Wolfgang Jäger (journalist)

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Wolfgang Jäger (born April 11, 1920 in Hamburg ; † July 7, 2012 there ) was a German journalist and professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

Live and act

Shortly after Wolfgang Jäger began studying literature, art history and film psychology, he was drafted into military service and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. After 1945 he continued his studies. In 1947 he was accepted into the radio school of the Northwest German Radio , the predecessor of NDR and WDR . Werner Baecker , Gerd Ruge , and Olaf von Wrangel were among his classmates . Jäger stayed with the station, was promoted to head of youth radio in 1950 and initiated, among other things, the live broadcast evening for young listeners . In 1954/55 he also took over the current news magazine Echo of the Day . In the 1960s he built the NDR's up-and-coming studio, which existed until 1971. From 1961 he held various management positions in radio: from 1961 to 1964 as deputy head of the Wort department, from 1964 to 1970 as head of the Wort department, from 1969 to April 30, 1972 as deputy program director for radio and then as its director.

Occasionally, Jäger made the headlines. For example, when he banned the presenter Wolfgang Hahn from the station for a short time because of an Erich Kästner satire that had not been discussed . Or when he supported the expansion of advertising and music carpets on radio with a structural reform .

After his retirement, Wolfgang Jäger taught voluntary cultural management as a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater until 2000 and gave lectures at the universities of Göttingen , Lüneburg and Leipzig University .

Web links

  • Biography in WHO's WHO online: [1]
  • NDR-Presseportal.de: NDR mourns Wolfgang Jäger [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Jäger, Wolfgang, p. 201 .
  2. ↑ radio silence for Hahn. Doesn't Erich Kästner belong in the morning magazine ? In: Die ZEIT No. 15, 1975.
  3. ↑ The program killers . In: Die ZEIT No. 34, 1980
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2012
Place of death Hamburg