Werner Höfer

Werner Höfer (21 March 1913, in

Kaisersesch Kaisersesch () is a town in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', to which it also belongs. Geography The town lies in the eastern Eifel halfway betwee ...

, Rhine Province – 26 November 1997, in

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) was a German journalist. He started his career as a Nazi propagandist, working for the newspaper '' Das Reich''. From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the

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. After the

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, he worked for the

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institutions

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and

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. He gained popularity as the host of the Sunday TV discussion show ''Internationaler

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'', modeled on NBC's

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and running from 1952 to 1987. When his publicly expressed satisfaction upon the execution of pianist

Karlrobert Kreiten Karlrobert Kreiten (26 June 1916, Bonn, Rhine Province – 7 September 1943) was a German pianist, though holding Dutch citizenship his entire life due to his Dutch father. Biography He was regarded by Wilhelm Furtwängler and others to be one ...

in September 1943 became known to a wider public, he was forced to retire in 1987. His daughter

Candida Höfer Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students, Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual approach. From 1997 to 2000, ...

is a well known photographer. 1913 births 1997 deaths People from Cochem-Zell German male journalists 20th-century German journalists German television journalists German television talk show hosts German broadcast news analysts Nazi Party politicians People from the Rhine Province Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany German male writers ARD (broadcaster) people Westdeutscher Rundfunk people {{Germany-journalist-stub