Klaus Bresser

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Klaus Bresser at the Berlinale 2008

Klaus Bresser (born July 22, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German journalist .

Life

Bresser was born as the son of an engineer in Berlin and attended elementary schools in Berlin, Kalisz / Poland and finally in Aachen, where his parents had fled during the last years of the war. In 1956 he passed the Abitur at the Couven-Gymnasium in Aachen . During his school days there, he wrote articles for the Aachener Volkszeitung and the Aachener Nachrichten . After graduating from high school, in addition to studying German , sociology and theater studies in Cologne, he did an internship at the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. After graduating, he became the newspaper's chief reporter. In 1965 he went to the WDR , where 1971 he the monitor took -Redaktionsleitung. In 1973 he became head of the current editorial team and moderated various programs, including the focal point .

In December 1977 Bresser switched to ZDF , where he was significantly involved in the conception of the heute journal - first as a moderator and then as a director. He then worked as head of the domestic policy editorial team. On April 1, 1988, Bresser succeeded Reinhard Appel as editor-in-chief of ZDF. During his tenure, programs such as the ZDF-Morgenmagazin , the ZDF-Mittagsmagazin , Frontal and Bonn were introduced directly . On April 1, 2000, Bresser was replaced by Nikolaus Brender .

From September 2002 to November 2003 he hosted the talk in Berlin on n-tv . Bresser also published various books.

Bresser has been married for the second time since 1975.

Books

  • What now, dear voters? The German parties, their candidates and their goals 1994 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1994.
  • What now? About television, morality and journalists , Luchterhand-Verlag, Hamburg 1992.
  • Sunday talks , Knaur-Verlag, Munich 1998.

The caricatures of the year

View the edited volumes of caricatures about the caricatures by Fritz Berendt , Bernd Bruns , Nik Ebert , Rainer Hachfeld , Walter Hanel , Ernst Heidemann , Rolf Henn , Werner Koch , Thomas Körner , Waldemar Mandzel , Gerhard Mester , Til Mette , Felix Mussil , Gustav Peichl , Thomas Plassmann , Karl-Heinz Schönfeld , Berndt A. Skott , Karl Gerd Striepecke , Klaus Stuttmann , Jürgen Tomicek and Freimut Wössner the world affairs in the time after the collapse of the Eastern bloc, which Bresser summarizes in short sections in words.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Klaus Bresser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The polluter should be silent . manager-magazin.de, August 16, 2002.