He was one of the characterizing characters of public telecom in Germany: The television writer Fritz Pleitgen kicked the bucket at 84 years old.
Previous WDR chief Fritz Pleitgen is dead. Pleitgen kicked the bucket on Thursday at 84 years old, West German Telecom (WDR) reported on Friday in Cologne. Pleitgen had functioned as a writer at WDR starting around 1963 and was its chief from 1995 to 2007 - he was viewed as quite possibly of the most powerful German columnist and media producers.
Brought into the world in Duisburg in 1938, Pleitgen experienced childhood in squeezed conditions. The family was briefly cleared to Silesia and returned after the conflict to Bünde in East Westphalia. In the twelfth grade, he left secondary school without a degree since he was at that point working for the Bünden nearby publication office of the "Freie Presse" distributed in Bielefeld. He additionally chipped in there and turned into a supervisor in 1961. After two years came the transition to Westdeutscher Rundfunk, to which Pleitgen stayed faithful for the rest of his expert life.
Image of public telecom
Pleitgen was viewed as an image of public telecom and an underwriter of trustworthy news-casting on TV. He was an ARD journalist for quite a while. From 1970 he detailed from Moscow on the Soviet Association, went with the top of the Kremlin Leonid Brezhnev on trips abroad, and laid out contacts with notable dissenters. In 1977 Fritz Pleitgen moved to East Berlin. From that point, because of the seriously confined work open doors and reconnaissance by the State Security Administration, he and his group periodically changed to highlight East German scenes like Rügen, the Harz Mountains, or the Metal Mountains.
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In 1982, Pleitgen traded positions with Washington journalist Peter Merseburger. His time in the USA was set apart by the occasionally basic writing about Ronald Reagan's hostile world governmental issues, which procured SPD part Pleitgen the allegation of "against American suggestions" from conservative circles.
"Didn't have any desire to turn into a hierarch by any stretch of the imagination"
He then, at that point, worked for his home telecaster, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), manager in-boss, radio chief, and afterward chief for quite a long time. During this time he was involved, in addition to other things, in setting up the provincial studios - the saying was: »We change to the following door«. "I would have rather not turned into a hierarch by any means," he once guaranteed the German Press Office. »I generally needed to be a columnist. Yet, I was glad to hold the workplace.
Tom Buhrow, the ongoing head of WDR, commended Pleitgen as an exceptionally regarded broadcast chief, reporter, and political writer who impacted WDR.
In addition to other things, Pleitgen is recalled by the TV crowd for various balances of "Brennpunkt" programs or the ARD "Presseclub", which he directed until 2006.
»Face of the Revier« in the Capital of Culture year
His last significant task was the Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010. Here he was Chief from 2007 to 2011 and accordingly "the substance of the area" in the Capital of Culture year. He was worried about destroying obsolete thoughts of the previous "coal pot" and sending new pictures of the Ruhr region all over the planet. At the point when 21 individuals passed on in the Adoration March fiasco in the Capital of Culture year, Pleitgen was one of only a handful of exceptional who drove directly to the location of the mishap and openly conceded that he shared moral obligation.
In 2020, Pleitgen, who was then privileged leader of the German Malignant growth Help, disclosed a pancreatic disease illness. He lived in Bergisch Gladbach until his demise.
Fritz Pleitgen abandons his significant other, three children, and a girl. His child Frederik Pleitgen is likewise a TV writer. At the point when he went to Moscow as a CNN journalist in 2018, his dad conceded: "I envy him that."
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