Peter Ellgaard
Peter Ellgaard (* 1940 in Berlin-Nikolassee ) is a German television journalist and presenter .
Life
Peter Ellgaard is the son of press draftsman and illustrator Helmuth Ellgaard and actress Lotte Berger . He grew up in Bad Tölz and Munich ; He passed the Abitur in 1961 at the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium Hamburg . He then became an officer candidate in the German Navy and completed his training in 1961, among other things, on the sailing training ship Gorch Fock , which he later reported on several times as a reporter. He resigned from the German Navy in 2000 as a reserve captain at sea .
Ellgaard studied German, theater studies and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . In 1965 he was the first editorial volunteer at ZDF . After he had worked in the newsroom, he was correspondent in Bonn main studio of the ZDF. In 1984 he became a foreign correspondent and reported from the US capital Washington, DC until 1987. After returning to Germany, he became deputy head of the ZDF studio in Bonn and took over its management in 1995.
In Bonn he moderated the political program Bonn directly . When the federal government and the German parliament moved to Berlin in 1999 , Ellgard and the editorial team moved to the capital in April 1999, the program Bonn direct was renamed to Berlin and also moderated by Ellgaard. At the end of 2001 Ellgaard retired. His successor as studio manager and moderator of directly Berlin joined Peter Frey at.
Awards
- 1993: Goldener Igel together with Klaus Walther for mine sweepers in the Gulf .
Web links
- Peter Ellgaard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biographical information about Ellgaard on the Bavarian TV website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph Kotsch: Bonn is filmed In: Berliner Zeitung online from April 13, 1999
- ↑ Berlin ZDF studio: "Resist the parties" - Peter Frey takes over the management In: Der Tagesspiegel online from August 28, 2001
- ↑ Winner of the Golden Hedgehog (PDF; 91 kB) on the website of the Association of Reservists of the Bundeswehr
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SURNAME | Ellgaard, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television journalist and presenter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Nikolassee |