Peter Mezger (journalist)

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Peter Mezger (* 1944 ) is a German television journalist and TV correspondent for ARD in Tehran .

Career

Mezger studied history and political science in Munich and Göttingen . From 1970 he was a reporter for the BR's report Munich . From 1978 to 1983 he was ARD correspondent for Israel and Iran . In 1983 he set up the ARD studio in Istanbul and was a correspondent for Turkey and Iran until 1986 . 1986 to 1994 Mezger was ARD correspondent for Italy , the Vatican , Greece and Malta .

From 1996 to January 25, 2009 he was the presenter of Weltspiegel . Since then he has been an ARD correspondent in Iran again. After the presidential elections in Iran , he also reported for the ZDF morning magazine from Tehran. When the protests against the fake re-election of the Iranian president began in mid-2009, ARD had an office in Tehran and, unlike other television companies, was able to broadcast live almost every hour. For a long time, Peter Mezger was the only western correspondent in the God state. His live appearances in Tagesschau and Tagesthemen only come about because he works with a videophone . He is not allowed to take or send pictures from the streets, otherwise he would be harassed immediately by militias and revolutionary guards.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The History of the World Mirror ( Memento from December 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Morgenmagazin video : You can't fake that much (June 15, 2009)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 6, 2014. (offline)
  3. ^ Short biography of Peter Mezger . deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Accessed September 8, 2016
  4. ↑ ARD correspondent in a lonely post in Iran . focus.de. 10 January 2010
personal data
SURNAME Mezger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944