Klaus Jürgen Haller

Klaus Jürgen Haller (born October 8, 1940 in Wuppertal ) is a German radio journalist .

Life

After studying German, history and philosophy in Cologne, Haller joined Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1966 and worked for WDR radio as a reporter, commentator and presenter. He became known to a wider audience through his unconventional moderation of the WDR 2 midday magazine . His introduction to the program “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, dear students!”, Which began at 12:05 p.m., became legendary. At the same time, Haller was chief reporter at the WDR radio studio in Bonn, responsible for foreign and security policy.

In addition, Haller worked in the years 1981/82, from 1988 to 1993 and from 1998 until his retirement in 2003 as a correspondent at the WDR / NDR radio studio in Washington, DC . a. for WDR , NDR as well as Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandfunk .

Haller is married with three children and lives near Washington.

In 1987 Haller received the media prize for language culture , awarded by the Society for German Language .

Fonts

• Words don't grow on trees, 99 commonplace terms on the trail , Düsseldorf: Econ-Verl. 1989 ISBN 3-430-13888-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WDR Print, December 2003 ( Memento from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )