It was the evening of the 18th. In September 2005, Prime time in the ARD. A scene in the television history wrote, especially because you knew these sounds in the often watered-TV-political Talk (and knows). Still-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder explained to the presenter, and the former ZDF editor in chief Nikolaus Brender in the elephant round after the election, in front of the camera, he remains Chancellor, “even if you are working against it”. Strong stuff for Brender. The counters: “you have the power of the media and the media campaign discussed. I would point out that the ARD and the ZDF this is not to blame.“
Typically, Nikolaus Brender, the Indomitable. The 1949 in Freiburg-born Journalist has written twice in media history. Once, he dismissed the Chancellor, in the barriers, was not then Chancellor, (it was the time of Angela Merkel), the other Time began, and in its consequences, much more sustainable, he had to go in 2009 as ZDF editor-in-chief and thereby sparked a debate that continues to resonate in the case of ARD and ZDF until today.
The former Hessian CDU announced by Prime Minister Roland Koch, and Used the contract should not be extended as ZDF editor-in-chief to 2010. The ZDF-Intendant said Brender. Brender has not received the necessary majority in the ZDF Board of Directors, the Deputy Chairman was chef. He had to go.
Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-award, Grimme award
The Causa Brender has media written story, Claus Kleber called a “textbook example of the party’s influence”. The topic of the Federal constitutional court. It ruled in 2014 that the Supervisory bodies of the ZDF, a maximum of one-third of the members are expected to staatsnah. For the independence of public broadcasting was a significant strengthening. “The proclamation of the judgment in Karlsruhe, Germany self-witness, was one of the most beautiful moments of my Post-professional life,” said Brender of the dpa shortly before his 70. Birthday on Thursday.
Brender came in 1978, after law studies at the southwest radio. Later, he joined the editorial staff of the “daily topics”, was for five years the correspondent in Buenos Aires, and then of the WDR television program-in-chief, from 2000 to 2010, ZDF-editor-in-chief.
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A multi-decorated Journalist (Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-award, Grimme award), which insists on independence, and in the face of politicians are always self-confident appearance. An excellent representative of his Guild, especially against the Background of Fake-News-debates and the question of the meaningfulness of public broadcasting. The now Berlin-based Brender wants to engage after a stint as a Talker at n-tv, amplified in the case of the Initiative “journalists in schools”. “I feel especially for young people, as you distorted see the work of journalists.”
