Jürgen Engert

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Jürgen Engert, moderating the ARD election broadcast on the 1990 Volkskammer election

Jürgen Engert (born January 17, 1936 in Dresden ; † August 22, 2021 ) was a German journalist . For many years he was the television editor-in-chief of the SFB and founding director of the ARD capital studio in Berlin .

Life

Engert grew up in Dresden and graduated from high school there in 1954. Because he was denied a place at university in the GDR , he went to live with relatives in Munich and enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University . After two semesters he moved to West Berlin and studied history, German and philosophy at the Free University . During his studies, Engert sat in on the West Berlin tabloid newspaper Der Abend. There he started as a political editor in 1961 and became its editor-in-chief in 1974. With the sale of the newspaper in 1980, Engert left the editorial office and turned to the medium of television. At the SFB he became head of the political department in 1983 and finally in 1987 television editor-in-chief. He also moderated the political magazine Kontraste on ARD from 1984 to 1998 . Engert was involved in founding the ARD capital studio as a founding director and remained its director until his retirement in 2001. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the TU Dresden and deputy chairman of the Deutsche Gesellschaft e. V. Engert died on August 22, 2021 at the age of 85.

factories

  • Screenplay for the feature film Once on Ku'damm and back based on a true story by Peter and Christa Gross-Feurich .
  • My God Berlin. From the Elbe to the Spree: A German way of life . Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-89850-044-6 .
  • as editor: Soldiers for Hitler. The book for the ARD series. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87134-366-8 .
  • as publisher: Home Front: Everyday Warfare in Germany 1939–1945. Book accompanying the large ARD television documentary. Nicolai, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87584-880-2 .
  • Contributions to: Bernd Kaufmann (Ed.): The German Unity: Errors and Detours. (= Edition Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation. Volume 8). Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940737-69-4 .
  • Walter Scheel: Memories and Insights. In conversation with Jürgen Engert. Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-89850-115-9 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journalist Jürgen Engert has died. Retrieved August 22, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Engert, Jürgen
SHORT DESCRIPTION German journalist
BIRTH DATE January 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 2021