Former ORF general manager Teddy Podgorski is dead

During his four-year term in office from 1986, Podgorski pushed forward TV regionalization and was responsible for “Federal State Today” as well as for the establishment of the ethnic group programs. The successful “Universum” series also goes back to him.

• From the archive: How Teddy invented “time in the picture” (OÖNplus)

First ORF sports director, then general director

Thaddäus Podgorski was born on July 19, 1935 in Vienna. As early as 1953 he started working as a news anchor and reporter at the Rot-Weiß-Rot station. In 1955 he moved to the current affairs department of the newly founded ORF television and soon became senior editor at “Zeit im Bild”. In 1967 he was promoted to chief reporter by the then ORF general manager Gerd Bacher. He created successful programs such as “Sportpanorama” and “An den Boxen”. In 1972 he was promoted to TV sports director, where he remained until his appointment as ORF general manager in 1986.

Also successful as an actor and director

He also appeared regularly in front of the camera for the shows “Seinerzeit” and “Jolly Joker”. There were also detours into acting (for example as Gestapo agent Pfalzner in “The Bockerer”) and book publications such as “Mohammed Ali”, “Muscles on Paper” and the Olympic book “Innsbruck and Montreal”. He also worked as a theater director and actor, for example when he staged at the Theater in der Josefstadt or at the Wiener Kammerspiele or took part in productions at the State Opera, the Volksoper and the Mörbisch Seefestspiele.

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