From 1971 to 1981, he was a sports journalist for the German magazine Sportstudio.
In Germany Friedrichs became famous as the anchorman for the television news program Tagesthemen, which he moderated alternately with Ulrike Wolf (*1944) and later Sabine Christiansen.
On 9 November 1989 he announced to the German public that the Berlin Wall had fallen.
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