Luc Leysen

Luc Leysen (born July 19, 1945 in Heist-op-den-Berg ; † January 23, 2020 ) was a Belgian journalist .

Life

Luc Leysen was the oldest of nine children. His father Bert Leysen was TV program director at NIR (now VRT ), who died in a car accident at the age of 39. He studied German and English at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and received his doctorate in 1969 with a thesis on PG Wodehouse with Herman Servotte .

Through a friend he met Dieter Strupp in 1967 at the Brussels office of ARD and worked on reports in Africa; The main task, however, was reporting on the EC, NATO and the Netherlands. From 1970 to 1977 he was Brussels correspondent for ABC Radio New York. In 1982 he was hired by WDR as a travel correspondent to West Africa. From 1987 to 1992 he was the Africa correspondent for ARD and head of the studio in Nairobi . From 1992 to 1995 he was an advisor to the Union des Radiodiffusions et Televisions Nationales d'Afrique (URTNA).

In 2004 he retired for health reasons. He was the director of the newly formed Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF), translating several books and writing articles.

honors and awards

• 1987 and 1990: German Journalist Prize for Development Policy
• 1997 and 1998: Press award "Community loan from Belgium"

Filmography

• Homesickness for the Tropics (ARD 1982)
• Poor world, rich world (documentary in 13 episodes; 1984–1987)
• Traveling into the past Looking for traces in former German colonies (documentation in 6 parts; 1996)

Web links

• Luc Leysen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entry on whoswho.de
• Luc Leysen Africa correspondent retired in conversation with Rudi Küffner (alpha forum of February 2, 2000)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Luc Leysen , Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 1, 2020
2. ↑ "I fell in love with Africa" ​​bulletin of the Leuven Germanists, Volume 31 (2018) No. 1 , KU Leuven, accessed on February 1, 2020