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Journalist Klaus Brinkbäumer should switch to the MDR
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Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk (MDR) wants to bring former SPIEGEL editor-in-chief Klaus Brinkbäumer to the Leipzig location as program director.
A spokeswoman for the public broadcaster confirmed that MDR director Karola Wille wanted to propose the change to the broadcasting council on December 7th.
The committee has the final say.
According to the spokeswoman, Brinkbäumer and MDR TV film director Jana Brandt, who Wille wants to propose as program director for the MDR location in Halle, will introduce themselves to the Broadcasting Council's committees on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The position in Halle will become vacant because the previous program director Katja Wildermuth will be the director of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR).
In the summer it became known that the MDR and its program director in Leipzig, Wolf-Dieter Jacobi, surprisingly go their separate ways.
Jacobi had headed the Leipzig program department since 2016, which includes the main information department.
Jacobi's five-year term would actually have run until 2021.
Klaus Brinkbäumer is one of the most famous journalists and leaf makers in Germany.
The 53-year-old worked for SPIEGEL for many years, including as a correspondent in New York and from 2015 to 2018 as editor-in-chief.
Brinkbäumer is also a bestselling author and a regular guest on TV talk shows.
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