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 was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...
. He worked as journalist in German television. Since 1968 he worked for German broadcaster
ZDF
ZDF (), short for (; ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany ( ...
. He was member of
P.E.N.
Awards
* 1997:
Deutscher Kritikerpreis (together with
Friedhelm Brebeck and
Friedrich Schreiber)
* 2002:
Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award
References
External links
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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