Paul Spahn
![Paul Span-Willy (1914–2002) actor, news anchor, grave in the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Paul_Span-Willy_%281914%E2%80%932002%29.jpg/220px-Paul_Span-Willy_%281914%E2%80%932002%29.jpg)
Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Paul Emil Spahn (born June 30, 1914 , † March 2002 ) was a Swiss news anchor .
In 1942 Paul Spahn received his doctorate with a dissertation Die Filmtheater in der Schweiz at the University of Bern . Spahn was in the whole German-speaking Switzerland known as speaker of the evening news of the Swiss television between 1959 and 1985. His death was first publicized in January 2003, triggered by a spectator letter to the Tagesschau editorial team that had nothing to know. As a trained actor, Spahn also played in films, most recently in the 1988 film comedy Macao - The Back of the Sea by Clemens Klopfenstein . From 1971 to 1994 he was a full-time teacher at his own business school in Zurich.
Web links
- Paul Spahn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tagesschau spokesman Paul Spahn is dead. In: Swiss television . January 15, 2003 (video)
- Paul Spahn died. In: Klein Report . January 15, 2003
- Heiner Hug : Dinstinguished, swarmed around. In: Journal21 . June 24, 2014 (a tribute to the 100th birthday of Paul Spahn)
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SURNAME | Spahn, Paul |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spahn, Paul Emil (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss news anchor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1914 |
DATE OF DEATH | March 2002 |