Norbert Vojta
Norbert "Max-Josef" Vojta (born November 9, 1953 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , television producer , managing director and honorary professor .
Life
Vojta's father was the chief make-up artist at the Hamburg State Opera . His mother Käthe was an actress. He grew up in the opera world and was an extra at the opera for almost 30 years. His father died on April 1, 1973. His mother married the former Defense Minister Georg Leber in 1985 .
In 1971, at the age of 18, Vojta made his first tape interview in the men's solo at the Hamburg State Opera with the French pantomime Marcel Marceau , who staged Candide ( French Candide ou l'optimisme ) based on Voltaire . 1977 followed a two-year apprenticeship as a music publishing clerk at the Hamburg music publishers Dr. Hans Sikorski. There he came into contact with artists such as Rolf Zuckowski , Les Humphries and Jürgen Drews . In 1979 he was trained as a television set manager at Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg. As a senior production manager for television, he was jointly responsible for ARD crime scenes , TV entertainment shows and the customs investigator television series Schwarz Rot Gold , directed by Dieter Wedel, as well as for various live broadcasts in the current showroom . In 1982 he moved to the main radio department of North German Radio as an editor. There he was active as a journalist and presenter, including in the NDR traffic studio. During this time he was also works council of the North German Broadcasting Corporation. In 1984 he switched to NDR television. In its regional magazine Hamburger Journal he moderated as a TV reporter, shot TV reports and was, among other things, the NDR “ Weather Frog ” in the mid-1980s .
In 1988 he followed a call as "Editor m. b. s. A. “(with particularly difficult tasks) and head of department to Berlin for the local radio station RIAS . He moderated the forerunner of ARD / ZDF breakfast television on RIAS-TV with the moderators Claudia Schreiner-Seip and Nina Ruge . The borders opened on his birthday in 1989 and he was on duty at the Invalidenstrasse border crossing.
In 1990 he switched to Sat.1 as a senior editor , where he moderated the regional magazine Wir in Berlin and produced reports. As a Sat.1 correspondent, he conducted TV interviews with ministers and members of the first freely elected parliament in the GDR and with Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière . In this context, he got to know Angela Merkel in the East Berlin office of the Democratic Awakening Party (DA) , who worked as press spokeswoman for the chairman of the DA, Wolfgang Schnur . In 1991 a call to Axel Springer Verlag in Hamburg and Berlin followed. Vojta became chief reporter in the editor-in-chief of the Bild newspaper and personal representative of the editor-in-chief of Bild-Gesamt Hans-Hermann Tiedje . Here he wrote various page 1 stories about politicians and TV artists. He was also responsible for the “picture breakfast”.
Vojta interviewed the Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, for the Bild-Zeitung after the 1990 attack on him . He also accompanied Karl-Heinz Köpcke, the chief spokesman for the Tagesschau , with headlines and reports until Köpcke's death on September 30, 1991.
Afterwards he was a senior consultant at the consulting agency WMP Eurocom in Berlin.
In 1993 he switched to the editorial board of RTL television in Munich for the Gottschalk Late Night Show. There he invited politicians, CEOs and actors and accompanied them, including Heinz Rühmann , OW Fischer , Lauren Bacall , Ferdinand Piëch , Werner Michael Bahlsen and Dieter Zetsche .
In 1995 he went back to NDR television in the main department for show, television and fictional entertainment, where he acted as the editor in charge. He directed TV programs such as Wunderschöner Norden or the current showroom . In 2001 he became editor-in-chief at Filmreif TV GmbH and German Media Consult GmbH in Hamburg. He then founded his first company, the Business Communications Group, first as a GbR, then as a GmbH. From this the Vojta & Partner GmbH and Co. KG administration and media company was founded with Norbert Vojta as managing director. The main task was to develop and manage informative TV programs for the Internet for the internal communication of large companies (such as Tchibo).
On June 9, 2008, he fell into the track bed in Hamburg Dammtor station and was run over by an ICE . This was followed by an amputation of the left thigh and right foot. After hospital stays in St. Georg and the Boberg Accident Hospital , he lived in a Hamburg retirement home for six months at his request. In 2010 he took up his job again as managing director of his media company. Various appearances on TV talk shows followed.
On May 31, 2010 he was appointed honorary professor by the President of the Hamburg University of Music and Theater , Elmar Lampson , in accordance with Section 17 of the Hamburg University Act and his media company changed its name to Prof. Vojta & Partner GmbH and Co. KG .
He has been working for Axel Springer Verlag as an author and columnist since July 10, 2010. Every two weeks until August 20, 2011, he conducted interviews with personalities from business, politics, entertainment and sport for the northern German edition of the Bild newspaper. Since September 18, 2011 he has been conducting interviews for the northern German edition of Welt and Welt am Sonntag, and since July 23, 2017 also for the federal edition of Welt am Sonntag. He stopped writing for the world and the world on Sunday after 204 interviews on July 16, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Kundler: RIAS Berlin, A radio station in a divided city. In: Herbert Kundler (Ed.): ISBN 978-3-496-02536-8 .
- ↑ Mark Bittner, Marco Zitzow: ICE departs from Norbert Vojta Bein. In: Bild.de . July 10, 2008, accessed October 29, 2016 .
- ^ Professor title for Norbert Vojta. In: welt.de . June 1, 2010, accessed October 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Norbert Vojta: THE WORLD "Vojta asks about" Axel Springer Verlag, January 28, 2017, accessed on February 7, 2017 .
- ^ Norbert Vojta: WELT am Sonntag. Vojta asks. Axel Springer Verlag, March 2, 2013, accessed on July 2, 2017 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vojta, Norbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vojta, Max-Josef (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and television producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg , Germany |