Jan Philipp Burgard

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Jan Philipp Burgard

Jan Philipp Burgard (* 1985 in Iserlohn ) is a German television journalist, presenter and book author. He is currently the USA correspondent and deputy head of the ARD studio in Washington.

Life and career as a journalist

Even during his school days he wrote for the local newspaper in his hometown, the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger. From 2004 he studied political science, modern history and public law in Bonn and at the Sorbonne in Paris. During his studies he wrote for newspapers and magazines such as the Bonner Generalanzeiger, Handelsblatt, Focus, Die Welt and Die Zeit.

As a producer in the ARD studio in Washington, Burgard experienced the rise of Barack Obama in 2008 and wrote his dissertation on his “election campaign of the century”. He received his PhD in 2011. After working for the ARD Tagesthemen and as a reporter for NDR and ZDF, he became the personal assistant to WDR director Tom Buhrow. In this role he was responsible for the innovation budget, among other things. In 2016 he moved to the Cologne editorial office of the Tagesschau. There Burgard reported on domestic issues and live on site on international news events such as the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels and the 2016 US presidential election.

USA correspondent

Jan Philipp Burgard during a live broadcast in front of the US Congress

In January 2017, Burgard succeeded Ingo Zamperoni as the ARD's USA correspondent. This makes Burgard the youngest ARD America correspondent of all time. In addition, he became deputy head of the ARD studio in Washington.

Moderator

Burgard also appears regularly as a moderator in the event, politics and documentation channel phoenix, presenting special programs on the US congressional elections or on US climate policy. Since February 2019, Burgard has also moderated the talk show he designed himself, "Mensch, amerika!" In it he speaks to well-known personalities (such as Austria's Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Federal Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer or the writer TC Boyle) about transatlantic relations. In addition to political backgrounds, Burgard attaches great importance to learning a lot about the people who make politics or who are affected by it.

author

As a book author, Burgard deals with the topics of politics, society and America. Most recently, Rowohlt Verlag published his book Ausgeträum, Amerika? On the move in a divided country that made it onto the SPIEGEL bestseller list.

Private

Burgard is married and has two daughters. As a journalist, he deals with the life stories of people. He himself was shaped by the sudden death of his father when he was only 15 years old. "That showed me that you shouldn't postpone your dreams too much into the future," he said on the WDR show "Kölner Treff".

Awards

Jan Philipp Burgard received the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award and the RIAS Media Prize 2018 for his journalistic work.

"Medium Magazin" selected him among the top 30 journalists under 30 in Germany.

The media magazine "Kress Pro" described Jan Philipp Burgard as an "exceptional journalistic talent" and chose him among the "25 movers and shakers of tomorrow who will shape the media industry in the future".

Publications

  • Learning to win from Obama or 'Yes, We Yawn!'? The election campaign of the century and the lessons for political communication in Germany. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6670-6 .
  • Do you still believe in love? Unexpected answers from Hannelore Elsner, Eckart von Hirschhausen, Michel Friedman, Sonya Kraus, Franz Müntefering, Roger Willemsen and many others (with Justus Bender). C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-10143-8
  • Moritz-Marco Schröder: Paths to the dream job of journalism. Germany's top journalists reveal their secrets of success. With a practical study guide. Solibro, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-932927-15-7 .
  • America sets the course. The superpower in transition (With Bodo Hombach). Lingen, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-945136-64-5 .
  • Dream over America? On the move in a divided country. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-63376-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iserlohner becomes a correspondent in Washington . ( ikz-online.de [accessed on August 28, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Burgard, Jan Philipp .: Learning to win from Obama or "Yes, We Yawn!"? : the election campaign of the century and the lessons for political communication in Germany . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6670-6 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Thiemann: The right hand of the artistic director - Jan Philipp Burgard . ( wp.de [accessed on August 28, 2018]).
  4. ^ ARD.de: ARD studios abroad. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Vanessa Seifert: He is the youngest correspondent in ARD history . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on August 28, 2018]).
  6. ↑ phoenix. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Burgard, Ausgeträumt, America? (Paperback) - Rowohlt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 29, 2018 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rowohlt.de
  8. ^ WDR television: Video "Kölner Treff - Comedian, Musical Star and USA Correspondent ..." - Kölner Treff. March 16, 2018, accessed on August 28, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ phoenix. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Top 30 to 30 - medium magazine. Retrieved on August 28, 2018 (German).
  11. ^ Jan Philipp Burgard becomes ARD correspondent in Washington . In: kress . ( kress.de [accessed on August 28, 2018]).
  12. ↑ 25 Makers of Tomorrow . In: kress . ( kress.de [accessed on August 28, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Burgard, Jan Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn