Dhimiter Gjoka
“The great master” | Director, journalist and television moderator.
He remains one of the symbolic figures as the head of the “Revista Televizive” in TVSH as well as the News Edition in various televisions after the 90s.
A long career in over 45 consecutive years on television from November 10, 1974, to November 10, 2019, in front of the Radio and Television microphone. He stood out in the articulation of the word and the purity of the Albanian language. During these 45 years, the pure voice and the mastery of artistic speech have always been the distinguishing marks of Dhimiter Gjoka, which drew the viewer to the small television screen or with his ear to the radio set.
Gjoka was born in Himare on November 6, 1955. As a child, his parents and grandparents tried to introduce him to the flow of art. They often nurtured his passion for reading, stories, taught him poems by different authors, apart from the ones he did at school. He was often given the opportunity to recite at various events when he was in elementary school and when he was 8 years old.
In high school he also performed in the theater. Until the high school years there was a lively artistic activity. Contrary to the desire to continue his studies in high school, he leaves to perform his military service in Farke in the helicopters regiment. Here too he will be active as an actor in theater festivals among the army regiments. He is known and put in contact with many well-known figures of the performing arts, he works with the “People’s Artist” Marie Logoreci as a director.
During this time, he wins a contest on Radio Tirana for announcer with the maximum number of votes. Although a soldier, he becomes an external collaborator of Radio. During three years of military service, he was entrusted with the microphone of many shows, radio news magazine. He is known more with the radio microphone masters, the real professionals from Piro Noti, Elsa Xhaji, Meropi Mathia, Liljana Meçani, Vera Zheji, to journalists and directors such as Agron Çobani or Xhelil Aliu.
This experience will create for him the base of a profile that will later turn into one of the symbols of the microphone and the art of speaking. After completing his military service, he competes and wins the right to study at the High Institute of Arts, where he graduates in directing in 1983. After that, he moves to Television, without breaking away from radio.
After finishing the ILA, he was appointed a director at the “Teatri Popullor”, but he was kept from television, leaving his dream for the stage to be a director and an actor together with the luminaries of art suspended. So fate did not allow him to exercise the profession of a director in the Theater, but a great power like politics made Dhimiter Gjoka continue working in Television, where for the leaders of this institution it was a great discovery. Anyway, as he himself has affirmed
Television will give him satisfaction, recognition, and appreciation, open many windows for him, and climb the ladder, even being awarded with national awards. he also worked as a director in various television shows such as “Rubrika Sportive”, news, documentaries, tele reports and even shows.
Awards and titles
In 1986 he was awarded the gold medal as the best speaker at the 6th Albanian documentary and cartoon festival.
Presenter of song festivals on RTSH, spectacles, Decades of May concerts…
In 1993, he graduated brilliantly in electronic journalism at the Greek Radio and Television ERTI.
In 1997-1999 he was appointed Artistic Director of Albanian Television.
In 1999 he was awarded the “LUX CLARIOR” Award at the international documentary festival held in Assisi, Italy for the direction and script of the documentary “O JETO”.
In 1999-2000 Director of national television TVA.
In 2000, on the 40th anniversary of Albanian Television, he was awarded the “ANTENA E ARTË” award for outstanding television contribution.
In 2000-2002, chief director at Albanian Television.
In 2002-2004, he founded ALSAT National Television professionally together with the working group.
Also, in his long television career, he has directed and scripted over 40 documentaries together. Thousands of hours of work directing many live or recorded broadcasts of the departments of culture, economy, information, children’s sports. Director of more than 300 national and international football matches. Reporter of hundreds of informative chronicles in the TVSH information department, as well as many articles in the daily press.
From 1976 onwards, live nightly in the central news editions as an announcer on televisions TVSH, ALSAT, and finally on TCH.
Actor in several interpretations with first and second roles such as:
Drama Monserati – in the role of Monserati. Academy of Arts year 1983.
– Drama “The man who saw death with his own eyes” – in the role of George. Academy of Arts 1983. Recorded in RTSH and in some other dramas with the professional theater of the city of Vlora.
He has published 4 books so far. Two of which for the field of television theory. “Television for yourself and for you” as well as “Tv screen Aesthetic reflections for the image”. Another book is “I fell in love with Saudia”, the impression of the trip from Saudi Arabia, and finally “Journey between the Stars”, an autobiographical book.
In 2014, the Union of Albanian Journalists awarded him the Career Award.
He fully deserves the high title of “Grand Master”
Photo gallery of George's role in the comedy "The man who saw death with his eyes"!
Gjoka`s Quotation: “There are no regimes in the profession. The profession is the same everywhere. If you’re a good professional, it doesn’t mean you have to be a good partisan. You may not count the political side of things at all. And if you look at your work, that is, if you practice your profession, to the right degree and level, politics does not enter here anymore. Even under the dictatorship, in our country, the profession was the same as it is now. So in TVSH as then, even now, the profession does not have any difference in essence. It is different if we talk about the content that brings the form, and that dictates the way of standing. If at the time of the dictatorship things were a little more strict and within certain frameworks, the new wind after the 90s stripped them of this way of thinking. But the profession remained the same as then, even now”
The exclusivity on this page is dated March 29, 2022.
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Albanian cinematography in activity since 2013
Reference: Selection of information from the online press and interviews with the artist himself. Also, the “Great Master” Dhimiter Gjoka himself helped in correcting the information, whom we sincerely thanks!
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