Peter Limbourg (born 7 July 1960) is a German
broadcast journalist
Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...
and the Director General of ''
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service con ...
''.
Career
Alongside
Peter Kloeppel
Peter Gert Johannes Kloeppel (born 14 October 1958) is a German journalist and former chief editor of RTL Television. He is chief anchor of RTL's flagship daily television news program ''RTL aktuell''.
Early life and education
Kloeppel was bo ...
, Limbourg moderated the first of two
TV election debates between
Chancellor
Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt "Gerd" Schröder (; born 7 April 1944) is a German lobbyist and former politician, who served as the chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. From 1999 to 2004, he was also the Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ...
and his challenger
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber (born 28 September 1941) is a German politician who served as the 16th Minister President of the States of Germany, state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Christian So ...
ahead of the
2002 elections, which was aired live on two of Germany's private television channels during prime-time.
Between 2008 and 2013, Limbourg was the main presenter of daily news show ''
SAT.1 News''. In addition, he served as Editor-in-Chief of
N24 (2008–2010) and as Information Director of
ProSiebenSat.1 Media
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE (officially abbreviated as P7S1, formerly ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG) is a German mass media & digital company. It operates in three segments: Entertainment, Dating and Commerce & Ventures. The company is listed on the Fran ...
(2010–2013).
In September 2016, Limbourg condemned
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
for confiscating the recording of a ''
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service con ...
'' interview with Youth and Sports Minister
Akif Çağatay Kılıç
Akif Çağatay Kılıç (born 15 June 1976) is a Turkish educator, politician, an MP for Samsun Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the former Minister of Youth and Sports of Turkey.
In September 2016, Kılıç w ...
at his office in Ankara, arguing that the seizure of the video tape was "a blatant violation of press freedom." ''
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service con ...
'' reporter
Michel Friedman
Julien Michel Friedman (; born 25 February 1956 in Paris) is a German author, former CDU politician and talk show host. From 2000 to 2003 Friedman was vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and president of the European Jewish ...
had asked Kılıç questions about July's attempted coup, mass layoffs and arrests that followed the failed putsch, and the media situation and the position of women in Turkey.
Other activities
*
Aktion Deutschland Hilft
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(Germany's Relief Coalition), Member of the Board of Trustees
* Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik (BAPP), Member of the Board of Trustees
*
Civis Media Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2013)
* International Journalists’ Programmes (IJP), Member of the Board of Trustees
* Konrad Adenauer Prize, Member of the Advisory Board
* RIAS Berlin Commission, Co-chairman (alongside David Reinert)
Members of the Commission
RIAS Berlin Commission.
* Reporters Without Borders Germany, Member of the Board of Trustees (until 2014)
References
External links
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Living people
1960 births
German television talk show hosts
German television presenters
German television journalists
German male journalists
20th-century German journalists
21st-century German journalists
Sat.1 people
Deutsche Welle
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