Klaus Prömpers

Klaus Prömpers (born February 11, 1949 in Düsseldorf ) is a German journalist . He headed the ZDF studios in Vienna and New York .

Life

Prömpers studied economics in the social sciences and business administration at the University of Cologne . In 1976 he obtained a degree in economics and in 1978 a degree in business administration. He worked in the Catholic Student Youth (KSJ) and in the Bund New Germany (ND) and was Secretary General of the KSJ in Cologne . In 1973 he began his work as a freelance journalist, among others for the Rheinische Post and the WDR , which he continued after his studies.

From 1981 to 1989 Prömpers was a moderator and reporter at Deutschlandfunk in the “Informations am Morgen” editorial team in Cologne. In 1989 he moved to ZDF, where he was editor in the Bonn studio until July 1999, where he was directly responsible for the ZDF program Bonn . From August 1999 to January 2005 he was a security policy expert at the ZDF studio in Brussels . In February 2005 he moved to the ZDF studio in Vienna as a correspondent, where he took over the management from January 2008 to July 2011. He then headed the ZDF studio in New York City from July 2011 until he retired in September 2014.

Prömpers was a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics and was its spokesman for journalism and media policy until 2011.

Prömpers described US Catholics as "cancer cells in the church."

He lives in Vienna, is married and has two children.

Awards

• 2013: Media Prize of the RIAS (Category: 1. Television Award) for Christoph skirts Rath and Klaus Prömpers: Poor, rich America - on Park Avenue through New York

Publications

• Klaus Prömpers: This is how peace works. From people who wrestle for him. Bonifatius Verlag , Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-89710-638-3 .

Documentation (selection)

• The perfect war - high tech, plans, illusions. The digital battlefield. Two-part report by Scott Willis and Klaus Prömpers, D 2003, 90 min., First broadcast on ZDF on March 23 and 24, 2004
• Innocence lost - 10 years after 9/11. Report, ZDF-Studio New York, D 2011, 45 min., First broadcast on Phoenix on September 11, 2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Prömpers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Prömpers ; Biography at ZDF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christof Beckmann: Klaus Prömpers: So goes peace. In: www.augenblickmalonline.de. November 8, 2016, accessed February 4, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Wolfram Weimer: Who is Who of the Catholics: Edition 2013/2014. Pattloch, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-629-32056-8 , p. 1995, limited preview in the Google book search
3. ^ Beate Schneiderwind new ZdK spokeswoman , Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany
4. ↑ Klaus Prömpers , Herder Korrespondenz
5. ↑ Verena Trösters, Klaus Prömpers: Cancer cell in the church. In: domradio.de. September 12, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .  
6. ^ Klaus Prömpers: K (r) ampf ums Chancellery. In: derstandard.at. June 23, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .  
7. ↑ 50 Years of the John F. Kennedy Speech & RIAS Radio, Television and New Media Awards 2013 ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 24, 2013 
8. ↑ The perfect war (1/2) high-tech, plans, illusions. The digital battlefield ( Memento from May 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), ZDF.de
9. ^ German first broadcast: New York ten years after 9/11 , Phoenix Presseportal