Biography

After graduating from school with a high school diploma, the son of a farmer studied sociology without a degree. Meanwhile, he attracted attention with his first journalistic works. Aust then became editor of the left-wing newspaper "konkret" in 1966, and from 1970 he was a senior employee of the television station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). Here he was, among other things, director of the program "Panorama" from 1972 to 1986. Stefan Aust first attracted international attention as a journalist in 1985 with the non-fiction book "The Baader-Meinhof Complex". In May 1988, Aust founded SPIEGEL TV. He also did pioneering work because, in the wake of the privatization of television rights, SPIEGEL TV was the first private political magazine format on German television. The content of the program dealt with a mixture of current economic and political issues. Aust was sometimes seen as the presenter of the show. Meanwhile, the book "Mauss - a German Agent" was published in 1988. In 1989, A

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