Background
As a result of his father"s employment with North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris.
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As a result of his father"s employment with North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris.
In the 1960s he studied law and political sciences at the University of Bonn.
He is one of the best known broadcasters in Germany. In 1962 he spent a year at Wesleyan University on a Fulbright scholarship. After passing the first level of German bar exams in 1968, he started working as freelance radio producer for Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator, becoming a full-time editor there a short time later.
Between 1969 and 1977, Wickert was an editor for Monitor, a political affairs program produced by the WDR network.
He was deployed as a correspondent for every French presidential election between 1969 and 1978. In 1978 he was made French correspondent and transferred to the Paris bureau of the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator. In 1981, he founded the discussion group "Journalists for Public Broadcasting".
In that same year he became chief correspondent of the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator bureau in New New York In 1984 he became chief correspondent of the Paris Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator bureau.
Since 1 July 1991 he had been the chief anchor for tagesthemen, in alternation with Sabine Christiansen (1991-1997), Gabi Bauer (1997-2001) and Anne Will (2001-2006).
On 11 April 2004 he announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract, which expired in 2006. On 1 September 2006 Wickert was succeeded by Washington District of Columbia bureau chief Tom Buhrow. He was elevated to the French Légion d"honneur in 2005 for his service to French-German relations.