Karlheinz Rudolph

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Karlheinz Rudolph (born September 6, 1923 in Neustadt an der Haardt ; † November 21, 1994 in Mainz ) was a German television journalist.

Life

Rudolph was born the son of a businessman and, after completing his schooling, took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the German Wehrmacht . After returning home from Soviet captivity , he attended the German School of Journalism in Aachen . In 1950 he became a reporter for Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden . In 1962 he moved to ZDF in Mainz, where he was one of the first men. First he was an editor at the ZDF news program today , then he worked in the main culture department. In 1964 he started the early-evening magazine Die Drehscheibe and also became its first editor-in-chief. In 1966, Karlheinz Rudolph was then head of the "internal politics editorial office", later chief reporter and then in November 1971 head of the main editorial office "news" at ZDF. He became known to the public primarily through the presentation of the news programs heute (1971–1977) and the newly founded heute-journal (1978–1983), which he himself helped develop. The ZDF annual review album - Pictures of a Year , which was broadcast from 1981 onwards , also went back to Rudolph. Karlheinz Rudolph became deputy editor-in-chief of ZDF in 1984. In 1987 he was adopted into retirement.

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SURNAME Rudolph, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1994
Place of death Mainz