Manfred Denninger
Manfred Denninger (* 1939 ) is a German television pioneer.
From 1963 on, Denninger was initially a picture engineer and later a production engineer at ZDF. From 1976 on he was responsible for the takeover and further development of a graphics system that made it possible to bring data of various origins onto the screen without any time delay in animated graphics in German television standard without any technical detour. This system premiered in the 1976 federal election , where the extrapolation and election results were presented automatically for the first time. Until his retirement at the end of 2004, he had further developed this system in terms of hardware and software in accordance with the technical possibilities. He did about 150 election programs on site.
At the same time, from 1979 onwards, at the suggestion of Horst Schättle , Denninger developed a system in cooperation with the central telecommunications office of the former Deutsche Bundespost , in which large numbers of television viewers could cast their votes by phone call at the request of a moderator, the tele-dialogue , popularly also called TED . The graphics system could also display this data in an animated manner. Manfred Denninger has carried out more than 1000 programs, some in front of the camera. The best known are: ZDF dream film , Wetten, dass ..? , ZDF Hit Parade , Popular Hit Parade , Super Hit Parades, Grand Prix Events, Let yourself be surprised, What now ?, How would you decide? and many others. As this system was unique for many years, he also worked for ARD , ORF and Swiss television .
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| SURNAME | Denninger, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television pioneer, developed the TED system |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |