What is Ulrich Kienzle?
[[File:Ulrich Kienzle.jpg|thumb|200px|Kienzle in 2017]] '''Ulrich Kienzle''' (9 May 1936 – 16 April 2020) was a [[Germans|German]] [[journalist]] and author. He worked mainly in the area of [[politics]] and [[culture]] of the [[Middle East]]. He worked for many broadcasters, including German public television networks [[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]] and [[ZDF]]. He was one of few [[Western world|Western]] journalists to interview [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in the 1970s. He also interviewed [[Saddam Hussein]] in 1990. Kienzle also appeared in ''Frontal'', a ZDF series of political discussions with broadcast journalist [[Bodo Hugo Hauser]]. Kienzle was born in Neckargröningen, [[Remseck]], [[Free People's State of Württemberg|Württemberg]]. He died on 16 April 2020 in [[Wiesbaden]], [[Hesse]]. He was 82.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/zum-tod-des-journalisten-ulrich-kienzle-ein-weltbuerger-der.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=474914|title=Zum Tod des Journalisten Ulrich Kienzle|publisher=Deutschlandfunk Kultur|date=17 April 2020|access-date=19 April 2020|lang=de}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} * {{official|http://www.ulrichkienzle.de/vita.html}} {{in lang|de}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kienzle, Ulrich}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:German journalists]] [[Category:People from Baden-Württemberg]] {{bio-stub}}