Claus Kleber
Claus- Detlev Walter adhesive ( born September 2, 1955 in Reutlingen ) is a German journalist, author and television presenter.
Life
Claus Kleber was born in Reutlingen. The primary school attended adhesive in Vaduz ( Liechtenstein ) and from 1964 in Bensberg near Cologne. There he passed the matriculation examination at the Otto- Hahn-Gymnasium in 1974. Already during his school days adhesive was 1971-1976 freelancer the local section of the Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger. From winter semester 1974/1975 adhesive studied law at the Eberhard -Karls- University Tübingen, interrupted by two semesters abroad in 1978 and 1979 in Lausanne. In Tübingen, he became a member of the Catholic Student Association AV Guestfalia Tübingen in Cartellverband (CV). While studying adhesive was a freelancer of Südwestfunk in Tübingen and Baden -Baden. In the fall of 1980 put the glue First Legal State Examination in Tübingen. Then the clerkship in Stuttgart followed. In 1983, the Second State Examination in Law, followed by a research stay for his dissertation in Washington, DC and New York City.
For the study and abroad adhesive has received grants from the Study Foundation of the German people and the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD). After the second exam glue worked as a lawyer in an aligned on international economic law and competition law firm in Stuttgart. In 1986 he was at the Law Faculty in Tübingen with Scripture Private Radio - design options within the Constitution to Dr. iur. doctorate.
In January 1985, studio head of the adhesive was Südwestfunks in Konstanz and, after completing his doctorate in the journalistic trade. Since 1986, he reported for fifteen years as a correspondent for ARD broadcasting both in radio and in television reports from the U.S.. He rose from a radio editor for the studio manager in Washington DC on. From there Kleber reported live on the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. Prior to joining the ZDF adhesive was last ARD studio manager in London.
Adhesive since early 2003 Moderator of the ZDF heute -journal and was until February 2009, its director. Glue the end of 2007 was offered the position as chief editor of the news magazine Der Spiegel. However, he declined the offer later on, among other things, on the grounds that television was his medium. Then he gave the ZDF to its permanent position and moderates the heute-journal since then as a freelancer. This status brings him a much higher income one: According to research in the Süddeutsche Zeitung glue gets on the moderation of the now -journals € 480,000 a year and was thus as the highest-paid news anchor on German TV (now this title is awarded Kloeppel ). The moderator and director of the ZDF newsroom is a board member of a foundation of the German - American Elite Network of Atlantic Bridge.
2009, the German report and document the bomb was shown in three parts of glue and the filmmaker and author Angela Andersen. The first broadcast took place on August 2, 2009 at ZDF.
In the German version of the 2010 animated film released I - Despicable Me ( Original title: Despicable Me) adhesive lends to the newscaster from channel " msnbc " his voice.
After two years of effort led adhesive on March 18, 2012, a 45-minute recorded interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the adhesive Ahmadinejad questioned mainly on the Iranian nuclear program. There had been no substantive agreements loud adhesive. Ahmadinejad attacked the questions adhesive to reveal its suggestive questions. The interview led to criticism of an adhesive in the Central Council of Jews, Omid Nouri Pour and in newspaper commentaries.
Claus Kleber is married to the doctor Renate Grziwok since 1982 and has two daughters.
Adhesive lives with his family in Wiesbaden.