Susanne Gelhard

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Susanne Gelhard (born October 30, 1957 in Mainz ) is a German journalist , reporter and foreign correspondent .

Life

Gelhard studied Slavic Studies , American Studies and Journalism at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . During a semester abroad she studied in Moscow .

Gelhard has been working for Second German Television since 1983 . She first completed a traineeship , then worked in the ZDF main city editorial department and co-moderator of heute-journal .

From 1989 to 1992 she was a correspondent for the ZDF studio in Vienna , then its director in 1992/1993. In this role she was responsible for reporting from a total of twelve countries in Central and Southeastern Europe . During this time, Gelhard reported extensively and ruthlessly for ZDF on the Balkan War and the political collapse of the former Yugoslavia . Gelhard presented harrowing images, including "monstrous images of war corpses", which raised the question of what kind of war reporting should be allowed on television.

Gelhard has received several awards for her reporting from Yugoslavia. In 1991 she received the Telestar from ZDF and ARD . In 1992 she received the Golden Gong for a report from the destroyed Vukovar . Gelhard summarized her journalistic experience and research in her book Ab heute ist Krieg. The bloody conflict in the former Yugoslavia (1992) together.

From 1994 to 1996 she was editor-in-chief of the news magazine auslandsjournal at ZDF . From 1997 to February 2002 she was the director of the ZDF studio in Warsaw . From July 2002, she succeeded Joachim Jauer as head of the ZDF regional studio in Berlin .

From January 2009 to March 2015 Gelhard headed the ZDF foreign studio in London . On April 1, 2015, she moved back to the ZDF broadcasting center in Mainz to work in the ZDFinfo , Society and Life program area as editor of the ZDFzeit series . On June 1, 2017, she took over the management of the ZDF regional studio Rhineland-Palatinate in Mainz.

Gelhard is married and has three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingeborg Wurster was alone among men for a long time in: The West from January 1, 2008
  2. ↑ The media perception of women in war ( memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Romy Fröhlich: War reporters from the point of view of communication studies in: Ulrich Albrecht / Jörg Becker (eds.): Media between war and peace . Series of publications by the Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK), Volume XXIX. Baden-Baden 2002. pp. 182-193; online at mediaculture-online @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmz-bw.de
  3. ^ War against women in: EMMA , September 1992
  4. ↑ Change of staff in the ZDF regional studio in Berlin / Susanne Gelhard succeeds Joachim Jauer as studio manager, press release of the ZDF from July 1, 2002
  5. ↑ ZDF director Dieter Stolte appoints four new studio managers in: Die WELT from August 30, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Gelhard, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, reporter and foreign correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz