Friedrich Nowottny

After his father was killed in the Second World War and the family was expelled, Nowottny lived in Westphalia. In the immediate post-war years, Nowottny initially worked as an interpreter for the British occupying forces. He then worked from 1948, first as a trainee and then as an editor for the "Freie Presse" in Bielefeld. In the 1950s he made a name for himself as a freelancer for various radio and television companies. In 1962, Nowottny joined the Saarland Radio, for which he was employed in Saarbrücken as head of the department for economic and social policy. Here in 1963 he was involved in founding the television series "The Market - Economy for Everyone", through which the journalist became known to a larger television audience for the first time. In 1965, Nowottny was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief of Saarland Radio. Two years later he went to Bonn as deputy head of the WDR television studio, where he began working for the "Report from Bonn" series. In 1973, Nowottny was pr