web links
- Official site of today
- Today in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanation rooms in today's studio herrmarkusstein.net, accessed on May 16, 2015
- ↑ zdf-jahrbuch.de ZDF, ZDF yearbook 2009
- ↑ dwdl.de DWDL, August 1, 2010
- ↑ More "today" news: ZDF remains with the reform of the morning program. In: Spiegel Online . December 9, 2011, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ berliner-zeitung.de Interview with Matthias Fornoff in the Berliner Zeitung, December 14, 2011
- ↑ ZDF starts Today Plus via Skype , accessed on September 27, 2011
- ↑ Reinhard Mohr: New "today" studio: Beam me up, Gundula! In: Spiegel Online . July 18, 2009, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Video heute plus from July 5, 2013 in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on July 12, 2013.
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