Judith Rakers

Summary

Judith Deborah Rakers (born 6 January 1976) is a German journalist and television presenter.

Judith Rakers
Rakers in 2018
Born
Judith Deborah Rakers

(1976-01-06) 6 January 1976 (age 48)[1][2]
Occupation(s)Journalist, TV presenter
Years activeEarly 2000s – present
Career
StationARD
CountryGermany
Websitejudithrakers.com

Biography edit

Rakers was born in Paderborn, West Germany, and grew up in Bad Lippspringe with her single father. After graduating at Pelizaeus-Gymnasium Paderborn, from 1995 to 2001 she studied journalism and communication studies, German philology and modern and contemporary history at the University of Münster. In parallel, she worked as a radio presenter at the radio stations Radio Hochstift and Antenne Münster.[citation needed]

From January 2004 to 17 January 2010, Rakers presented the Hamburg Journal for local TV station Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

Since 2005, Rakers presents the Tagesschau news programme on ARD, as well as reading the news in the Tagesthemen, Nachtmagazin and Morgenmagazin.[2] In addition to the Tagesschau, Rakers also presents Radio Bremen's talk show 3 nach 9. On 14 May 2011 she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, together with Stefan Raab and Anke Engelke.

References edit

  1. ^ Personal statement on the Talk page in German Wikipedia
  2. ^ a b Tagesschau intern Archived 6 December 2006 at archive.today

External links edit

  Media related to Judith Rakers at Wikimedia Commons

  • Judith Rakers' official website
Preceded by Eurovision Song Contest presenter
2011
With: Anke Engelke and Stefan Raab
Succeeded by