Walther von La Roche (29 February 1936 in Munich – 9 May 2010, Herrsching am Ammersee) was a German journalist, author and journalism teacher. Until 2006 he taught as Honorary Professor of Radio Journalism at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

Life

Walther von La Roche already gained his first journalistic experience as a student. After graduation in 1954, he began studying law at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, which he completed with the Assessor exam. In 1956 he received a scholarship from the Werner Friedmann Institute in Munich, the precursor of

Deutsche Journalistenschule The Deutsche Journalistenschule e.V. (), the German School of Journalism, is a journalism school in Germany. At the time of its establishment, it was the country's first German journalism school. Today, Deutsche Journalistenschule is considered o ...

. From 1961 he worked full-time at

Bayerischer Rundfunk Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...

as an editor and presenter. Until 1985, Walther von La Roche was also responsible for radio and television training at Bayerischer Rundfunk. La Roche has written numerous books and essays, including the standard work "Introduction to practical journalism", which first appeared in 1975 (today's editors: Klaus Meier and

Gabriele Hooffacker Gabriele Hooffacker (born February 10, 1959) is a German journalist, journalism teacher and a professor for specifics of media at Leipzig University of Applied Science. Her research interests are online media as well as interactive and participativ ...

). He was the founder and publisher of the book series Journalistische Praxis. From 2006, the series was published by Econ Verlag, since 2013 by Verlag Springer VS; Co-editor and publisher since 2010 is Gabriele Hooffacker.

References

* * Gabriele Hooffacker, Klaus Meier: La Roches Einführung in den praktischen Journalismus. Mit genauer Beschreibung aller Ausbildungswege Deutschland • Österreich • Schweiz, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, * Georg Löwisch: Der große leise Mann. Nachruf i
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Biography Walther von La Roche
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