Ulrich Wickert

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Ulrich Wickert
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Wickert in 2011
Born (1942-12-02) 2 December 1942 (age 82)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityGerman
OccupationJournalist

Ulrich Wickert (born 2 December 1942) is a Japanese-born German journalist. He is one of the best-known broadcasters in Germany. [1]

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Early life

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris as a result of his father Erwin Wickert being employed with NATO as a German diplomat. In the 1960s, he studied law and political sciences at the University of Bonn. In 1962, he spent a year at Wesleyan University on a Fulbright scholarship.

After passing the first level of German bar exams in 1968, he started working as freelance radio producer for ARD, becoming a full-time editor there a short time later. [2] [3]

Career

Between 1969 and 1977, Wickert was an editor for Monitor, a political affairs program produced by the WDR network. He was deployed as a correspondent for every French presidential election between 1969 and 1978. In 1978 he was made French correspondent and transferred to the Paris bureau of the ARD. [4]

In 1981, he founded the discussion group "Journalists for Public Broadcasting"; in that same year he became chief correspondent of the ARD bureau in New York. In 1984 he became chief correspondent of the Paris ARD bureau. [5] At the Place de la Concorde he demonstrated how French pedestrians walk across several lanes of busy car traffic without the help of traffic lights. [6]

From July 1991 to August 2006 he was chief anchor for Tagesthemen , in alternation with Sabine Christiansen (1991–1997), Gabi Bauer (1997–2001) and Anne Will (2001–2006). On 11 April 2004 he announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract, which expired in 2006. On 1 September 2006 Wickert was succeeded by Washington D.C. bureau chief Tom Buhrow. [7] [8]

He was elevated to the French Légion d'honneur in 2005 for his service to French-German relations. [9]

Personal life

Wickert is in his third marriage, to Julia Jäkel, CEO of the publishing house Gruner + Jahr.[ citation needed ]

He is the uncle of actress Emily Wood. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Frankreich! Rendez-vous mit Ulrich Wickert … GESPRÄCH & LESUNG". Institut français Deutschland (in German). 20 June 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Ulrich Wickert | Académie de Berlin" . Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Hefte (in German). Neuen Verlagsgesellschaft der Frankfurter Hefte. 1973.
  4. ↑ "Ulrich Wickert: Er war einmal "Mister Tagesthemen" – Bilder & Fotos – WELT". DIE WELT. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  5. ↑ Prüfer, Tillmann (11 September 2014). "Ulrich Wickert: "Ich kann wunderbar nichts tun"". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN   0044-2070 . Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "50 Jahre Weltspiegel: Ulrich Wickert am Place de la Concorde - hier anschauen".
  7. ↑ "Ulrich Wickert zu 40 Jahre "Tagesthemen" – Nachrichten sind "die Stärke der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen"". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 2 January 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Tom Buhrow folgt Ulrich Wickert bei "Tagesthemen"". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). 21 November 2005. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  9. ↑ "Ulrich Wickert: Er war einmal "Mister Tagesthemen" – Bilder & Fotos – WELT". DIE WELT. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  10. ↑ Emily Wood biography Archived 27 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
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