What others would need their own entire professional life for, Karl-Otto Saur has packed everything into his CV at once: being a journalist; Organizer and organizer of film screenings, readings, cabaret and concerts; act as a eulogist; run a film festival; Writing books and serving as a local councilor – Karl-Otto Saur did all of this with ambition and responsibility, with passion, at the same time unpretentiously and overall successfully. Without great deflections or false ambitions, because he is characterized by a keen sense of the dangers of opportunism – also in editorial offices – which can cause you to maneuver and lurch. Saur once said it was a question of self-respect to leave when there were too many twists and turns. He headed the SZ’s media department for more than twelve years; at that time the relevant page was still called “Television and Radio”. This was followed by an intermezzo at the Evening Newsbefore he at Mirror landed, which he then left again two years later.
On Karl-Otto Saur’s 80th birthday – media
