Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt Biography
Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt is a German television producer, presenter, journalist, writer and manager in the media industry. As a television journalist, he works on German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk. He is also a talk show host of German NDR Talk Show.
Meyer-Burckhardt studied history and philosophy in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. He then moved to the College of Television and Film (HFF) in Munich. He made commercials from 1977 to 1984 before working as a television producer at the new German film company (ndF) in Munich. He moved to the advertising agency BBDO in Düsseldorf as a Creative Director and a Member of the Board from 1988 and remained there until 1991.
Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt Age
Burckhardt was born on July 24, 1956 in Kassel, Germany. He is 62 years old as of 2018.
Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt Wife and Children | Family
His mother was Brigitte Meyer-Burckhardt née Vollbrecht, she passed on in 2010. The television presenter is married to Dorothee Röhrig, a journalist and is a father of two.
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Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt Career
He founded the accents Film & Fernsehproduktion GmbH as managing partner in 1992. For the ARD, he developed and presented in 1994 Sowieso – Die Sonntagsshow, for which he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize. He was widely known as a presenter of the NDR Talk Show (with Alida Gundlach) from 1994 to 2001. From 1999 to 2001 he was also chairman of the management of Multimedia Film and Television Production GmbH, a joint venture between Axel Springer AG and Studio Hamburg GmbH.
He became a member of the executive board of Axel Springer AG in the department of electronic media and books in December 2001 til July 2004. moving from the Supervisory Board of ProSieben Sat.1 Media AG to its Management Board in the same month. He moved back to Hamburg in 2006, where he succeeded Matthias Esche as managing director of the Polyphon Group, which belongs to the Hamburg studio of the NDR. Together with Fred Kogel, Meyer-Burckhardt took over the management of Polyscreen, a joint venture between Polyphon and Constantin Film AG.
He left the management of Polyphon at his own request in May 31, 2013. He however continued to work as a producer for the polyphon. He was a jury member of the German Television Awards. He became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg from 2007 to 2012. At the Academy, he one of the two people responsible for the production department of the Hamburg Media School.
He began hosting the NDR Talk Show again in January 2008, together with Barbara Schöneberger. He also has his own talk show at the radio station NDR Info. Since 2010, he is the godfather of the children’s hospice Bethel for terminally ill children.
Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt Films
- 1996: Trickser
- 1996: Rendezvous des Todes
- 1997: The Judgment
- 2002: My last film
- 2005: An ordinary Jew
- 2011: Blueberry Blue
- 2012: The smarter moves out
- 2013: My husband, a murderer
- 2014: Duds
- 2017: My foreign friend
Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt Books
- The little story of a big love
- My days with Fabienne
- The termination
- Women’s stories – What I’ve learned from strong women
Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt Awards
- In 2002, Meyer-Burckhardt was awarded the Badge of Honor of the City of Kassel.
- Five Golden Lions, Bavarian Television Award, nomination for the International Emmy Award
- Three Adolf Grimme Awards 1998 for The Judgment.
- Adolf Grimme Prize 1994 Anyway – The Sunday Show
- He was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize 1992 as author, producer and presenter of the ARD program How much?
- 2017 Hamburg Producer Award for German Television Productions for the NDR Drama My Foreign Girlfriend
- 2018 FIPA d’Or for Best Actress and Best Screenplay for NDR Drama My Foreign Girlfriend at FIPA – Festival de création Audiovisual International