Jürgen Lorenz (journalist)

Jürgen Lorenz (born April 13, 1929 in Hagen ) is a former German newspaper and television journalist .

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Lorenz, who came from Westphalia, began studying law after graduating from high school, but broke it off again after a short time and instead began an internship at a newspaper in 1948. In the following year, Lorenz worked for the first time as a political correspondent and from then on was employed in this position for several daily newspapers such as the Badische Neusten Nachrichten, the Schwäbische Zeitung and the Kieler Nachrichten.

From 1963 to 1975 Lorenz was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Press Conference close to the CDU , the last two years of which was its chairman. Since the broadcast on May 24, 1973, for several years in succession to Reinhard Appel , he has been in charge of the interview format journalists ask, broadcast on ZDF on Thursday at 9:15 p.m. - politicians respond with prominent politicians from Bonn.

Web links

• Jürgen Lorenz in the Internet Movie Database (English)