Wilhelm Wieben is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 journalist

Journalist

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, actor

Actor

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 and author

Author

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Wieben was born in Hennstedt, Dithmarschen

Hennstedt, Dithmarschen

Hennstedt is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km northeast of Heide. Hennstedt is the seat of the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde Eider....

. After school he studied theater at Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel in Berlin

Berlin

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. Later he worked as a journalist for Radio Bremen

Radio Bremen

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. From 1972 to 1998 Wieben was a news presenter on the TV channel ARD

ARD (broadcaster)

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 in Tagesschau. Wieben has authored books in Low German

Low German

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, a regional language in Northern Germany

Northern Germany

- Geography :The key terrain features of North Germany are the marshes along the coastline of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, and the geest and heaths inland. Also prominent are the low hills of the Baltic Uplands, the ground moraines, end moraines, sandur, glacial valleys, bogs, and Luch...

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Inge Meysel

Inge Meysel

Inge Meysel was a German actress. From the early 1960s until her death, Meysel was one of Germany's most popular actresses...

 outed Wieben in a 1995 interview in the magazine Stern

Stern (magazine)

Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. In the first quarter of 2006, its print run was 1.019 million copies and it reached 7.84 million readers according to...

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Works by author, in German

• Wenn't Abend ward. Heide : Boyens, 1999
• Melodie der Meere. Hamburg : Kabel, 1997
• Mien plattdüütsch Wiehnachtsbook. Heide in Holstein : Boyens, 1993
• Mien plattdüütsch Leesbook. Heide in Holstein : Boyens, 1986

External links

• Wilhelm Wieben in German National Library
  German National Library
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