{{Short description|German journalist, actor, and author (1935–2019)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox person |name=Wilhelm Wieben |image=W.Wieben (cropped).JPG |birth_date={{birth date|1935|06|02|df=y}} |birth_place=Hennstedt, Dithmarschen, Germany |death_date={{death date and age|2019|6|13|1935|06|02|df=y}} |death_place=Hamburg, Germany |occupation=Television journalist, actor, author }}
'''Wilhelm Wieben''' (2 June 1935 – 13 June 2019<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article226159347/Tagesschau-Sprecher-Wilhelm-Wieben-gestorben-ARD-Hamburg-Dagmar-Berghoff-Jan-Hofer-Pinar-Atalay.html |title=Wilhelm Wieben ist tot: "Er prägte das deutsche Fernsehen" |language=German |work=Hamburger Abendblatt |date=13 June 2019 |accessdate=13 June 2019}}</ref>) was a German journalist, actor and author, best known for presenting the daily news in ''Tagesschau'', the most-watched news program on German television,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalfernsehen.de/Tagesschau-liegt-auch-2015-bei-den-Zuschauern-vorn.135391.0.html|title="Tagesschau" liegt auch 2015 bei den Zuschauern vorn|website=digitalfernsehen.de|date=30 December 2015|language=de|access-date=26 February 2019}}</ref> from 1973 to 1998.
== Biography == Wieben was born in Hennstedt, Dithmarschen. After school he studied theater at ''Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel'' in Berlin. Later he worked as a journalist for Radio Bremen and was a news presenter on the TV channel ARD in Tagesschau between 1973 and his retirement in 1998. Wieben has authored books in Low German, a regional language in Northern Germany. He is also heard (and briefly seen in the music video) in Falco's controversial hit song ''Jeanny'': The part of the Newsflash in the track is spoken by Wieben.
Inge Meysel outed Wieben as a homosexual in a 1995 interview in the magazine ''Stern''.<ref name=ntv>[http://www.n-tv.de/archiv/Wilhelm-Wieben-wird-70-article151364.html n-tv article about Wilhelm Wieben: Kein Schnee von gestern – Wilhelm Wieben wird 70]</ref> Before publication, ''Stern'' asked for Wieben's permission to publish the interview which he granted.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/promi-news/article205355001/Wieben-feiert-mit-Berghoff-seinen-80-Geburtstag.html|title=Wieben feiert mit Berghoff seinen 80. Geburtstag|date=2 June 2015|accessdate=1 March 2018|publisher=Hamburger Abendblatt}}</ref>
== 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
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== External links == {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0992835}} * [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=122380878 Wilhelm Wieben] in German National Library
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