Jürgen Köster

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Jürgen Köster, CEO of the Press Club Hanover ;
2016 in front of the Hannover Congress Center

Jürgen Köster (* thirtieth November 1948 in Wuppertal ) is a German radio - journalist and - entrepreneurs .

Life

Jürgen Köster was already as a student and later as a student at the Saarland Radio (SR) for the radio program SR 1 Europawelle active while plus parallel law studied.

In 1985, Köster first became head of word at the privately operated Radio Schleswig-Holstein (R.SH) and in 1988 took over the management of radio at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) for the program NDR 1 Radio Niedersachsen, which was produced in the Lower Saxony state radio station . Within a few years he is said to have increased the number of listeners for the regionally shaped state program from formerly around 800,000 to an estimated 2.3 million listeners.

However, after the television journalist Lea Rosh took over the management of the radio house in Hanover in 1991 with the support of the later Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ), who was elected as the new Prime Minister of Lower Saxony at the time , Jürgen Köster, who the weekly newspaper Die Zeit attributed to the CDU at the time , titled his new boss as "[...] unprofessional and arrogant" and - quit.

In the same year 1992 Köster took over the program direction at the private radio broadcaster radio ffn in Lower Saxony .

Since the Axel Springer Prize was first awarded to young journalists in 1995, Köster has been a member of the award jury for radio and its speakers.

In 1996 Köster became a managing partner of Deutsches Rockradio , and from 2002 also in the company Heureka Radio in Hanover .

Jürgen Köster (right) in conversation with the organist Ulfert Smidt in the Marktkirche in Hanover in 2014

Köster, founder of Radio 21 , lives and works primarily in Garbsen . He is also chairman of the board of the Hannover Press Club , which awards the Leibniz-Ring-Hannover , endowed with 15,000 euros, every year .

Honors

  • On May 23, 2015 Jürgen Köster was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit by Prime Minister Stephan Weil .
  • On September 15, 2018, Wolfgang Illmer appointed Gran Canciller of the Order of Knights of the Brotherhood of Mudzborgh, Jürgen Köster the Knight of Honor of the Mudzborgh and awarded him the Mudzborgh Lion.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Köster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hits for Jürgen Köster in the commercial register on the moneyhouse.de page , last accessed on November 21, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Walther von La Roche , Axel Buchholz (ed.): Jürgen Köster (radio games) , in this: radio journalism. A manual for training and practice in radio (= journalistic practice ), 10th edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-02683-7 and ISBN 3-658-02683-9 , pp. 449f .; limited preview of google books
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Radio Jury ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the archiv.axel-springer-preis.de page , last accessed on November 21, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.axel-springer-preis.de
  4. ↑ a b c Heinrich Thies : There is a crackling noise in the Lower Saxony broadcasting house - Lea Rosh, the head of the facility, tries to assert herself: The dive began with the newcomer. In: The time of July 10, 1992
  5. ↑ a b Benjamin Irvin (responsible for content): Hans Blix enters himself in the city's Golden Book on the page garbsen.de from July 30, 2003, last accessed on November 21, 2016
  6. ↑ Compare the board (and imprint ) on the Press Club Hannover website, last accessed on November 21, 2016
  7. ↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery / Award of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (PDF file) from the stk-niederschsen.de page of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery
  8. ↑ Janik Marx: Ritterschlag für Medienmann ... , in: [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] from September 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Köster, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio journalist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal