Ruth spear

Rut Speer , nee Rut Käfer ; since 1985 Rut Countess von Wuthenau-Hohenthurm (born February 24, 1936 in Hamburg-Harburg ; † September 22, 2019 ) was a German journalist and television presenter .

Life

After passing high school, Rut Speer studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Hamburg . During her studies she began her first journalistic work; she wrote television reviews for a youth magazine and edited features for the youth program of Radio Bremen .

At the end of 1960 Speer became an editorial and production assistant at the newly founded TV station Freies Fernsehen Gesellschaft ( FFG ) and was supposed to prepare a culture magazine, but the station was liquidated before it began broadcasting in 1961. From 1961 to 1963 she worked for the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main . In her first year as a freelancer, she was a reporter for the Hessenschau , where she was responsible for cultural reporting. In the second year she was a permanent editor of the Hessenschau .

In 1963 she switched to the newly founded Second German Television , where she initially worked as a reporter for the programs Cross Section and Aus den Länder . The ZDF advice and tabloid magazine Die Drehscheibe launched it in 1964 and gave this program its name. Speer was an editor and presenter there until 1975. In 1975 she moved to the main editorial office for the latest news and was editor and reporter for the heute program until the end of 1977 . At the beginning of 1978 she went to the newly founded heute-journal as an editor . In October 1978 she became editor in the studio for the main edition of the ZDF news program heute . Besides her former turntable colleague Ulrike von Möllendorff, she was the second woman to host the 7pm edition .

In 1987, Rut Speer said goodbye to working in front of the camera after a discussion had flared up two years beforehand about the then 49-year-old, “whether she was not too old for the screen”. She moved to the Domestic Policy Department, where she worked as an editor and reporter. Among other things, she reported on party congresses and shot reports, created portraits for the ZDF series Very Personal and designed and moderated the magazine Bilder aus Deutschland for 3sat . At the end of 1997, Rut Speer retired after almost 35 years at ZDF.

Private

Speer's first marriage to Gerd Winkler and his second marriage to Albert Speer junior . On March 4, 1985 she married Maximillian Graf von Wuthenau-Hohenthurm (1927–2011). She lived in Frankfurt am Main .

She died on September 22, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Preferably thin and young . In: The time . No. 26/1985 ( online ).
2. ↑ Obituary notice on faz.net, accessed on October 22, 2019