Joachim "Jo" Brauner (born 29 November 1937) is a German former news anchorman and

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Life

During the

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, Brauner was evacuated in January 1945 with his mother and three siblings from Breslau (Wroclaw) to

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. In 1958 he took a state exam to be a school teacher of German in the Pedagogical Institute in

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. In August 1958 he escaped from

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via

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to the

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. In the following years he worked in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

, among others, in a graphic arts institute, and later as a clerk in an insurance company. He started working for ARD television in 1974. On 9 October 2004 Brauner was on ARD for the last time, ending a thirty-year career working for the newscast. As part of the ARD-theme week 2008, he spoke on 21 April 2008 in the ARD television once again on recurring messages every half hour on the news. As a football fan, Brauner was a longtime announcer at HSV and at the annual event, the International Tennis Championships for men and women at Hamburg Rothenbaum. The function of the HSV stadium announcer was on him. Brauner is currently news anchor at TV AOK Health vigo format. Since November 2009, Brauner is an official sponsor of the Bethel Children's hospice for dying children.Jo Brauner für das Kinderhospiz Bethel
(German)

Personal life

Brauner has been married since 1969 and has two daughters.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brauner, Jo 1937 births Living people German television reporters and correspondents German broadcast news analysts German male journalists 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists German television talk show hosts People from Niemcza People from the Province of Silesia ARD (broadcaster) people Tagesschau (ARD) presenters and reporters Norddeutscher Rundfunk people