07/2013 – present
Director General of WDR
Chairman of the ARD network (2020-2021 and August – December 2022)
2006 – 2013
Evening news anchor of ARD’s flagship news magazine "Tagesthemen"
2002 – 2006
Bureau Chief/correspondent
ARD German Television in Washington, D.C.
2000 – 2002
Correspondent
ARD German Television in Paris
1994 – 2000
Correspondent
ARD German Television in Washington, D.C.
1992 – 1994
Reporter for "tagesschau" (Germanyʼs leading news magazine, ARD, channel one)
1990 – 1992
Host of WDRʼs regional evening news magazine "Aktuelle Stunde"
1986
Editor WDR
Composition of regional news magazine "West 3 Aktuell"
1985
Cub reporter, WDR, Cologne
1978 – 1985
In collaboration with various daily papers
1978 – 1984
Master degree in history and politics, University of Bonn, Germany
1958
Born in Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Primary and secondary schooling in Siegburg
and Wisconsin/USA