Tom Buhrow

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Thomas "Tom" Buhrow (born September 29, 1958 in Troisdorf ) is a German journalist . Since July 1, 2013 he has been the director of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

biography

Tom Buhrow grew up in Siegburg and attended the Anno-Gymnasium there . From 1974 to 1976 he was an exchange student at a high school in the US state of Wisconsin . After graduating from high school in 1978, he worked for the Siegburg local editorial team of the Bonner General-Anzeiger and studied history , political science and regional studies at the University of Bonn . After graduating in 1984 ( MA ), he began an internship at WDR in 1985 . From 1986 he was editor , reporter and head of duty at the current hour and West 3 Aktuell, from 1992 editor and reporter at the Tagesschau .

In 1992/93 Tom Buhrow became a television correspondent at the ARD studio in Washington.

From January 2000 to January 2002 he worked as a television correspondent in the ARD studio in Paris , which he later took over. From February 1, 2002, his successor was Marion von Haaren . From July 1, 2002, he was director and television boss of the ARD studio in Washington .

On September 1, 2006, he succeeded Ulrich Wickert as moderator for the daily topics . He often ended the program with the words: “Those were the topics of the day today. Tomorrow is a new day."

For the radio station SWR3 he was heard in the series Tim asks Tom . There he explains complex facts from the topics of the day to "little Tim" in simple words on the phone.

In a guest appearance in the Kiel crime scene Borowski and the Free Fall (episode 846, first broadcast on October 14, 2012) Tom Buhrow played himself as the presenter of the day's topics.

On May 29, 2013, Tom Buhrow was elected director of West German Broadcasting. He received 41 of the 47 votes of the Broadcasting Council and on July 1, 2013, succeeded Monika Piel, who resigned for health reasons . With an annual salary of 367,232 euros, he is considered the top earner among artistic directors. In 2016 this was 399,000 euros gross per year.

He moderated his last edition of the Tagesthemen on June 16, 2013. The successor for the Tagesthemen was the television journalist Thomas Roth .

Memberships and functions

Buhrow is a member of the board and has been chairman of the supervisory board of Bavaria Film GmbH since February 1, 2015. He is also a member of the supervisory board of the ARD film subsidiary Degeto, the WDR Mediagroup and the ARD rights agency SportA and is deputy chairman of the board of directors of Deutschlandradio. He is the curator of the Civis Media Foundation and partner at Arte Germany and has a seat in the general assembly of Arte GEIE. In the 2013/2014 annual report of Atlantik-Brücke , he is mentioned as the keynote speaker for the outgoing US ambassador Murphy .

Controversy

In 2015, Tom Buhrow was criticized for the planned sale of parts of the WDR art collection .

In June 2009, the NDR media magazine "Zapp" reported on the additional income of TV presenters. Tom Buhrow's extensive and well-paid sideline activity as a speaker was also discussed. The magazine raised the question of whether journalists employed on public television can report independently when marketing their services as paid speakers. Der Spiegel reported on June 10, 2009 that senior editors of the ARD-aktuell editors wrote a letter asking the newsman to better examine future part-time jobs to see whether they could damage the reputation of the "Tagesthemen" and ARD-aktuell.

At the beginning of 2020, Buhrow came under fire because of an apology for a satirical video produced by WDR and the approval of its deletion. A children's choir sang the well-known nursery rhyme " My grandma drives a motorcycle in the chicken coop ", in which the text was changed and included lines like: "My grandma is an old environmental pig". After a " shitstorm " on the net, largely led by various right-wing movements, program managers arranged for the video to be deleted, which Buhrow approved. Buhrow publicly apologized for the satire after North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet joined the criticism of the satire video. At the beginning of January 2020, the WDR editorial team criticized the deletion of the satirical video as a “blatant violation of freedom of broadcasting ”. TV writers from several broadcasters followed this criticism. Buhrow commented on this in an extraordinary editorial meeting of the WDR on January 7, 2020. He explained that he had to react to the protest of the WDR regular audience. There was also a lot of support for Buhrow's apology, for example from Andreas Meyer-Lauber, the chairman of the Broadcasting Council.

