Michael Schmid-Ospach

Michael Schmid-Ospach (2014)

Michael Schmid-Ospach (29 August 1945 in Heidelberg - 29 August 2022 in Wachtberg) was a German journalist and managing director of the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Life

Michael Schmid-Ospach studied dramatics, German and psychology at the University of Cologne. After his graduation, he became head of the Feuilleton at the Westdeutsche Rundschau in Wuppertal. Afterwards, he firstly became deputy head of the editors church and of the broadcasting of epd. He not only became media policy advisor of the minister president of North Rhine-Westphalia Heinz Kühn, but also ARD spokesperson. He worked in different positions in the WDR, one of which being a deputy Program director. In addition, he worked as a moderator of the ARD program Kulturweltspiegel from 1998 to 2001.

He was unanimously elected Intendant of the Radio Bremen on the 17th March 1999, unable to take up the office for health reasons on the 5th April 1999.

From 1992 to 2001, he worked as the chairman of the supervisory board of the Filmstiftung NRW, while the former managing director Dieter Kosslick was in office. When Kosslick became the director of the Berlin International Film Festival, Schmid-Ospach took over his office. Besides this job, he was a member of the administrative board of the FFA, in the ZDF-television council and also the German-French film academy. He was the last to retire at the end of March 2010. In the short term, he worked as a founding managing director of the AV-Gründerzentrum NRW in Cologne, which is getting largely subsidized by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Schmid-Ospach died on his 77th birthday, 29 August 2022, in Wachtberg.

Other activities

• June 2007: chairman of the supervisory board of the Adolf-Grimme-Institut
• September 2007: deputy chairman of ZDF-Fernsehrat/ being elected to the ZDF-Board of directors, chairman of the Finance Committee from 2011 to 2016
• Lectureships at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Münster, the University of Siegen, the University of Cologne and the Hochschule Düsseldorf
• member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)
• member of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft
• member of the curatorial for the education of youth of the Adolf-Grimme-Institut
• member of the supervisory board of the European Center for Media Competence

Honors and awards

• 2006: appointment as honorary professor by the Hochschule Düsseldorf

Literature

• Tatort Staatskanzlei. Der Fall Barschel – zwei Jahre danach (editor), Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1989, ISBN 3-8729-4411-8.
• Mein Herz: niemandem. Ein Else Lasker-Schüler Almanach (editor), Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2002, ISBN 3-8729-4545-9.
• Holocaust. Briefe an den WDR, from Heiner Lichtenstein (author), Michael Schmid-Ospach (author), Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1985, ISBN 3-8729-4148-8.
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher (biography) from Barbara Dickmann (author), MichaelSchmid-Ospach (author), Lübbe Verlagsgruppe, Köln 1988, ISBN 3-4046-1119-5.

External links

• in the catalog German National Library
• Michael Schmid-Ospach on IMDb

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