Klaus Weidmann

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Klaus Weidmann (born December 5, 1958 in Bielefeld ) is a German television journalist and presenter .

Life and work

Klaus Weidmann studied political science, history and public law in Freiburg i.Br. and Montpellier. He did his doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg on European development policy in Africa and published numerous scientific articles on the connection between development aid and food crises. He organized and moderated international conferences on the relationship between Europe and the Third World.

In addition to his studies, Klaus Weidmann worked as a radio presenter and reporter for Südwestfunk , where he completed an internship in 1991 . Since 1992 he has been working for Südwestrundfunk as a political television journalist, mainly for ARD - until 1994 as a foreign reporter for Europamagazin , from 1994 to 1998 as editor for Report Baden-Baden , from 1998 to 2000 as head of the service at Report Mainz , from 2001 to 2005 as Head of ARD foreign Studio South America in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. Since then, Klaus Weidmann has worked for ARD as a television presenter, author, editor and foreign correspondent.

Since 2010 Klaus Weidmann has been part of the team of moderators at phoenix , the event and documentation channel of ARD and ZDF . There he regularly moderates the live political broadcasts phoenix on site and phoenix plus with studio guests and interlocutors on current political issues of the day. In the Phoenix Daily Talk he interviews prominent politicians and representatives of public life. In 2011/2012 he moderated the SWR Landesschau aktuell Rheinland-Pfalz .

Klaus Weidmann is the author of numerous ARD features and reports. For an ARD documentary he did interviews and a. with Michail Gorbatschow , Helmut Schmidt , Richard von Weizsäcker and Jacques Delors .

Klaus Weidmann has been a lecturer at the journalism seminar at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2016 ; previously he taught television journalism at the Faculty of Media and Information Technology at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences .

Awards

Documentation and reports (selection)

  • Brazil under Bolsonaro. Phoenix 2019
  • Out and about with the caterpillar pickers in South Africa. ARD 2017
  • The sect of torturers - German diplomats and the crimes of Colonia Dignidad. ARD 2016
  • Reconstruction after the earthquake in Haiti. ARD 2012
  • The fighter - Helmut Kohl in retrospect. ARD 2010
  • Kurt Beck, the homeland and the coup. SWR 2010
  • Paul Schäfer. The end of the Colonia Dignidad. SWR 2005
  • The slave seeker. Raid in the Brazilian rainforest. SWR 2004
  • Fight for survival in prison in La Paz. ARD 2004
  • Financial crash in Argentina. ARD 2001
  • German chemical weapons exports to Libya. ARD 1996
  • Balkan War and the Oil Mafia in Albania. ARD 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EC development aid in Africa: the case of Mali. On the connection between food crises, elites and development policy , in: Afrika Spectrum No. 2, pp. 179-195 (1990)
  2. ^ EC Agricultural Policy and Development Cooperation . Reports held at the international conferences of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation in Brussels, 3rd-11th March 1990
  3. ↑ Phoenix - the team
  4. ↑ Klaus Weidmann on the Phoenix channel on YouTube
  5. ↑ ARD program information April 6, 2012
  6. ↑ The fighter - Helmut Kohl in retrospect . ARD March 29, 2010
  7. ^ Vita Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  8. ↑ Portal Imprensa VI Prêmio Imprensa Embratel July 10, 2004
  9. ↑ Brazil under Bolsonaro . Phoenix Plus 2019
  10. ↑ Tagesschau video blog 2017
  11. ↑ The Sect of Torturers . ARD story in the first of 2016
  12. ^ Reconstruction in Haiti . ARD ua Weltspiegel 2012
  13. ↑ The Kohl Story . SWR 2010
  14. ↑ Kurt Beck, Home and the Putsch . SWR television RP 2010
  15. ↑ Paul Schäfer. The end of the Colonia Dignidad . SWR press portal April 27, 2005 ''
  16. ↑ The slave seeker . SWR press portal June 16, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Weidmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld