HAJO (HANS-JOACHIM) SEPPELT

focal points

doping
sports policy
Olympic Games

stations along the way

status quo

Freelance journalist for ARD (nationwide German broadcasting network) on TV and radio in Berlin since 2006; film author; features and reporting for all of the German state broadcasting institutions, currently mainly for the regional WDR network; reporter for the doping editorial team (WDR in Cologne)

Reporter and expert for the ARD network on TV and radio: on doping, politics in sport, coverage of the Olympic Games, summer and winter, as well as other major sports events

Coverage of all facets of problems associated with doping for ARD sports programs, news (ARD aktuell), as well as journals; author of TV documentaries on the topic of doping for ARD, and since 2007 author for sport inside (WDR)

1992-2006

Live commentator for ARD during the Olympic Games and during the World and European Swimming Championships

1993-2005

Editor, reporter, film author and presenter with the sports editorial team at Sender Freies Berlin (SFB; renamed Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, RBB since 2003)

1985-1993

Freelancer with the SFB sports editorial team

1991-1993

Editor-in-chief and reporter at SFB for the coverage of Berlin’s bid for the Olympic Games

1983-1985

Freelancer at the sports desks of dpa and Tagesspiegel

1978-1979

Freelancer at RIAS Berlin youth radio

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1982-1988

Graduate studies in sports, social studies, French and media studies at the Free University of Berlin

1963

Born in Berlin