Robert Hetkämper

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Robert Hetkämper (born August 9, 1949 in Gladbeck ) is a German journalist . From 2001 to August 2014 he was the director of the ARD studio in Singapore .

Robert Hetkämper

biography

Robert Hetkämper was born in Gladbeck in Westphalia in 1949 and grew up in the Ruhr area. After graduating from a natural science grammar school in Herten , he studied German , sociology and political science at the Free University of Berlin and Saarland University .

He started his journalistic career at a young age and worked for the Saarland broadcasting company and the Bavarian broadcasting company , among others .

In 1988 he became East Asia - correspondent and head of ARD Studios Tokyo . In addition to Japan , his reporting area also included the Philippines , North Korea , South Korea , Taiwan and the various island states of the Pacific . He held this position until 1992 before he switched to North German Broadcasting in Hamburg for three years . In 1995 he returned to Tokyo for another three years. From 1999 to 2001 he worked for ARD as a senior correspondent in Studio Washington before moving back to Asia.

From 2001 to August 2014 Robert Hetkämper was head of the ARD studio in Singapore. The reporting area includes Myanmar , Thailand , Laos , Cambodia , Vietnam , Malaysia , Singapore , the Philippines, Indonesia , Brunei , Papua New Guinea , Australia and New Zealand .

In August 2014 Robert Hetkämper reached the retirement age of 65 and retired. In the ARD series Weltreisen on July 5, 2014, under the title Faces of Asia - On the Road with Robert Hetkämper , he looked back on around 20 years as ARD's Asia correspondent.

Selection of his films

  • By train through Australia - from the Indian Ocean to the great deserts (part 1)
  • By train through Australia - From the Nullarbor Desert to the Pacific (Part 2)
  • Through Australia in legendary trains - Ghan and Overland
  • Take the train to the Great Barrier Reef - Australia's Sunlander Express
  • Beyond Bali - A sailing trip through Indonesia's east
  • The Mekong in 50 Boats - From Vietnam to Cambodia (Part 1)
  • The Mekong in 50 Boats - From Cambodia to Laos (Part 2)
  • The Mekong in 50 Boats - From Laos to Thailand (Part 3)
  • New Zealand by train
  • Trance, protest and ideals - on the move in Southeast Asia
  • With the Rhine steamer through Burma
  • Myanmar - Through the land of a thousand pagodas
  • Burma is booming (wdr-worldwide)
  • Faces of Asia from Myanmar (world travel)
  • In a motorhome through Western Australia (NDR)
  • New Zealand - A sailing trip around the South Island (NDR 2010)
  • Night express to Surabaya - By train across Indonesia's main island
  • The Arctic Ocean Adventure - By ship to Antarctica (NDR 2014)
  • The Philippines - A travel experience - By bus and boat through the other Asia (NDR 2017) Part 1: Jungle and volcanoes; Part 2: rice terraces and old town alleys
  • By train through Myanmar (NDR 2018) - 2 parts

Web links

Commons : Robert Hetkämper  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ daserste.de: Faces of Asia - On the way with Robert Hetkämper ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Video available until July 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hetkämper, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck