Ingeborg Wurster

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Ingeborg Marianne Wurster (born August 12, 1931 in Heidelberg ; † January 6, 1999 in Mainz ) was a German journalist and television presenter .

Ingeborg Wurster, daughter of a foreman, graduated from high school in Heidelberg after the war. After training as a sound engineer in Nuremberg , she worked in this profession between 1953 and 1957 at Radio Bremen . She has never completed training as a journalist. As an autodidact, she could only fall back on what she was taught as a sound engineer in terms of journalistic work.

From 1957 to 1960 she worked for the first time as an author and speaker for the WDR . After brief assignments again at Radio Bremen and the Sender Freies Berlin , she went to ZDF in Mainz in 1962 and was initially responsible for the production of the series Zur Person in which Günter Gaus interviewed celebrities. In 1966 she was sent to Washington, DC , as a foreign correspondent , to New York City in 1970 and to Brussels in 1975 .

In 1979 she returned to Mainz, where she was the first woman to be part of the team of moderators for the Today Journal, founded in 1978 . In this capacity, she became known to a large audience.

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