Stelian Tănase, Date of Birth

Stelian Tănase

Romanian activist

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1952

Profession: screenwriter, writer, politician, historian, film director

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Stelian Tanase (born February 17, 1952) is a Romanian writer, journalist, political analyst, and talk show host.
Tanase was from November 2013 to October 2015 the president of TVR.
Having briefly engaged in politics during the early 1990s, after the fall of the Communist regime, he has remained a leading figure of the Romanian civil society. Stelian Tanase founded 22 magazine in January 1990 and was its first editor-in-chief.
A founding member of both the Group for Social Dialogue and the Civic Alliance, Stelian Tanase was the latter's vice-president between 1991 and 1993.
In 1992, he founded Sfera Politicii; he is a managing editor of both, as well as a regular contributor to various Romanian newspapers.
Over the years, he was the host of several talk shows (2 plus 1 and Orient express for Antena 1; Masina de tocat for TVR 1; Zece si un sfert, Zece fix, Tanase si Dinescu, and 3 X 3 for Realitatea TV). Tanase is also vocal in the campaign to declassify all files kept in Securitate archives; in March 2002, he invited on his talk show a discussion his best friend, after it was revealed that the latter had been a Securitate informant who regularly furnished information on Tanase himself.