Patrick Leclercq (journalist)

Patrick Gerard Leclercq (born January 21, 1950 in Baden-Baden ; † January 15, 2011 in Cairo ) was a German journalist and correspondent for the ARD for the Middle East .

Life

Patrick Leclercq, son of a German and a French, of the Parisian writer Luc Bérimont, studied at the Berlin Film Academy after attending high school . After dropping out of his studies, he began his journalistic career in 1973 as an editor and reporter at what was then Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart and worked as a freelancer in the local editorial office in Tübingen.

From 1982 he reported for the ARD as a special correspondent from the Middle East and was a reporter on the Lebanese civil war . In 1985 he became head of the SDR foreign editorial team. This was followed by stays abroad as a television correspondent for Southern Africa and from 1988 in Cairo for the Middle East. Leclercq reported in 1991 on the Second Gulf War from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait .

After his return in 1995 he took over the management of the TV / domestic politics division of ARD in 1996 and in 1999 became second editor-in-chief of ARD-aktuell , the central ARD newsroom (responsible for daily news and topics ) in Hamburg for Südwestrundfunk . From 2003 he was Weltspiegel presenter for SWR. From August 1, 2005 until he left due to illness in the summer of 2009, Leclercq was ARD's correspondent for the Middle East, based in Cairo.

His preferences included literature and films. He was fluent in English and French.

Patrick Leclercq had converted to Islam and married the Egyptian Iman Leclercq. The marriage has two children. He died as a result of longstanding cancer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XLVI. Edition 2007/08 (founded by Walter Habel - formerly Degeners who is it), Lübeck 2007, p. 791.
2. ^ Giessener Anzeiger from January 16, 2011.
3. ↑ ARD Middle East expert: "I am a Muslim". In: Focus of December 30, 2006, No. 1/2007, page 110.