Klaus Wenger
Klaus Rudolf Wenger (born June 22, 1947 in Tübingen ; † May 10, 2012 in Strasbourg ) was a German journalist and historian . He was managing director of ARTE Germany and ARTE coordinator of ARD .
education
Klaus Wenger studied history , German literature and education in Bonn, Munich, Paris and Göttingen. With the work Prussia in the public opinion of France: 1815 - 1870 he was in 1976 in Göttingen to the Dr. phil. PhD. From 1976 to 1980 he was an assistant at the University of Paris III and from 1981 to 1984 consultant in the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft . At the same time, he was teaching at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in Paris and at the University of Frankfurt .
Professional background
From 1984 to 1991 Wenger was a senior editor at Südwestfunk . From 1991 he was employed by ARTE and initially headed the editorial department for documentation and documentary film . In 1995 he took over the management of ARTE Germany and the ARTE coordination of ARD.
More functions
Klaus Wenger was also:
- President of the "Europe, Culture et Citoyenneté" association for the promotion of cultural cooperation in the Upper Rhine metropolitan region
- Member of the board of the Franco-German Institute Ludwigsburg and the " Institute for Foreign Relations " in Stuttgart as well
- Board member of the " Théâtre national de Strasbourg " and the festival " Cinéma et Histoire " in Pessac / Bordeaux as well as member of the advisory board of the Ludwigsburg Film Academy
Focus of work
His main areas of work were:
- intercultural cooperation.
- Franco-German relations since 1870.
- the intercultural dialogue .
- television as a medium for a European public.
- Essays on the cultural medium of television
- Lectures and essays on the subject of "European Public"
Awards
- Should have received Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor , France), but died before that.
- Chevalier de l'ordre national du mérite (French Order of Merit)
- Prix Strasbourg
- Prix France-Allemagne
Awarded for his services to Franco-German cooperation.
Works
literature
- Prussia in French Public Opinion: 1815-1870 . Hansen-Schmidt, Göttingen, Frankfurt, Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-7881-1052-X (Göttingen building blocks for the science of history, vol. 50)
- Le Rhin, enjeu du siècle . Chapter in the book by Pierre Ayçoberry and Marc Ferro (eds.): Une histoire du Rhin . Ramsay, Paris 1981 (pages 255-290)
- Communication and media in the Federal Republic of Germany . Iudicium Verlag, o. Place 1989, ISBN 3-89129-028-4 . (Ed .: Robert Picht)
Film (editing)
- Histoire parallèle, 1989 - 1999 (Arte)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
Web links
- Klaus Wenger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Klaus Wenger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography of the Freiburg Cultural Office
- ARTE managing director Klaus Wenger is dead . Obituary by SWR of May 11, 2012, accessed on presseportal.de on May 11, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wenger, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wenger, Klaus Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, managing director of ARTE Germany and ARTE coordinator of ARD |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 2012 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |