Volker Schwenck

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Volker Wolf-Rainer Schwenck (born July 17, 1967 in Tuttlingen ) is a German television journalist . Since January 2018 he has been working in the ARD capital studio in Berlin.

Life

Volker Schwenck grew up in Überlingen on Lake Constance . While studying German , Romance studies and philosophy at the University of Konstanz , he gained his first journalistic experience in the editorial offices of newspapers and various radio stations. Schwenck has been working for Südwestrundfunk since 1995 , initially at the local level as a radio editor at the SWF regional studio in Konstanz and then from 1997 in the television department at the Ravensburg regional studio . The regional was his trademark.

In 2002 he moved to the SWR headquarters in Stuttgart, where he initially worked on the production of the program Ländersache . He later worked in the editorial team of ARD-aktuell . From 2007 he worked as an ARD correspondent in Geneva , and ended four years later in order to return to Stuttgart as the editor-in-chief of the state political television program “On the matter of Baden-Württemberg”. Schwenck is regarded as a persistent researcher, which is how he made a name for himself on Lake Constance. During the plane crash in Überlingen in July 2002, he reported on the survivors of the 71 people who died and what had gone wrong with the Swiss airline at the time.

From the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2017, Volker Schwenck was entrusted with the management of the ARD studio in Cairo , after two reporting trips to North Africa in 2011 . In this role he reports for the Tagesschau from the Arab world , for example during the Syrian civil war and the 2014 Iraq crisis from the Kurdish regions and Sudan .

On the morning of April 19, 2016, he was denied entry to Turkey after landing in Istanbul . He was taken to a police station, which he was not allowed to leave. The exact reasons (there was a note on him) remained unknown to him until evening. On the evening of the same day, Schwenck did not travel further to the Turkish-Syrian border area as originally planned, but back to Cairo. Chancellor Merkel viewed the process with “a certain degree of concern”, while Vice Chancellor Gabriel called it a “problematic act”.

However, from mid-2016 onwards, Volker Schwenck continued to report from northern Iraq and about the battle for Mosul .

Since January 1, 2018, Volker Schwenck has been working as a journalist in the ARD capital office in Berlin. He is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Schwenck - CV ard-hauptstadtstudio.de, accessed on February 1, 2018
  2. ↑ a b SWR sends new director to the ARD studio in Cairo. ( Memento of May 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) SWR press release of December 20, 2012, accessed on August 13, 2014
  3. ↑ Entry ban for ARD correspondent: From Lake Constance to Cairo suedkurier.de, from April 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Tweet by Volker Schwenck from April 19, 2016
  5. ↑ "We must be able to travel to Turkey". Tagesschau , April 19, 2016, accessed on April 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ tagesschau.de: Iraq: The suffering of civilians in Mosul. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwenck, Volker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwenck, Volker Wolf-Rainer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuttlingen