Hanns Joachim "Hajo" Friedrichs (15 March 1927 – 28 March 1995) was a German

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

Life

Friedrichs was born in

Hamm Hamm (, Latin: ''Hammona'') is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of 2016 its population was 179,397. The city is situated between the A1 motorway and A2 motorway. Hamm railwa ...

. From 1971 to 1981, he was a sports journalist for the German magazine ''Sportstudio''. 1985 Friedrichs went from

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

to ARD. In Germany Friedrichs became famous as the anchorman for the television news program

Tagesthemen ''Tagesthemen'' is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Ingo Zamperoni. Second only to the 20:00 ''Tagesschau'' ("Review of the Day") ''Tagesthemen'' ("Issues of the Day") is ARD's most ...

, which he moderated alternately with Ulrike Wolf (*1944) and later

Sabine Christiansen Sabine Christiansen (born 20 September 1957 in Preetz, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany) is a German journalist and television presenter. Career After finishing school in Preetz, Christiansen worked at Lufthansa from 1976 to 1982, then appr ...

. He was succeeded by

Ulrich Wickert Ulrich Wickert (born 2 December 1942) is a German journalist. He is one of the best-known broadcasters in Germany. Early life Born in Tokyo, Japan, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris as a result of his father Erwin Wickert being employe ...

. Friedrichs died in March 1995 from

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissue (biology), tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from tran ...

. The

Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award is a German award for excellence in journalism. It was first awarded in 1995. The award is named for the German journalist Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Hanns Joachim "Hajo" Friedrichs (15 March 1927 – 28 March 1 ...

for works in

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is named after him. On 9 November 1989 he announced to the German public that the

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had fallen.How an accident caused the Berlin Wall to come down
Mary Elise Sarotte,

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, November 1, 2009 He died in

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Awards

Goldener Gong ''Gong'' is a German radio and (today, primarily) television listings magazine owned and published by the German media conglomerate Funke Mediengruppe. An extract from the magazine, was featured in the secondary school early 90s German textbook ...

for ''Bilder aus Amerika'', together with Dieter Kronzucker

References

External links

Website of Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award with biographical information

Spiegel:Hanns Joachim Friedrichs (german)
German male journalists German television presenters German sports journalists German sports broadcasters German television reporters and correspondents German broadcast news analysts 20th-century German journalists People from Hamm 1927 births 1995 deaths Deaths from lung cancer in Germany German male writers ARD (broadcaster) people ZDF people Norddeutscher Rundfunk people {{Germany-journalist-stub