Roger Horné
Roger Horné (born October 8, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 18, 2015 in S'Alqueria Blanca , Santanyí , Mallorca ) was a German journalist and television presenter .
Life
Horné, the son of a journalist, completed an apprenticeship as a housing manager after completing his school education in Bonn. He then turned to journalism and initially worked as a freelancer for various broadcasters , including RTL and ARD .
In parallel, he studied in Berlin at the Free University of Berlin in the Department of Communication Sciences and finished this study with the academic degree of lic. rer. publ. After graduating, he worked as a radio reporter for political magazine broadcasts for the ARD stations, including as a parliamentary journalist in Bonn, and later as an editor for radio and TV for Deutsche Welle . For the Rhineland-Palatinate private radio station RPR1 , he reported live about the hostage-taking of Gladbeck in August 1988 . In the television division of Deutsche Welle, he was responsible for the first co-productions with Cypriot and Egyptian television.
In addition, there were reports and features from various areas of crisis around the world, for example from the Middle East , Nicaragua , Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia and Cuba . He later went to Luxembourg to set up the private television station RTL plus and was jointly responsible for setting up the magazine editorial team there.
This was followed by posts abroad in London , Warsaw and Riga .
Since n-tv started broadcasting , he was active as a foreign correspondent for the station. As chief correspondent, he managed the Washington, DC studio for more than 13 years and was also responsible for the London, Moscow and Brussels studios .
In parallel to his radio and television activities, Horné wrote for print media such as Vorwärts , WAZ , NRZ , Westfalenpost and the US monthly magazine The Washingtonian . Horné was regularly included in the GIGA real program as a USA expert via telephone interview .
During his time as a foreign correspondent, Roger Horné was a guest on discussion panels on US television, for example on CNN , CNN International , CBS , Fox News and C-Span. This also led to numerous participations in discussions at US think tanks such as CSIS or Brookings .
He reported on the civil war in the Balkans , the Second Gulf War from Israel , the hostage-taking in the Japanese embassy in Lima , Peru , of seven G-8 summits , commented on 9/11 and the period that followed in New York and Washington, and the Third Gulf War from a Washington point of view. After his return to Germany , Roger Horné presented the program Guten Morgen NRW on the private broadcaster NRW.TV for a year from spring 2005 together with Uta Fußangel . Since September 2006 he has hosted the talk show Horné Live there from Monday to Friday . Top politicians, business leaders and representatives from science and culture were guests on the show. He also moderated the Horné goes Music format on NRW.TV.
Web links
- Jürgen Overkott: Roger Horné: Der Weltenbummler vom Rhein In: Der Westen , portal of the WAZ media group from June 6, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ "This is not a sport, this is war" . Interview with Roger Horné, taz, March 28, 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horné, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 2015 |
| Place of death | S'Alqueria Blanca , Santanyí , Mallorca |