Thomas Bellut

After graduating from the school Antonianum in Vechta in 1974, he studied Political Science, History and Journalism at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1975 to 1982.

Before Bellut transferred to the TV channel ZDF in Mainz, he worked from 1983 to 1984 at the newspaper Westfälische Nachrichten in Münster.

Federal State Mirror) TV magazine and ZDF correspondent in Berlin.

He then became an assistant to the program director Oswald Ring responsible for shows like Familienmagazin (Family Magazine) and Reiselust (Wanderlust).

From 1997 he headed the main editorial department for domestic policy and presented specials and election broadcasts, like the Politbarometer, ZDF spezial [de], and the interview series Was nun, ..?