Jo Brauner

Joachim " Jo " Brown ( born November 29, 1937 in Nimptsch, Lower Silesia ) is a former newscaster and ARD news. On October 9, 1974, he read for the first time an edition of the evening news (10:00 - clock output), on 30 April 1975, the main issue at 20.00 clock and on 9 October 2004 the last time the news of the evening news.

Life

During World War II Jo Brauner was evacuated in January 1945 with his mother and three siblings from Wroclaw to Saalfeld / Saale, Thuringia. In 1958 he took the state exam as a primary school teacher of German in the GDR at the Pedagogical Institute in Leipzig. In August of the same year he fled from East Germany via West Berlin in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the following years he worked in Hamburg, among others, in a graphic arts institution, and later as a clerk in an insurance company.

In 1964, Jo Brauner applied at NDR. He took elocution lessons and read on May 15, 1965 his first news on NDR 2 At the invitation of Herbert Zimmermann he said in July 1965, the sports news on NDR 1 and NDR 2 In October 1965, Brown his job at the insurance company and worked from then on full time as a speaker on radio departments of the NDR. Previously, he had only spoken on Sundays at NDR.

1967, Joachim Brown also work as a speaker at the reports from the day on. In 1974 he was also on-and off-speakers in the news at the invitation of Karl -Heinz Köpcke. On 1 January 2000 Jo Brauner joined the succession of Dagmar Berghoff as chief spokesperson on ARD-aktuell.

On October 9, 2004 Brown leaving for the last time the news in the news, ending after 30 years working for the newscast. As part of the ARD Theme Week 2008, he spoke on 21 April 2008 in the ARD television one more time the half-hourly recurring daily news from the show.

As a football fan was Jo Brauner long time announcer at HSV and also at the annual event, the International Tennis Championships for men and women at the Hamburg Rothbaum. A job as announcer at HSV gave up Brauner, because he did not want to endorse an increasingly focused on show elements format.

Currently, Jo Brauner Newscaster format when Health vigo TV AOK. Since November 2009, Brown is the official patron of children's hospice for dying children Bethel.

On the night of December 21, 2012 Brown, together with Florian Schroeder, the pilot episode of the new satire show of the First German Television moderated The Grave.

Personal

Jo Brown is married since 1969 and has two daughters.