Thomas Bellut

Thomas Bellut
Occupation	director (German: Intendant) of the public TV channel Second German Television (ZDF)
Predecessor	Markus Schächter
Successor	Incumbent

Thomas Bellut (born 8 March 1955 in Osnabrück) is a German journalist. Since March 2012, he is director (German: Intendant) of the public TV channel Second German Television (ZDF).

After graduation in 1974 at the school Antonianum in Vechta Bellut studied Political Science, History and Journalism from 1975 to 1982 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. During his studies he was scholar of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He finished the study with a PhD.

Before Bellut transferred to the TV channel ZDF in Mainz, he worked from 1983 to 1984 at the newspaper Westfälische Nachrichten in Münster.

At the ZDF channel Bellut was an editor of the Länderspiegel (lit. Federal State Mirror) TV magazine and ZDF correspondent in Berlin. He then became an assistant to the program director Oswald Ring responsible for shows like Familienmagazin (Family Magazine) and Reiselust (Wanderlust). After that, he was editorial director for special programs and the magazine blickpunkt (focal point). From 1997 he headed the main editorial department for domestic policy and presented specials and election broadcasts, like the Politbarometer, ZDF spezial, and the talk show Was nun, ..? (What now, ..?)

From 2002 to 2012 Bellut was Program Director of the ZDF channel. On 17 June 2011 he was elected as successor of Markus Schächter as ZDF Director. He is in office since 14/15 March 2012.

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