Peter Schiwy

Peter Schiwy (born April 3, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer , journalist and former broadcast director .

After graduating from high school in 1955, Schiwy studied law, journalism and Eastern European history at the Free University of Berlin . From 1961 he then completed a traineeship at Axel Springer Verlag . 1973 Schiwy received his doctorate as Dr. jur., at the same time he worked as a journalist for several newspapers between 1963 and 1979. He was a newspaper correspondent in Berlin and for the GDR among others for the Hamburger Abendblatt , Handelsblatt and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Peter Schiwy (right) with colleagues Prof. Klaus Berg and Gernot Romann

In 1979 Schiwy became head of the East Politics department at RIAS Berlin , in 1981 editor-in-chief for television at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and in 1984 director of the RIAS. During his term of office, RIAS 2, which had previously only been broadcast by the hour and was largely a result of the takeover of the 1st program, was expanded into the independent full program of the youth wave rias 2 as one of the first format radios that is widely used today in radio. According to Schiwy, his success, the recognizable irritation of the GDR propaganda radio , which immediately reformatted DT64 as a helpless answer , [...] caused considerations to further strengthen the RIAS's newly gained radiance. One consequence of this was the start of RIAS-TV in 1987 as a breakfast television , which, however, was only conceived as an hourly program from the start. In that year Schiwy moved in the same position to the NDR in Hamburg, whose director he remained until 1991. He became a shareholder in the radio station 94.3 rs2 , which emerged from the privatization of rias 2, and was also managing director there between 1992 and 1994. Most recently, Schiwy was a partner in a law firm and honorary professor at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . Since June 2011 Peter Schiwy has been a member of the Foundation Council of the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Schiwy: New Paths: rias 2 and RIAS-TV. In: Manfred Rexin (Ed.): Radio Reminiscences. Memories of RIAS Berlin, Berlin 2002, p. 343.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Schiwy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Schiwy in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Peter Schiwy's website at pielsticker.de
• Portrait in the WELT from July 21, 2003