Rudolf Rohlinger
Rudolf Friedrich Rohlinger (born February 27, 1926 in Lingen (Ems) , † August 6, 2011 in Pulheim ) was a German television journalist and presenter.
Life
Rohlinger attended the Georgianum grammar school in his native Lingen (Ems) . In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and initially deployed as an air force helper. He later served in the air force and parachute troops . Towards the end of the war he suffered a wound.
After the war Rohlinger studied at the Universities of Münster and Glasgow . In Münster he temporarily acted as chairman of the local Socialist Student Union (SDS) . Rohlinger began his journalistic career as a trainee during the semester break at the Neue Ruhr Zeitung in Essen, where he worked as an editor in the politics department from 1950. From 1955 he worked for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . There he initially worked as an editor, later he became chief reporter and editor-in-chief.
In 1963, Rudolf Rohlinger moved to Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR) as an editor and reporter. From 1965 he gained particular fame as an election reporter and election analyst for the ARD . He was also known to a wide audience as a partner of Claus Hinrich Casdorff in the crossfire interviews of the ARD magazine Monitor . 1968 Rohlinger had a leading role as "The Reporter" in the television game November Criminal . From 1974 to 1977 Rohlinger was deputy editor-in-chief of WDR and head of the “Feature and Documentation” program group. From 1977 Rohlinger reported from New York as an ARD correspondent. After his return in 1981 he worked in the editorial team for “TV games and entertainment” at WDR.
On March 20, 1982, together with Carolin Reiber , he moderated the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest in Harrogate . From July 1982 he presented the entertainment program Rätselflug, produced by the then SDR , for 13 episodes .
Web links
- Rudolf Rohlinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Rudolf Rohlinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Piel on the death of Rudolf Rohlinger: role model for young journalists In: WDR press kit at presseportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Rudolf Rohlinger in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 8, 2011 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ↑ Former television journalist Rudolf Rohlinger died in westfaelische-nachrichten.de, accessed on August 8, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rohlinger, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rohlinger, Rudolf Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television journalist and presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lingen (Ems) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 2011 |
| Place of death | Pulheim |