Ulrich Berls

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Ulrich Berls

Ulrich Berls (* 1954 in Reutlingen ) is a German television journalist and publicist. From 2005 to 2015 he was head of the ZDF state studio in Bavaria. He has been a regular columnist in the debate magazine THE EUROPEAN since 2016 .

Life

From 1976 Berls studied political science , public law and German in Tübingen , Munich and London . In 1983 he received his doctorate at Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with Kurt Sontheimer to Dr. phil. During his studies he worked as a freelancer for various newspapers and magazines and as an intern at Bavaria Atelier GmbH for half a year .

His career at ZDF began in 1984 with an 18-month traineeship at the headquarters in Mainz-Lerchenberg . Berls then worked as an editor in various areas of the main newsroom and was then a reporter at the ZDF regional studio in Baden-Württemberg for two years. In 1990 he returned to the ZDF headquarters as program officer for program director Oswald Ring . From 1992 he was in the main editorial department for culture, initially editor-in-chief for literature and art, then for culture and society. Among other things, he had conversations with Kurt Sontheimer , Manfred Rommel Wilhelm Hennis and Alfred Grosser in the television series "Witnesses of the Century" , and he was also responsible for the ZDF series "Terra X".

In 1994 he left ZDF to help set up the Bavarian Academy for Television as a founding director.

On July 1, 2005, Berls returned to ZDF and took over the management of the Bavarian State Studio (succeeding Christoph Minhoff , who had switched to the Phoenix broadcaster as program manager ). He retired on July 1, 2015.

Berls is a member of the jury for the Bavarian TV Prize . He has been a member of the Munich Press Club since 1995 , and was also a member of the board until 2014. He is a member of the Presidium of the Bavarian Academy for Television (BAF).

Publications

In trade journals
  • A contentious liberal. On the 70th birthday of Kurt Sontheimer in: Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt , July 31, 1998
  • White-blue all green. The new anti-nuclear party CSU in: Cicero Online , June 16, 2011
  • Momos. The television critic Walter Jens in: Publizistik , Vierteljahresheft für Kommunikation, Heft 1–2 / 1984, pp. 63–74
  • Practiced province. Bavaria's special position has a long tradition. in: The European , Issue 4/2013, pp. 26–28
  • "From golden September to gray May - where is the CSU really." in: regierungsforschung.de, June 25, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: speakers and moderators )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.blm.de
  2. ↑ Dr. Ulrich Berls. Bavarian Academy for Television eV, accessed on October 27, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Ulrich Berl's new head of the ZDF studio in Munich. na presseportal, June 17, 2005, accessed October 27, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Ulrich Berls. Board member. Presseclub München eV, accessed on October 27, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Berls, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, head of the ZDF regional office in Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen