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Star hour : a TV-Journalist and environmentalist Horst Stern died

"You can't save the German forest, Yes, by singing O Tannenbaum'." With rates like these, the environmentalist and TV journalist Horst star has burned itsel

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Star hour : a TV-Journalist and environmentalist Horst Stern died

"You can't save the German forest, Yes, by singing O Tannenbaum'." With rates like these, the environmentalist and TV journalist Horst star has burned itself into the collective TV memory. Now he has died according to his son last Thursday, near Passau at the age of 96 years.

With impressive, some dramatic film footage, and comments had warned star in the 1970s, before a thoughtless dealing with the nature and shortcomings. His ARD program "star hour" is a lot of older television viewers today is still a concept.

The former television Director of the Bavarian radio Horst Jaedicke, had him brought, allegedly, after five years of Efforts, from radio to television. Horst Stern had made in the ' 60s over 50 school radio shows about animals, even about misunderstood love of Animals,.

Horst Stern was on 24. October 1922 born in Szczecin in a poor family without a father. He broke off the oberrealschule in Berlin to the Middle school and made an apprenticeship at a Bank. In the Second world war he was a paratrooper in the so-called Africa campaign and was an American prisoner of war. In a prison camp in the United States, he managed to start, a remote studying of the rights and literature at the University of Chicago.

interpreter for the U.S. army

in 1948 he returned from the United States and became an interpreter for the U.S. army in Ludwigsburg (Baden-Württemberg). He was court reporter for the "Stuttgarter Nachrichten", then he moved to the radio süddeutscher Rundfunk. With the 20 episodes of the series "star hour" - he wrote between 1970 and 1979, the history of television. Horst Stern-along with his journalistic activity as a pioneer of organised nature conservation. He was a 1975 co-founder of the Federation for environment and nature conservation in Germany, in 1982, co-founder of the German environmental Foundation.

He reported exclusively on the local wildlife, lashed out at the wrong love-understood Animal. Large protests have caused his "remarks about the red deer", which were broadcast on Christmas evening of the year in 1971. Therefore, his statement about the rescue of the forest, and "O Tannenbaum".

Südfunk-TV Director Jaedicke defended the broadcast, saying: "If someone is on Christmas eve, needs the TV at all, to put yourself in the Christmas mood, then he should turn on the ZDF. Since the Regensburg singing Domspatzen."

in 1979, finished, Horst star in its TV activity, with a pithy sentence: "If it is that old ladies kiss your hands, and you Francis see, then you're on the completely wrong track."

He went to Ireland, founded the journal "nature" in the Ringier publishing house in Zurich and began to write novels, including "the man from Puglia" Emperor Frederick II (1986) and "hunting amendment" (1989).

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Horst Stern lived very withdrawn again in Passau. His 90. Birthday in 2012, said a spokeswoman for the city, the star does not want to celebrate "in the Public, and his feast day in seclusion".

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