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From the editorial office to retirement: moving farewell to the Freisinger Tagblatt for Margit Conrad

2022-03-26T11:11:06.125Z


Editor Margit Conrad shaped the Freisinger Tagblatt with her personal texts, now she is retiring. A touching farewell.


Editor Margit Conrad shaped the Freisinger Tagblatt with her personal texts, now she is retiring.

A touching farewell.

Freising

– With pad and pen, she sat in town halls and sports halls, at corporate press conferences and at carnival balls: FT editor Margit Conrad traveled almost everywhere in the Freising district for her reports, reports and interviews.

But as versatile as she was in her topics - one thing characterized all her journalistic work in the 25 years of working for the Freisinger Tagblatt: the passion with which she went to work.

The 64-year-old is now retiring.

Editor-in-chief Bernd Ernemann: "We are losing a great person"

"With Margit Conrad, we are not only losing a great person, but also a lot, a lot of knowledge," said Bernd Ernemann, Editor-in-Chief of the external editorial offices of the Münchner Merkur, at the farewell.

In this "ugly" spring, she joins the group of "veterans" who are now leaving the publishing house due to age.

He wished the long-standing employee good health so that she could "take off" in the new phase of her life.

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Farewell flowers: Margit Conrad and Helmut Hobmaier worked together for 25 years.

The editor-in-chief brought her to FT in 1997.

© Lehmann

The mother gave her the necessary push

Margit Conrad got off to a flying start as a journalist at the age of 21, although she actually had other things in mind.

"I wanted to be a sports teacher, but then I injured myself during my studies," she reports.

“My mother then got me into going to the newspaper.

'You write well', she said.” During this time, Margit Conrad was already delivering polished reports on handball games from her home town of Moosburg.

So she applied to the local Moosburger newspaper in 1979, prevailed against a competitor and was accepted.

Everything was still analogue – typewriter instead of computer, dictionary and dictionary instead of Google and Wikipedia.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

She stayed with the Moosburger Zeitung

for 13 years

before moving to the

SZ

as a generalist in 1992 and then following the call of the Freisinger Tagblatt in March 1997.

An offer had come from him that she could not refuse.

Helmut Hobmaier had just become editor-in-chief there – and came across Margit Conrad while looking for fresh staff.

Journalist “with heart and full of passion”

Helmut Hobmaier remembers his first personal coup at FT as follows: "When she came to my office, I appealed to her: Come to us!

And she said: It's okay.” It was then for a quarter of a century.

"Margit has struck in every department and in every form of presentation," reported Hobmaier at the farewell.

“She always wrote with heart and passion.

There was no other way for her, that made her unmistakable.” Her departure is sad for the FT editorial team.

"For you, Margit, it is important that you enjoy every day in your new exciting phase of life."

She has the know-how for retirement

No need to worry about Margit Conrad.

She has already acquired the know-how for retirement in the course of her life as a reporter.

She has mastered survival training with the Bundeswehr in Sicily and she also knows how to recharge her batteries for the next high flight.

After all, she was there when an airplane was refueled thousands of meters above the United States.

In addition, the young pensioner has made it her goal to “walk and cycle a lot, just do something for your health”.

And she can cook and bake - beware: understatement - quite well too.

With love and passion – her great recipe for success.

Here you can read one of Margit Conrad's most recently published articles: about the Moosburg diva Angelique Nagel

You can find more current news from the district of Freising at Merkur.de/Freising.

Source: merkur

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