Background
Lange was born in Elbing (Elbląg), East Prussia.
Lange was born in Elbing (Elbląg), East Prussia.
After passing his Abitur he started to attend the stage school in Danzig (Gdańsk). In 1944 he was drafted to the Wehrmacht and became a Canadian prisoner of war in 1945. Until 1946 he was deployed as an ambulanceman for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration at Bergen-Belsen DP camp.
Lange worked as an actor at the theaters of Hildesheim and Bonn and started to work for the East German radio in 1950 and the East German television station in 1963.
Until 1990 he presented the main newscast "Aktuelle Kamera".