Jo Röpke

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birth_date = October 4, 1928
birth_place = Ghent, Belgium
death_date = May 25, 2007
death_place = Cannes, France
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occupation = Television host, film journalist, director and critic
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Jo Röpke (October 4, 1928–May 25, 2007) was a Belgian filmcritic, film journalist, director and tv-host. In Belgium he was considered as a monument of the Belgian state television BRT, the publicly-funded broadcaster.Fact|date=December 2007

Jo Röpke died during the Cannes Film Festival, France at the age of 78 on May 25, 2007.

TV-show "Premiere"

Over more than 30 years (the sixties, seventies and eighties) Jo Röpke was popular, especially in the Flemish part of Belgium and The Netherlands, as the tv host of the filmmagazine 'Premiere' at the Belgian state television BRT, the former VRT (the publicly-funded broadcaster of Flanders at the northern part of Belgium).

With "Jo Röpke" the TV show "Premiere" became more than an ordinairy promo-program sponsored by film distributors, as Röpke used a dry but charming presentation style with critical, and sometimes funny and slightly ironical side remarks.

Quotes

*"In this Western the horses act slightly better than the actors."
*"In my life I saw about twelve thousand films, or more than 44 million meters of film of which I possibly forgot thirty million meters."

Academic and journalistic career

*Röpke gained international respect as an eminent filmjournalist and critic.
*Researcher at the ULB, the French Free University of Brussels between 1953 and 1958 and at the R.U.G. University of Ghent from 1958 until 1962.
*Professor film analysis and rector at the Brussels' filmschool H.R.I.T.C.S.

*President of the Film Festival of Brussels.

Director

*"The BRT-news" (at the former VRT, the publicly-funded broadcaster of Flanders)
*"Echo", tv-show at the BRT, (the former VRT, the publicly-funded broadcaster of Flanders)
*"Panorama", tv-documentary-show at the BRT, (the former VRT, the publicly-funded broadcaster of Flanders)
*"Zoeklicht", cultural television show at the BRT, (the former VRT, the publicly-funded broadcaster of Flanders)

References

*Belga
*De Standaard [http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF25052007_005]
*De Tijd [http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/de_wijde_wereld/artikel.asp?Id=2945582]