Ulrich Wickert
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Ulrich Wickert presents the German television news magazine Tagesthemen in alternation with journalist Anne Will. He is one of the best known broadcasters in Germany.
As a result of his father's employment with NATO, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris. In the 1960s he studied law and political sciences at the University of Bonn. In 1962 he spent a year at Wesleyan on a Fulbright scholarship.
After passing the first level of German bar exams in 1968, he started working as freelance radio producer for the ARD, the German state broadcaster, becoming a full-time editor there a short time later.
Between 1969 and 1977, Wickert was an editor for de:Monitor, a political affairs program produced by the WDR. He was deployed as a correspondent for every French presidential election between 1969 and 1978. In 1978 he was made French correspondent and transferred to the Paris bureau of the ARD.
In 1981, he founded the discussion group "Journalists for Public Broadcasting"; in that same year he became chief correspondent of the ARD bureau in New York. In 1984 he became chief correspondent of the Paris ARD bureau.
Since 1991 he has been the chief anchor for the Tagesthemen. On April 11th, 2004, he announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract, which expires in 2006.
Wickert is in his third marriage, to Julia Jäkel, executive publisher of the Brigitte Group at Gruner and Lahr.