Dirk Sager (13 August 1940 – 2 January 2014) was a German journalist.

Life

Sager studied American studies, politics and journalism at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in poli ...

. He worked as journalist in German television. Since 1968 he worked for German broadcaster

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. He was member of

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Awards

* 1997:

Deutscher Kritikerpreis Deutscher Kritikerpreis was a cultural prize awarded annually by the Association of German Critics (Verband der Deutschen Kritiker e.V.) from 1951 to 2009. This award was given for outstanding contributions in the fields of architecture, the fi ...

(together with Friedhelm Brebeck and

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) * 2002:

Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award is a German award for excellence in journalism. It was first awarded in 1995. The award is named for the German journalist Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, who died in the year before the awards had established. The w ...

References

External links

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Dirk Sager - ZDF trauert um Reporter Dirk Sager
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sager, Dirk Journalists from Hamburg German male journalists 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists 1940 births 2014 deaths German male writers Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor people ZDF people