The former SFB editor-in-chief Jürgen Engert is dead. The journalist from Dresden died on Sunday at the age of 85, the RBB announced on Sunday in Berlin, citing family members. According to the information, Engert was television editor-in-chief at Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), one of the two predecessors of the RBB, from 1987 to 1998, and from 1998 to his retirement in 2001 he was the founding director of the ARD capital studio in Berlin. From 1984 to 1998 he moderated the politics magazine Contrasts in the ARD. Before that, the journalist was editor-in-chief at the West-Berliner Zeitung from 1974 to 1980 The evening. In 1974 he received the Theodor Wolff Prize and in 2002 the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin. “Jürgen Engert was one of the most influential television journalists in Germany,” said RBB director Patricia Schlesinger: “His work on ‘Contrasts’ and, above all, his contributions to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany are anchored in the country’s memory.” Schlesinger emphasized that Engert never took himself more seriously than the topics he reported on. His “critical awareness and his clear analyzes” were often a role model and will continue to be an incentive in the future.