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Jan Hahn (1973-2021)
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RTL mourns its presenter Jan Hahn.
As the Cologne TV station announced, Hahn died on Tuesday after a brief serious illness.
Jan Hahn has been part of the team of moderators for the RTL program “Guten Morgen Deutschland” since 2017.
Jan Hahn was born in Leipzig in 1973, where he also studied communication, media and theater studies. He started working for the radio while still a student, for a long time he moderated at MDR Sputnik, later also in Berlin at Energy 103.4. The father of three has been active in front of the camera since 2001. In addition to moderating various game and live shows, he was a moderator at Sat.1 breakfast television from 2005 to 2016. In 2017, Jan Hahn moved to RTL in the same position. He also moderated the brief comeback of the game show "Wheel of Fortune" on RTL Plus.
The managing director of the RTL News department, Stephan Schmitter, said that everyone on the station was "shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden death of Jan." You are losing a very special person and dear colleague: "All of our thoughts and our deepest sympathy are with us his family and loved ones. "
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