Kai Gniffke
Kai Gniffke (born November 20, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German political scientist and journalist .
From 2006 to 2019 he was "First Editor-in-Chief" of ARD-aktuell and thus also the Tagesschau and Tagesthemen . He succeeded Bernhard Wabnitz , whose deputy he had previously been.
On May 23, 2019, Gniffke was elected in the second ballot to succeed Peter Boudgoust as director of Südwestrundfunk .
Life
He completed his Abitur in 1979 at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Daun . Gniffke did his doctorate after studying political science and went to SWR as a reporter , where he was responsible for deliveries to the main news from 1998. For a time he worked at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .
On May 23, 2019 Gniffke was elected director of the SWR and replaced Peter Boudgoust on September 1, 2019. On August 8, 2019, Gniffke's last working day was at ARD-aktuell.
He has been an honorary professor for journalism in digital transformation at the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences since 2019 .
Gniffke lives in Hamburg . He has been a member of the SPD since the early 1980s .
Web links
- Kai Gniffke ; Biography on the SWR website
- Posts by Kai Gniffke in the Tagesschau blog
- Kai Gniffke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kai Gniffke is the face behind the Tagesschau
Individual evidence
- ↑ Südwestrundfunk: Kai Gniffke is the new SWR director . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 23, 2019]).
- ↑ a b Website of the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ insight-online.de ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SWR director election - Kai Gniffke is the new SWR director. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ New SWR director: Kai Gniffke takes over the helm. Retrieved September 2, 2019 .
- ^ Prominent new professors at the Faculty of Media. In: hs-mittweida.de. August 20, 2019, accessed July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Rüdiger Soldt: Take two and not four . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 22, 2019 ( faz.net [accessed March 29, 2019]).
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Peter Boudgoust |
Director of Südwestrundfunk since 2019 |
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gniffke, Kai |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German editor-in-chief |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |