Karl-Heinz Smuda

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Karl-Heinz Smuda (born January 24, 1961 in Eschweiler) is a German journalist and a major in the German Air Force.

[edit] Radio career

Smuda was a correspondent for Deutschlandradio, Germany´s national radio public broadcast system, and head of a radio station in the former East German country of Brandenburg. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he worked as a reporter in Leipzig, and became known for his reports on the lives of the citizens of the DDR.For the past 30 years, Smuda has worked for various radio stations in Germany, as well as making a series of broadcasts from the United States concerning politics and culture in the Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, California and North Carolina. He worked as an editor in the German department of Radio Vatican in 1980 and 1981.

[edit] Background

Smuda received a scholarship for his work in children's television in Manila. He worked as a reporter in the crisis areas of East Timor and Kosovo. He has studied social science. He currently resides in Wilmersdorf area of Berlin. Smuda has also worked as a speaker for the German detachment of NATO Air Policing Baltikum in Šiauliai in Lithuania. At last he has worked in the Operation Headquarter of EU in Potsdam for preparation Europeens engagement during the election in the Democratic Republic Congo (PR). He was chief-editor of the newspaper "ECHO" during the multinational exercise ELITE 2006 for 16 countries.