RIP Evelyn Lazar

 

Former evening show presenter Evelyn Lazar died

rbb24

3/4/2025

 

The former evening show presenter Evelyn Lazar is dead. She died on Monday at the age of 91, as rbb learned from Lazar's family.

First woman at the evening show

Lazar was the first woman to present the Berlin television show from 1971 to 1991. The then editorial director Harald Karas was convinced by her. "I said I wanted to do it. And he said, 'Well, let's try it,'" Lazar later recounted. Some colleagues told her that they had nothing against a woman taking over the moderation, but that she would break into the studio under the nervous strain. "We didn't break in," she said.

Before she presented the Abendschau, Lazar was a reporter for the Sender Freies Berlin (SFB). At first, she wanted to become an actress. Cultural topics also accompanied her as a reporter and presenter.

In the 1980s, she sometimes presented in doubles with changing colleagues. Preferably, as she said herself, with Hans-Werner Kock. They were the "double Lottchen" of the evening show.

LAZAR, Evelyn

Born: 3/10/1933, Germany

Died: 3/3/2025, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Evelyn Lazar’s western – actress:

The Last of the Mohicans (TV) – 1956 (Cora Munro)