Siegfried Buschschlueter

Siegfried Buschschlüter (* 1942 ) is a German radio journalist .

Life

Buschschlüter studied from 1962 to 1966 at the International and Interpreting Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim (since September 2010 “Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies”) and graduated as a qualified interpreter in English and Spanish.

From 1967 to 1974 he worked as an editor in the German-language service of the BBC in London and then as an editor and presenter for the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main . From 1975 to 1982 he also reported for the BBC and the British newspapers The Guardian , The Observer and The Economist from Frankfurt. In 1982 he went as ARD - correspondent for the Iberian Peninsula to Madrid .

In 1988 he was appointed radio director of RIAS Berlin and in 1994 - after the merger of RIAS, DS Kultur and Deutschlandfunk - as the North American correspondent of Deutschlandradio in Washington, DC

On August 3, 2007, he left this position after 13 years and went into retirement. Since then he has lived in his new adopted home, Spain.

He is the author and co-author of eight editions of the daily broadcast background in DLF and other contributions.

Web links

• "Do it well, I'll miss you" - Farewell interview on Deutschlandfunk on August 3, 2007