[2] In 1953 he began as an agency journalist at the Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste and then moved to the Stuttgart-based Deutsche Zeitung und Wirtschaftszeitung [de].

Böhme himself described the revelations of Prime minister Barschel's then media spokesman Reiner Pfeiffer [de] about the manipulations in Schleswig-Holstein's 1987 state election campaign as the highlight of his career.

[3] After several disagreements with Rudolf Augstein, Böhme left Der Spiegel at the end of 1989 – shortly before his 60th birthday – after almost 17 years as editor-in-chief.

[4] From November 1990 he worked for four years as editor of the Berliner Zeitung, published by Gruner + Jahr and Robert Maxwell.

Böhme moderated n-tv's Der Grüne Salon together with Heinz Eggert from the end of 1997, before returning to his initial TV format with Talk in Berlin.