Manfred Jenke

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Manfred Jenke (born April 4, 1931 in Istanbul ; † March 4, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and publicist .

Life

Jenke was born in Turkey in 1931 as the son of a German businessman . He grew up in Berlin and after 1945 in Hanover. Jenke began his journalistic career with the daily newspaper Hannoversche Presse . He then reported for a year as a foreign correspondent from South Africa . From 1953 to 1956 he was editor of the union's own (DGB) weekly newspaper Welt der Arbeit in Cologne.

In 1956 he switched to the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR), where he became head of press and public relations. In 1963 he moderated the political magazine Panorama several times . From 1974 to 1993 he was radio director of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne . In addition, from 1976 to 1993 he was ARD representative at the Radio Program Commission of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). In addition, he was twice chairman of the ARD radio commission. From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of the radio council at Deutschlandradio .

Since 1998 he has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Academy for Journalism Hamburg .

Jenke was married and has two children.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • On the history of May 1st. Events of the historical development of May 1st . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1959.
  • Conspiracy from the right? A report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945 . Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1961.
  • The national right. Parties, politicians, publicists . Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1967.
  • Media for people. Texts 1963–1993 (= contributions to the culture and politics of the media, volume 1). Kohlhammer, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-17-013031-5 .
  • (Ed.) Nationwide and free of advertising. Ten years of DeutschlandRadio . Vistas, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89158-379-6 .

literature

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Former WDR radio director Manfred Jenke has died . dpa article at t-online.de , March 5, 2018, accessed on March 6, 2018.