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Jurgen Gothe
Former Radio Broadcaster
Jurgen Gothe (April 4, 1944 – April 9, 2015) was a German-born Canadian radio broadcaster and print columnist.
For 23 years, from 1985 to 2008, he was host of the national classical music program DiscDrive, which aired across Canada on CBC Radio 2.[1]
Life and career
Gothe was born in Berlin, Germany, where he was a child actor for Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor[2] before his family moved to Canada in 1954.[3] They settled in Medicine Hat, Alberta,[3] where his father was a baker.[4] He dropped out of high school after Grade 10, and joined local radio station CHAT at age 15 as an advertising copywriter,[5] later moving to an on-air role as host of a jazz show[3] and writing for sister CBC television affiliate station CHAT-TV.[3]
Moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in the mid-1960s,[6] he worked for an advertising agency and for CHQM-FM&