Buhrow's salary of around 399,000 euros was critically questioned several times. In 2018, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung asked whether his salary could be reduced, as it was 100,000 euros above the salary of Chancellor Merkel. In 2020, Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff criticized Buhrow's salary as too high and demanded that Buhrow's salary be adjusted to the remuneration of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of around 214,000 euros.

Prizes and awards

  • 1997: 1st Prize from the RIAS Commission for Pioneer Square - Why America is Booming (co-author)
  • 1998: 1st Prize of the RIAS Commission for Oh God America (co-author)
  • 1999: Herbert Quandt Media Prize
  • 2009: Media Prize from the Steuben Schurz Society
  • 2010: Prize of the German Society for Speech Therapy eV for good language
  • 2011: Laughing official gray of the DBB Beamtenbund and collective bargaining union

Private

Buhrow with his then wife Sabine Stamer at the 1LIVE Krone 2014

Born in the Rhineland, he was married to his colleague Sabine Stamer , with whom he has two daughters. According to media reports, the couple split in April 2016.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bush cannot dampen his love for America. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn , November 30, 2005.
  2. ^ Tom Buhrow in the Munzinger archive .
  3. ↑ Tim asks Tom ( Memento from May 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Podcast at SWR3 .
  4. ↑ Tom Buhrow takes over as WDR director on July 1st. DWDL.de, June 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ Tom Buhrow wants to build bridges inwards and outwards. In: Tagesspiegel . May 29, 2013, accessed December 7, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Buhrow receives 367,232 euros a year. In: Spiegel Online. August 4, 2013, accessed December 7, 2014 .
  7. ↑ That's how much Germany's directors earn. In: FAZ.net . May 27, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Tom Buhrow says goodbye to the "topics of the day". In: Tagesspiegel. June 14, 2013, accessed December 7, 2014 .
  9. ^ Bavaria Film GmbH: Tom Buhrow takes over the chairmanship of the board of directors of Bavaria Film on February 1st, 2015. Bavaria press release on the press portal , December 3, 2014.
  10. ↑ Bavaria Film: Tom Buhrow new chairman of the supervisory board ( memento from June 24, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). Media correspondence, February 20, 2015.
  11. ^ Farewell dinner for SE Philip D. Murphy ( Memento from January 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Annual report 2013/14 of the Atlantik-Brücke , p. 028–033 (PDF, 30MB).
  12. ↑ WDR is having trouble with its art collection. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 10, 2015.
  13. ^ Art collection to be auctioned. In: FAZ, June 24, 2015.
  14. ↑ Additional income: How television presenters market their celebrities ( Memento from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). NDR , June 17, 2009.
  15. ^ "Tagesthemen" spokesman Tom Buhrow under pressure. In: Spiegel Online. June 20, 2009, accessed December 7, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Debate about "Umweltsau" video: WDR editors' representation criticizes director Buhrow , spiegel.de , January 4, 2020
  17. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier : "Blatant violation of freedom of broadcasting": WDR editors criticize Buhrow , uebermedien.de , January 3, 2020
  18. ^ Debate about the "Umweltsau" song: TV authors oppose WDR boss Buhrow , spiegel.de, January 6, 2020
  19. ^ How an apology brought WDR boss Buhrow into distress , welt.de , January 7, 2020
  20. ↑ dpa: ZEIT ONLINE | WDR director defends reaction to "Umweltsau" song. In: www.zeit.de. Zeit Online GmbH, January 24, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Dismissed correspondent sued WDR Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , 23 August 2018, accessed on 1 February 2020
  22. ↑ Haseloff calls WDR director Buhrow to waive salary on Tagesspiegel, January 29, 2020, accessed on February 1, 2020
  23. ↑ Steuben Schurz Media Prize - List of previous winners. Steuben Schurz Society.
  24. ↑ WDR boss and his wife Sabine | Marriage-off at Tom Buhrow! In: BILD.de . ( bild.de [accessed on October 11, 2016]).

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personal data
SURNAME Buhrow, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buhrow, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Troisdorf