Peter Miroschnikoff

Peter Miroschnikoff (born February 25, 1942 in Danzig ) is a German journalist and was a long-time Central and Southeast European correspondent for ARD .

Life

His Russian-German family lived in Saint Petersburg before the October Revolution and later moved to Danzig, where Peter Miroschnikoff was born in 1942. At the beginning of 1945 the family had to flee again from the Red Army. His mother planned to leave the city with him and his two brothers on board the Wilhelm Gustloff , but by chance she caught a bus beforehand. Their flight to the west led them to Lower Saxony, where they finally settled in Hameln . Peter grew up there from then on. After graduating from high school, he went to Munich, where he studied sociology from 1961 to 1965 and also worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 1966 he was employed there as an editor and a year later he was sent to Greece as a special correspondent for ARD radio, where the military seized power. In 1970/71 the BR sent him to Vietnam as a correspondent for ARD to report on the Vietnam War . In 1973 he became a Middle East correspondent and reported on the Yom Kippur War , the Cyprus conflict between Greece and Turkey, and Iran (then still Persia).

In 1975 he switched from radio to television for Bayerischer Rundfunk as an editor. After three years in the BR headquarters in Munich, he was sent off again in 1978 as a foreign correspondent, this time to Vienna , with responsibility for Austria and Southeast Europe. During this time he reported for the German ARD audience about the death of Josip Broz Tito and the changes in socialist Yugoslavia , about the tightening dictatorship Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, the goulash communism in Hungary, as well as about the Austrian domestic politics that took place during this time from The end of the Kreisky era , the rise of Jörg Haider and, from 1986, the Waldheim affair . In 1987 he went back to Munich and became head of the editorial group for reports and current reports at BR . From this time he wrote numerous television reports about the fall of the Iron Curtain in Hungary, the mass exodus of GDR citizens on the occasion of the pan-European picnic near Sopron, the violent overthrow of the regime in Romania and the dramatic social situation there.

In 1996 Peter Miroschnikoff was sent again to Vienna, this time as head of the ARD foreign correspondent studio. He then reported on the Kosovo war , the reconstruction and the implementation of the Dayton Agreement in Bosnia . He was also interested in the fate of the German minorities in Romania ( Banat Swabians , Transylvanian Saxons , Landler ) and tried to make the German public aware of their needs. Deeply affected by the conditions in the Romanian orphanages after the fall of the Wall, he decided to adopt one of these children.

In addition to his reports from Eastern Europe, he became increasingly involved in the training of young journalists at BR, from 2001 on the occasion of the Afghanistan war on behalf of ARD in training reporters for crisis and war reporting in Hammelburg and from 2006 at the University of Television and Film Munich . In addition, he was committed to the Association of Foreign Press in Vienna, whose doyen and director he became in 2004. In 2005, Peter Miroschnikoff received the award from the Südosteuropa Gesellschaft as "Journalist of the Year" and the honor with the title of professor from the Austrian Federal President, Heinz Fischer .

He retired in 2007. His successor Susanne Glass took over the management of the ARD studio in Vienna and the foreign press association. Peter Miroschnikoff also holds seminars for prospective journalists at various training institutions, as well as for editors of the BR, Deutsche Welle and the Bavarian Academy for Television.

Web links

• Peter Miroschnikoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Youtube: Gaza - Vorhof zu Hölle , Bayerischer Rundfunk, 1988

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Siebenbürgische Zeitung: Peter Miroschnikoff: The culture of the Transylvanian Saxons move more into the public, June 13, 2010
2. ↑ Bavarian TV Academy: Peter Miroschnikoff
3. ^ University of Television and Film Munich: Prof. Peter Miroschnikoff
4. ^ Der Standard: Peter Miroschnikoff - Doyen of the German journalists in Vienna , January 23, 2004
5. ^ Association of the Foreign Press in Vienna: Honorary Members ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.