Werner Baecker (journalist)

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Werner Baecker together with the opera singer Felicia Weathers as presenters at a charity ball (1976)

Werner Baecker (born October 17, 1917 in Barmen ; † December 30, 1993 in Feldafing ) was a German television journalist .

Life

During the Second World War , Werner Baecker, as a member of Rommel's Africa Corps, became a prisoner of war in the United States in 1943 and came into contact with journalism there . That same year he began a correspondence course of journalism at the University of Oregon . In 1946 Baecker returned to Germany and until 1947 attended the radio school of the NWDR , the previous broadcaster of NDR and WDR . He started working for NWDR in 1948 as a political editor . In 1949 he came into contact with television for the first time and subsequently designed the program What is going on in Hamburg? Together with Jürgen Roland . .

In June 1953, Baecker commented on the television broadcast of the coronation celebrations of Elizabeth II from London . He was also responsible for the radio programs Umschau am Abend and the travel magazine Between Hamburg and Haiti . From 1953 to 1960 he directed Echo of the Day , a national and international news review. In 1957, Rüdiger Proske , head of regional programming at NDR television, entrusted him with the management of the entertainment TV program Die Aktuell Schaubude , which Baecker hosted from 1957 to 1960.

From 1960 he was NDR television correspondent in New York and took over the local ARD studio there. There he initially designed the series Treffpunkt New York . In 1965 he also managed to win a visit to… the singer and actress Fritzi Massary for an interview for his series . Before the Nazi era, Massary was one of the biggest stage stars in Berlin for more than 30 years , until she had to leave Germany in 1933 because of her Jewish origins.

From 1966 to 1985 Baecker was editor of the New York, New York series , which he also moderated. On December 3, 1985 he started his television series Treffpunkt Kino . As part of this program, he interviewed Hollywood greats such as the Laurel and Hardy inventor and producer Hal Roach and the Columbo actor Peter Falk, based on the model of Margret Dünser's VIP swing .

In 1992/93 Baecker went on a reading tour with the Osnabrück manager Axel Kaiser and moderated several galas and led through the program of Helmut Kohl's Federal Chancellor Festival.

Werner Baecker died of cancer in 1993 , after having been a guest at the Golden Camera award ceremony in Berlin shortly before . He is buried in Remscheid - Lennep .

The photographer and crime writer Heinz-Peter Baecker was a great-nephew of Werner Baecker.

Awards and honors

Works

  • New York, New York - Almost a Lifetime , 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Baecker, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1993
Place of death Feldafing