Helped shape the show for 30 years
“Aktenzeichen XY” presenter Peter Nidetzky is dead
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In the 1970s, Peter Nidetzky became known through “file number XY”. For decades he has been the face of the Vienna branch of the German hit show. Now the journalist dies. His death also has consequences for Austrian politics.
The Austrian journalist Peter Nidetzky, known from the television program “Aktenzeichen XY … unsolved”, is dead. This was announced by the ÖVP party – Nidetzky was the father-in-law of ÖVP boss and Chancellor Karl Nehammer. Nidetzky was 84 years old.
For more than 30 years, starting in 1972, he helped shape “File number XY … unsolved”. In the manhunt show, the help of viewers in the search for suspects plays a crucial role. For decades, Switzerland and Austria were also fixed locations for cases. When the ZDF program, conceived and moderated by Eduard Zimmermann, went to the studio in Vienna, Nidetzky was there. His Swiss counterpart was the TV presenter Konrad Toenz.
More than 600 episodes have been broadcast since 1967, and Nidetzky has been there since the early 1970s. For a good 20 years, ZDF has been producing Germany's most successful manhunt program single-handedly. Since the withdrawal of Swiss television and the ORF, regular TV broadcasts have also been discontinued, and Nidetzky also disappeared from the format in 2002. Criminal cases from abroad are still occasionally discussed today.
Nidetzky, who was born in Vienna, had been head of the recording studio in Vienna since 1972. He was also heavily involved in equestrian sports. He published several books about horse riding. Nidetzky's daughter Katharina is married to Nehammer. According to the ÖVP, the Chancellor canceled the exploratory talks planned for today to form a government coalition with the SPÖ due to the death in the family.
