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Ruprecht Eser (archive photo) in the studio of »Half 12 – Eser and Guests«
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He worked for ZDF for more than three decades: sometimes as a correspondent from London, sometimes as the moderator of the Sunday talk show »Half 12 – Eser und Gäste«.
Now the former ZDF chief reporter has died at the age of 79.
"We mourn the loss of a thoroughbred journalist and persistent interviewer," quoted the broadcaster ZDF editor-in-chief Bettina Schausten in a message.
Eser shaped the political reporting of ZDF for decades, "especially during the German years of reunification".
Eser, born in Lutherstadt Wittenberg in 1943, worked as an editor at the BBC's German Service during his professional life;
In 1970 he moved to ZDF to the main editorial department for politics and current affairs, where he headed the reportage/documentation department until the 1980s.
From 1985 he was moderator of the "heute journal" and in this role he also accompanied the turning point in 1989/1990.
After a brief move to the "Westbahnenkanal", the predecessor of the private broadcaster VOX, he returned to ZDF, where he was responsible for the ZDF magazine "ML mona lisa", among other things.
Later, when he moved to the ZDF studio in London, he also reported from the United Kingdom.
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