"Aktenzeichen XY...ungelöst" presenter Konrad Tönz died
The well-known Swiss radio journalist Konrad Tönz has died. He passed away on Sunday morning as a result of cancer. This was announced by advertising executive Frank Baumann on behalf of Tönz's family.
The former "Aktenzeichen XY...ungelöst" presenter would have turned 76 in May. The Swiss presenter gained international fame through the television program. Between 1976 and 1998, he announced police search reports and pertinent information from Swiss viewers from the recording studio in Zurich. Thanks to his dry presenting style, Tönz, together with co-presenter Peter Nidetzky from ORF and ZDF presenter Eduard Zimmermann, became an icon of the 1970s. As an after-effect of this popularity, the legendary Konrad Tönz Bar in Berlin was even named after him.
After his successful work in radio and television, he became managing director of PMA (Presse- und Medienarchiv AG Medienbeobachtung Zeitungsausschnittdienst) in Zurich in 1984. In 2000, the merger created ZMS/PMA Medienbeobachtung AG, on whose Board of Directors Tönz served until 2011. Konrad Tönz was married and father of four adult children. (SDA)
