Mathias Werth

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Mathias Werth (born September 23, 1958 in Hanover ) is a German television journalist .

Life

Growing up in East Westphalia, he worked as a freelancer for the Neue Westfälische Zeitung while still at school . After studying and doing community service, he joined Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1989 and initially worked as a freelance writer and film writer for the science and business editorial departments and, above all, for the ARD magazine “Monitor” with Klaus Bednarz .

After a stopover as one of the founding editors of the ARD morning magazine, he returned to “Monitor” in 1993 as an editor. When Sonia Mikich took over the editorial management of “Monitor” in 2002, Mathias Werth became deputy editor-in-chief.

From 1996 to 2006 he also worked regularly as a representative of the television correspondents in the ARD studio in Moscow , at the end of 2005 he was responsible for the “Current Television Documentation” (ARD / WDR), which he helped to design. In 2007 the young, socio-political television magazine “Realtime”, which he helped to develop, went on air on WDR television. Also in 2007 Mathias Werth became editor-in-chief of the documentary series “Die Story” (ARD / WDR) and stayed that way until autumn 2014. During this time, the series received 90 prizes and awards, including the Grimme Prize and the German TV Prize and the International Emmy Award. The series was also awarded the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Special Prize for TV Journalism.

From October 2014 Mathias Werth worked as a television correspondent in the ARD studio in Paris. Since October 2019 he has been responsible for documentaries again as an editor at WDR television. As a correspondent, author and editor of numerous documentaries and current special programs for ARD and WDR television, he has received several awards. He is a member of the jury for the award of the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for TV journalism.

Mathias Werth is divorced and has two grown daughters. He lives in Cologne.

Awards (selection)

Filmography (selection)

  • 1998: Tupolev's death flight (with Jo Angerer , ARD)
  • 1999: Balkans - Endless Violence (with Jo Angerer , ARD)
  • 2001: It started with a lie (with Jo Angerer , ARD)
  • 2004: The Window to the Kremlin (with Ellis Fröder , WDR)
  • 2009: They never came back (WDR)
  • 2012: From Kamen to Corleone (with Petra Reski and Julia Krittian , WDR / MDR)
  • 2015: Valley of Anger (ARD)
  • 2016: You can't get out of here (ARD)
  • 2017: France's agony of choice - a nation in conflict (Phoenix)
  • 2017: Marseille - Quartier Nord (Phoenix)
  • 2017: Corsica: Valley of Solitude (WDR)
  • 2018: Trans-Corsica (Phoenix)
  • 2018: Monsieur Macron - One year, one balance (with Michaela Wiegel and Kathrin Wildhagen, ARD)
  • 2018: The President - Macron moves France (with Michaela Wiegel and Kathrin Wildhagen, Phoenix)
  • 2018: Atom, mon Amour - France and nuclear energy (with Kathrin Wildhagen, ARD)
  • 2019: Atomkraft - Oui Merci (with Kathrin Wildhagen, Phoenix)