Wolf Mittler

Wolf Müller-Mittler After the war he worked for Bavarian Radio, translating foreign broadcasts and conducting interviews.

Early life Wolf Müller-Mittler was born in Munich on 1 January 1918 (some sources report 1914). His maternal grandfather had been born in Königsberg, Prussia, but for much of his life lived in Ireland, where Mittler's mother was born. His father was a legal expert who, after the First World War, represented the Bavarian government in the Geneva Red Cross negotiations on the release and exchange of prisoners-of-war. Mittler was bilingual,

German propaganda broadcasting In late 1937, Mittler joined the national German broadcaster, Reichs Rundfunk GmbH (RRG), as a reporter and announcer. He worked for the short-wave station Deutsche Kurzwellensender (KWS) and was a natural choice for English-language broadcasts. However, when the programmes acquired a more overtly political slant in about September 1939, Mittler found himself reluctantly acting as an English-language propagandist for Nazi achievements and goals. "It can't have been more than five or six times", he told Denys Blakeaway, when interviewed for BBC Radio 4 in 1991. In his autobiography Mittler recalled:

It is widely believed that it was Mittler's voice that the British journalist Jonah Barrington first described when he wrote of hearing a man who spoke "English of the haw-haw, damit-get-out-of-my-way variety" and whose "strong suit is gentlemanly indignation". Indeed, Mittler's successor, Norman Baillie-Stewart, a former British spy for Nazi Germany, wrote in his post-war autobiography:

Baillie-Stewart also recalled that Mittler "sounded almost like a caricature of an Englishman with his tone of light mockery and the affectation of his accent. He ended all his announcements with a ridiculous, 'Hearty Cherrios. and the first Moon landing live in 1969.

He also conducted interviews with celebrities like Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Gregory Peck, Maria Callas, and Ingrid Bergman, and American president Richard Nixon.

Later in his career, he gave the traffic information for German radio station Bayern 3.

Television (1959) – Host

Filmography (1977) – as Annotator