Biography
He grew up as the firstborn of two sons of the qualified engineer Dr. Peter Kleber and his wife Margot. He attended primary school in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. In 1964 he moved with his family to Bensberg near Cologne. In 1974 he passed his high school diploma. From 1974/1975, Kleber studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. In 1978 and 1979 he spent two semesters abroad in Lausanne. In Tübingen he became a member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen.
At this time he made his media debut as a freelancer for Südwestfunk in Tübingen and Baden-Baden. In 1980, Kleber passed his first state examination in law, followed by his traineeship in Stuttgart. His second state law examination followed in 1983. In the same year, 1983, he traveled to Washington D.C. for a research stay for his dissertation. and New York. For his studies and stays abroad, Kleber received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
After the second state examination, Kleber worked as a lawyer at a law firm in Stuttgart specializing in international business and competition law. In January 1985, Kleber became studio manager of Südwestfunk in Konstanz. In 1986, Claus Kleber received his doctorate on the subject of "Private broadcasting - design options within the constitutional framework". From 1986 to 2001, Kleber reported as a correspondent for the ARD broadcasters in both radio and television reports from the USA, where he was most recently appointed radio editor and studio manager in Washington D.C. was appointed.
During this time, Kleber provided live reports on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 for ARD. During his time in Washington, Kleber met the country's most influential politicians in his work. Among other things, he held personal conversations with the incumbent US Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In 2001 he moved to ZDF, where he was ultimately promoted to ARD studio manager in London. At the beginning of 2003, Claus Kleber became director and presenter of the ZDF news program "heute-journal".
In 2003, ZDF broadcast the Kleber documentaries "Allmacht Amerika", "People in the Tomorrowland" (2006), "India - Unstoppable" (2006) and "America's Other Side" (2007). As an author, Claus Kleber published the non-fiction books "Claus Kleber: Private Broadcasting - Design Options within the Constitutional Framework" (1986), "Claus Kleber: America's Crusades - What the World Power Is Driving" (2005) and "Claus Kleber: News that Made History. By from antiquity to today" (2006). In 2010 he was awarded the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for television journalism for his moderation of the program "heute-journal".
In his private life, Claus Kleber has been with Dr. Dr. since 1982. Renate Grziwok married. Together they are parents of two daughters.
