Walter Heinz (journalist)

Walter Heinz (born August 14, 1943 in Jägerndorf ; † August 7, 2016 ) was a German television journalist .

Walter Heinz studied from 1961 to 1967 at the Institute for International Relations in Moscow , where he received a diploma in political science and passed the state examination in Arabic. He then worked as a consultant for Arab countries in the GDR foreign ministry and finally with the German TV broadcaster (DFF) , the state television broadcaster of the GDR ; there he ran a foreign magazine and reported with many foreign reports.

In 1992 he switched to the Second German Television (ZDF) in Mainz , where he worked as an editor for the ZDF morning magazine. In 1995 he became the foreign correspondent in Moscow and in 1998 the Africa correspondent at the ZDF studio in Nairobi , where he was in charge from 1999 until his retirement in 2009.

He was best known for his reporting from the war zone in Chechnya . He has produced numerous reports and documentaries about Africa , including Ins wilde Herz Afrikas (2001), Dirty Shops (2002), Treck der Tuareg (2004) and Mission in Africa (2006). Most recently he shot the issue of the Nigerian metropolis Lagos - The Daily Miracle (2007) for the ZDF series Megacitys .

literature

• Rupert Neudeck : Approaching Africa: Neglected Continent; farewell to ZDF correspondent Walter Heinz , In: Funkkorrespondenz; (2010) 15, pp. 6-9

Web links

• "A great narrator who loved Africa" ​​/ ZDF editor-in-chief Peter Frey on the death of Walter Heinz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Portrait of Walter Heinz died ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2016 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. . Article from August 10, 2016 on newsroom.de , accessed on August 29, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Alexander Krei: "A great narrator who loved Africa". ZDF mourns longstanding Africa correspondents . Article from August 10, 2016 on dwdl.de , accessed on August 29, 2016.
3. ↑ approaching Africa: neglected continent; to say goodbye to ZDF correspondent Walter Heinz ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research , entry accessed on August 29, 2016.