Wolfgang Knowledge Me

Wolfgang Wissensemich (born October 28, 1946 in Cologne ) is a German journalist and from 1991 to 2011 was editor-in-chief of television for Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR).

biography

Before graduating from high school, he wrote for a time as editor-in-chief of the school newspaper Splitter at the St. Nepomuk State High School (today the Nepomucenum Coesfeld High School ). After graduating from high school in 1966, he worked as a freelancer for the Allgemeine Zeitung, also in Coesfeld . Then he became a temporary officer in the Bundeswehr, u. a. as a press and youth officer . From 1970 to 1973 he worked as a political editor for the Westfälische Nachrichten in Münster. In 1973 he switched to the ddp news agency , becoming its editor-in-chief in 1979. From 1983 he worked for the Axel Springer Verlag in Bonn as an office manager a. a. active for Bild und Bild am Sonntag . Before he switched to television in 1991, he worked at Gruner + Jahr as chief correspondent. After a short time at Bayerischer Rundfunk , he went to the re-founded MDR in November 1991 and worked there as television editor-in-chief until his retirement in 2011.

Wolfgang Wissensemich is honorary professor at the University of Leipzig , where he has been teaching at the institute for communication and media studies since 2004. At the beginning of 2013 he founded the EIQ European Institute for Quality Journalism in Leipzig as a non-profit association. In 2019, the Bild reported that KNOWEMICH was active as a lobbyist for RT Deutsch and supported the previous internet broadcaster in its efforts to obtain a broadcast license. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 12, 2018, KNOWLEDGE denied that he had a job with Russia Today.

Award

In 1998, he and Sigmund Gottlieb received the Hans Klein Media Prize from the TV Academy Central Germany .

Web links

Short biography of Wolfgang Wissensemich (PDF, 16 KB) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ School magazine Splitter , issue 1/1965, imprint . Downloaded June 26, 2019
↑ MDR editor-in-chief is retiring. ( Memento of October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland of October 25, 2011, accessed April 29, 2013.
↑ Wolfgang Wissensemich at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig, accessed April 29, 2013
↑ Ex-MDR boss promotes Russian propaganda stations. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
↑ Personnel with question marks . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung (ed.): Sueddeutsche.de . January 10, 2019, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on August 14, 2020]).
↑ TV Academy Central Germany: Archive . The press office of the Technical University of Chemnitz announced at the beginning of 2001: “You could have put the 50,000 marks in your own pocket. Instead, Sigmund Gottlieb and Wolfgang Kennemich preferred to donate the money to a good cause: They donated the 'Gottlieb-Kennemich-Scholarship for Students from Eastern and Eastern Central Europe', which from now on goes to a student of business administration each year Focus on marketing is awarded to the universities of Chemnitz and Passau. " ( When two editors-in-chief" give away "fifty thousand marks ... , TU Chemnitz, press release, January 21, 2000)

personal data
SURNAME	Know me, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne

[1] School magazine Splitter , issue 1/1965, imprint . Downloaded June 26, 2019

[2] MDR editor-in-chief is retiring. ( Memento of October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland of October 25, 2011, accessed April 29, 2013.

[3] Wolfgang Wissensemich at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig, accessed April 29, 2013

[4] Ex-MDR boss promotes Russian propaganda stations. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .

[5] Personnel with question marks . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung (ed.): Sueddeutsche.de . January 10, 2019, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on August 14, 2020]).

[6] TV Academy Central Germany: Archive . The press office of the Technical University of Chemnitz announced at the beginning of 2001: “You could have put the 50,000 marks in your own pocket. Instead, Sigmund Gottlieb and Wolfgang Kennemich preferred to donate the money to a good cause: They donated the 'Gottlieb-Kennemich-Scholarship for Students from Eastern and Eastern Central Europe', which from now on goes to a student of business administration each year Focus on marketing is awarded to the universities of Chemnitz and Passau. " ( When two editors-in-chief" give away "fifty thousand marks ... , TU Chemnitz, press release, January 21, 2000)