Knut Teske

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Knut Teske (born January 26, 1942 in Lüneburg ) is a German lawyer , journalist and author .

Live and act

After the early death of his mother, Teske came to live with his uncle Günter von Nordenskjöld's family in Sulingen in 1950 , especially since his father, Georg Teske, (Lieutenant Colonel of the Aviators) had emigrated to Canada. After graduating from high school in Sulingen in 1963, Teske studied law in Frankfurt, Berlin, Mainz and Bonn. In addition to his legal clerkship, he worked as a research assistant for the Bundestag members Otto Bittelmann and Günter von Nordenskjöld. After the 2nd state examination in 1974 he was with the Kreissparkasse Cologne.

On May 1, 1976, he joined the daily newspaper Die Welt as a journalist . KT was his abbreviation as a journalist. From 1977 he was editor, 1978 correspondent for legal questions at the constitutional court in Karlsruhe, from 1986 to 1993 head of the Hamburg editorial office.

After German reunification, he went to Berlin on June 1, 1993 with Die Welt as chief reporter. One after the other, he also took over the main editorial office , mixed work and reportage . As chief reporter between 1994 and 2002, the focus was on crisis and war reporting: from Haiti, Rwanda-Burundi, Pakistan to Afghanistan; from Northern Ireland via the Balkans, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Egypt, Congo to Mandela's South Africa and New York after September 11, 2001.

From 2002 to 2007 he was head of the Axel Springer School of Journalism and from May 1, 2010 to April 30, 2011 he was acting editor-in-chief of the newspaper Das Parlament . Between 2007 and 2010 he was again on the road as a reporter and commentator for Welt und Bild in crisis areas such as Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

When he retired in 2013, he moved back to Sulingen and wrote athletes' biographies. He has a daughter.

Outside employment

In addition to his professional activity, Knut Teske was a lecturer in management at the Hamburg University of Music from 1987 to 1993, from 1992 to 1994 moderator of the TV talk show MDR-Club in Halle ad Saale, from 2001 to 2008 member of the political talk group Faces of a Big City on TV Sender FAB and from 2006 to 2008 Vice-President of the German-Israeli Society (DIG) and Chairman of DIG in Hamburg.

Honors

  • 1988 Award of the "Theodor Wolff Prize" by the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers with a report about the beginning overthrow of Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Uwe Barschel.

Publications

  • 1997 as editor and biographer about Martin Lauer: "Living with hurdles". Vulkan Verlag, Berlin
  • 2007 biography of Armin Hary: "Runner of the Century". Verlag die Werkstatt - ISBN 978-3-89533-574-7
  • 2014 biography of Willi Holdorf: "The world stands still". Arete Verlag, Hildesheim - ISBN 978-3-942468-43-5

literature

  • City of Sulingen: Sulingen history and people , 2012, pages 202-204

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/diepholz/goldenes-abitur-jubilaeum-2961174.html
  2. ↑ fac: As a reporter, Knut Teske never forgot to be amazed. In: welt.de . January 24, 2002, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  3. ^ Friedrich Schorlemmer, pastor from Wittenberg :: Anger on Knut Teske . In: The time . No. 42/1992 ( online ).
  4. ↑ http://www.werkstatt-verlag.de/?q=taxonomy/term/97
  5. ↑ https://www.das-parlament.de/2011/10_11/Themenausgabe/33656438/312924
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bdzv.de

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personal data
SURNAME Teske, Knut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg