Dieter Kronzucker
Hans Dieter Kronzucker ( born April 22, 1936 in Munich) is a German journalist, television presenter and lecturer.
Life
At the Wittelsbach Gymnasium in Munich, which he left in 1954 with the Abitur, Kronzucker collected as founder and chief editor of the school newspaper first journalistic experience. He received his doctorate in 1962 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vienna. From 1963 Kronzucker was a freelancer at the transmitter German wave and the WDR.
In 1965, he hosted the world level in the ARD. As a correspondent, he worked for several German television stations, eg Spain, Portugal, Asia, North Africa, North and Latin America.
In 1976, he developed the satirical magazine Extra 3 for the NDR. In 1978 he founded in the ZDF heute-journal, which he regularly moderated until his move to Sat.1 1991. In August 2004, Dieter Kronzucker took over the news channel N24 initially the format Kronzuckers world, covering a wide range of documentation, which consist primarily of U.S. productions. He thus replaced from Hans -Hermann Gockel, who accompanied N24 documentary highlight so far. Since April 2005, he moderated the magazine " Kronzuckers cosmos ". In addition, the N24 viewers can see reports by Dieter Kronzucker from around the world in the series' go Kronzucker ".
From 2001 to 2007 he was a professor of television journalism and documentation at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich) operates. Since 2008 he is Professor of Communication Management at the SRH University Berlin.
In the Kronzucker kidnapping in 1980 his two daughters and a nephew were abducted and held for more than two months. His daughter Susanne Kronzucker is also a journalist and presenter.
Kronzucker lives in Berlin, Munich and Tegernsee.