Jan Carpentier

Jan Carpentier (* 1954 in Potsdam ) is a German journalist and former television presenter .

Life

Carpentier made in Kleinmachnow High School and studied in Leipzig at the section Journalism . Then he was in Halle as a correspondent for the German Democratic Republic - newscast Current camera operates. From September 1989 he was a reporter and presenter on the youth program Elf 99 , where he wrote about the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, from the Politburo settlement in Wandlitz (which he and his team visited twice) and from, especially during the fall of the GDR the quarters of the Feliks Dzierzynski guard regiment of the Ministry for State Security in Berlin-Adlershof - located opposite the GDR television site.

He then went to Bonn to work as a correspondent for the German TV Broadcasting Corporation (DFF). After the DFF was liquidated, it was taken over by the ORB . At the same time he was working for the early edition of the Tagesschau . In 1993 he switched to the private television broadcaster VOX . He ended his work there when VOX changed its programming scheme from "event television" to "playback channel". Since 1997 he has been working as a freelance journalist, mainly for the ARD programs and especially for the rbb .

In the ZDF television film Deutschlandspiel (2000), Carpentier was played by the actor Tobias Langhoff . In the two-parter, the visit of the Elf-99 team to the Wandlitz settlement is retold.

Reports

His most famous reports include:

• Entry into Paradise , November 23, 1989 ("Wandlitz Reportage")
• News from Felix - News from the gray area , December 6, 1989 ("Stasi report")
• Open Sesame - National Security Staff Testify (December 7, 1989, visit to the Stasi headquarters in Normannenstrasse)
• Anton and Antonia

Web links

• January Carpentier in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shock report in the Bonzenviertel . someday
2. ↑ ^{a b} The career kink . In Berliner Zeitung , May 11, 2002