Dagmar Berghoff

Dagmar Berghoff ( born January 25, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German radio and television presenter. Large notoriety she gained as the first female evening news spokeswoman.

Professional career

Born in Berlin, Dagmar Berghoff moved in 1946 with her ​​family to Ahrensburg near Hamburg in 1957 by Hamburg -Harburg. She studied from 1964 to 1967 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg. After that, she played among others, a supporting role in Once in a Lifetime. After working from 1967 to 1976 Südwestfunk in Baden -Baden as a television presenter, radio speaker and presenter she returned in 1975 to Hamburg and worked for the NDR Radio.

On 16 June 1976 she first read the news of the ARD, it was doing to the 16:00 - clock output. After the cancer death of the former chief spokesman Werner Veigel 1995 she was until her retirement from television in its last days show broadcast on 31 December 1999 chief spokeswoman for the German news program.

A trained actress, which occurred during their time at SWF in TV series and on theater, moderated during her time as a newsreader various music programs such as the ARD request concert from 1984 to 1992 and the NDR Talk Show. It has twice (1980 and 1990 ) with the Bambi in the Burda publishing house in 1987 honored with the Golden Camera magazine Hörzu.

In 1983, she spoke the cartridge Atari Programming made easy - A BASIC introductory course with Dagmar Berghoff. Since then, she has lent her voice for several audio book productions. In addition, it was for decades spokeswoman for the Philips Annual Chronicle. She also spoke to AOL jingle " You've got mail ", is the many AOL users in mind.

The fact that they 've spoken turn instructions for the upcoming mid -1990s, car navigation systems, is not true. However, some navigation systems use the voice of a so-called linguistic database that has a certain similarity with the voice of Dagmar Berghoff.

Personal

1961 Berghoff was a 18 -year-old romantically involved with the later CDU politician Volker Ruhe. With Dieter Wedel led three and a half years a relationship. On 16 May 1991 she married the physician Dr. Peter Matthaes ( born October 17, 1933), lecturer at the University Hospital Hamburg -Eppendorf and Chief Physician of the Surgical Department of the Israelite Hospital in Hamburg from 1972 to 1998; on 29 January 2001, died of pancreatic cancer.

Since 1997 Dagmar Berghoff is the patron of developmental Children's Fund terre des hommes. She also moderated a few media events and programs of the Hamburg NDR radio program 90.3. Since 2008 she has also transmitter godmother of Thuringia 's largest private regional television Salve.TV that supports them in its expansion.

Awards (selection)

Works

• Time for more. Memories and insights. ( Autobiography). Langen Müller, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7844-2764-2.
• Dagmar Berghoff reads Christmas stories by Theodor Storm. ( Audio Book ). Audio CD 2001, ISBN 3-89882-007-6.
• For Christmas. Stories with ulterior motives (selected by Dagmar Berghoff ). Gütersloher publishing house, Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 3-579-07208-0.