Werner Veigel was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 journalist

Journalist

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 and news presenter

News presenter

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After finishing school he began to work in a travel agency

Travel agency

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. In 1950 he started as a news presenter on Radio Hilversum. In 1954 Veigel began to work as journalist on Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was the organization responsible for public broadcasting in the German Länder of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 September 1945 until 31 December 1955. Until 1954, it was also responsible for broadcasting in West Berlin...

. Since 1966 he worked for TV news programm Tagesschau on German TV channel ARD

ARD (broadcaster)

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. The Tagesschau is both the oldest and the most watched news bulletin on German television.

In a relationship with Carlheinz Faust since 1955, Veigel was open about his homosexuality from 1995 onwards. Veigel died of a brain tumor

Brain tumor

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 in 1995.

Literature

• Dagmar Berghoff
  Dagmar Berghoff
  Dagmar Berghoff is a German radio and television presenter. Originally an actress, she became known as a reader of the evening news for ARD.-Biography:...
  
  , Wilhelm Wieben
  Wilhelm Wieben
  Wilhelm Wieben is a German journalist, actor and author.Wieben was born in Hennstedt, Dithmarschen. After school he studied theater at Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel in Berlin. Later he worked as a journalist for Radio Bremen. From 1972 to 1998 Wieben was a news presenter on the TV channel...
  
  , Werner Veigel: Rezepte und Geschichten aus 2000 Plattenkisten. Kuhle L. Verlag, 1987

External links

• Werner Veigel in Internet Movie Database
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