Christoph Lanz

Christoph Lanz ( born 1959 in Darmstadt ) is a German journalist and was until November 2013 Multimedia Director Global Deutsche Welle.

Lanz was a trainee at the Darmstadt echo from 1979 until 1981.

After training, he began his journalistic career for the Southwest Radio (SWF 3) as a reporter and editor in Baden -Baden. In 1984 he went to New York, where he worked for ARD and RTL as a freelance radio correspondent. He then worked for 1985 - 1989 for 2 RIAS in Berlin, first as managing editor and then as deputy program director. In 1989 he moved to commercial radio FFH in Frankfurt, where he spent a year working as a deputy program director and editor in chief. At this time Radio FFH also took over the leadership in the Hessian radio market.

1990 Lance returned to the RIAS back, but this time as a presenter at RIAS TV. In March 1992, he was 31 years chief editor of the transmitter. After the political changes in Germany and the subsequent dissolution of the German RIAS TV wave took over the studios and facilities of RIAS TV in Berlin and launched DW- TV. Lanz also remained at DW-TV in the position of chief editor and shaped the early years of the international broadcaster with. In 1998, he was responsible for the relaunch of DW-TV towards a news, information and culture channel.

From 2002 until early 2012 he was Director of Television, then Multimedia Director Global Deutsche Welle. In this capacity, he was responsible for the current Internet and social media appearances Deutsche Welle. Christoph Lanz in 2002 brought the Arabic TV channel Deutsche Welle in. Also in 2002, he launched a TV news service for Afghanistan in Dari and Pashto. In February 2012, Lance was responsible for the realignment of television Deutsche Welle then with a total of six channels in different languages. 2006 interviewed Christoph Lanz, together with Gerhard Fuchs by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR ), Thomas Bellut for ZDF and Eberhard von Gemmingen SJ Vatican Radio Pope Benedict XVI. , In the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. It is to this day the first of its kind interview with a Pope ( Pope's interview on Youtube ).

2010 won Christoph Lanz, together with Max Hofmann RIAS Award in the category New Media " Walled In! " For the animation ( Eingemauert! on Youtube ).

Lanz worked at various universities as a lecturer:

• Free University of Berlin (1987/1988)
• University of Leipzig (1995 )
• Mittweida (1996 )
• Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster ( 1997)
• University of Melbourne, Honorary Fellow (since 2010)

Lance is a member of the board of trustees of private Quadriga University Berlin and the Advisory Board of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium Potsdam.