Joachim "Jo" Brauner (born 29 November 1937) is a German former news anchorman and

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Life

During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, Brauner was evacuated in January 1945 with his mother and three siblings from Breslau (Wroclaw) to

Saale The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale (german: Sächsische Saale) and Thuringian Saale (german: Thüringische Saale), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Fränkische Saale, ...

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. In 1958 he took a state exam to be a school teacher of German in the Pedagogical Institute in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

. In August 1958 he escaped from

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via

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to the

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. In the following years he worked in

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, among others, in a graphic arts institute, and later as a clerk in an insurance company. He started working for ARD television in 1974. On 9 October 2004 Brauner was on ARD for the last time, ending a thirty-year career working for the newscast. As part of the ARD-theme week 2008, he spoke on 21 April 2008 in the ARD television once again on recurring messages every half hour on the news. As a football fan, Brauner was a longtime announcer at HSV and at the annual event, the International Tennis Championships for men and women at Hamburg Rothenbaum. The function of the HSV stadium announcer was on him. Brauner is currently news anchor at TV AOK Health vigo format. Since November 2009, Brauner is an official sponsor of the Bethel Children's hospice for dying children.Jo Brauner für das Kinderhospiz Bethel
(German)

Personal life

Brauner has been married since 1969 and has two daughters.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brauner, Jo 1937 births Living people German television reporters and correspondents German broadcast news analysts German male journalists 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists German television talk show hosts People from Niemcza People from the Province of Silesia ARD (broadcaster) people Tagesschau (ARD) presenters and reporters Norddeutscher Rundfunk people