Given the question: Facts: - death place: zeuthen , brandenburg , germany - language: german - parent: julius eduard von schnitzler - caption: karl-eduard von schnitzler -lrb- 1956 -rrb- - party: sed - death date: 20 september 2001 - spouse: marlis -rrb- christine laszar -lrb- 1958 -rrb- marta rafael -lrb- 1960 hoeres -rrb- -lrb- 1940 -rrb- inge keller -lrb- 1952 - children: stephan -lrb- von -rrb- schnitzler barbara schnitzler karin schnitzler - birth date: 28 april 1918 - name: karl-eduard von schnitzler - nationality: german - image: bundesarchiv bild 183-41751-0001 , karl-eduard v. schnitzler.jpg - birth place: dahlem -lrb- berlin -rrb- , germany - occupation: journalist television presenter Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of karl-eduard von schnitzler .
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karl-eduard von schnitzler -lrb- april 28 , 1918 -- september 20 , 2001 -rrb- was an east german journalist and host of the television show '' der schwarze kanal '' -lrb- -rrb- from march 21 , 1960 to october 30 , 1989 .schnitzler was born in berlin the son of german vice consul julius eduard von schnitzler , scion of a cologne banking dynasty , who had been ennobled by the state of prussia in 1913 .karl-eduard attended a boarding school at bad godesberg and joined the '' sozialistische arbeiter-jugend '' youth organisation of the social democratic party of germany in 1932 .after receiving his school-leaving qualification in 1937 he began studying medicine at the university of freiburg but later trained as a merchant in cologne .when world war ii broke out in 1939 , schnitzler was drafted into the wehrmacht , but was captured by british forces in 1944 following the battle of normandy .after his capture , schnitzler began to work for the ministry of information and the german-language wing of the bbc where his talents as a broadcaster were soon recognised .after his release in 1945 he returned to the british zone of allied occupied germany and became an employee of the british controlled radio station nordwestdeutscher rundfunk -lrb- nwdr -rrb- in hamburg .he was transferred to their cologne studios on 1 january 1946 , where he was assigned the post of associate director and head of the politics department .his political bias soon became apparent to his superiors and he was removed from his position in cologne and returned to the nwdr 's hamburg offices until his eventual dismissal in 1947 being accused of spreading communist propaganda .schnitzler changed over to the soviet occupation zone and worked for the berliner rundfunk and the deutschlandsender program of the rundfunk der ddr .he joined the socialist unity party in 1948 .during the 1950s , he contributed to a number of smaller television shows before the first broadcast of '' der schwarze kanal '' on 21 march 1960 .the programme was...