Aline Abboud

Last updated

Aline Abboud
2023-09-28-Aline Abboud Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2023 -8702.jpg
Abboud in 2023
Born (1988-01-23) 23 January 1988 (age 36)
East Berlin, East Germany
Education Leipzig University
Employer ARD
Known forPresenting Tagesthemen

Aline Abboud (born 23 January 1988) [1] is a German journalist and television presenter. Having studied Arab studies at Leipzig University, she worked for the German public broadcaster ZDF as an editor and reporter with a focus on foreign affairs. Since September 2021, Abboud presents Tagesthemen , a daily news magazine broadcast by ARD. She is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to hold this position.

Contents

Early life and education

Aline Abboud was born in 1988 in East Berlin, [2] then part of the German Democratic Republic, to a Lebanese father and a German mother. [3] She read Arab studies at Leipzig University with stints in Beirut and Istanbul. [4] Speaking to Leipziger Volkszeitung in 2021, Abboud said that she had always wished to become a journalist to cover the Middle East, and that she had chosen her field of study with this wish in mind. [5] After her studies, she volunteered at the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament. [6]

Career

In 2016 Abboud became an editor at heute , a news programme broadcast by ZDF, one of Germany's two public broadcasters. She also presented heuteXpress on the same channel. From 2018, she contributed to auslandsjournal, a ZDF format on foreign affairs, as a reporter. Since 2019, she presents "DIE DA OBEN!" for the streaming service Funk. Abboud has acted as a producer on a documentary (Und jetzt Wir) about youth protests for Arte. [2] She serves on the advisory board of the Candid Foundation, a nonprofit organisation focussing on the Southern Mediterranean and Western Asia. [7]

In 2021 Abboud joined the public broadcaster ARD to succeed Pinar Atalay [8] on Tagesthemen , the channel's flagship [5] daily news magazine. [9] She is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to be appointed to this position. [3] On 4 September 2021, she made her debut appearance on the programme. [9]

Private life

She has one child. [10]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ZDF</span> German public-service television broadcaster

ZDF, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany. ZDF is financed by television licence fees and advertising revenues.

Tagesthemen is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Helge Fuhst, Aline Abboud, Ingo Zamperoni and Jessy Wellmer. Second only to the 20:00 TagesschauTagesthemen is ARD's most important newscast. It is different in style and content from Tagesschau and is broadcast Mondays to Thursdays at 22:15, Fridays at 23:15, Saturdays at varying times and Sundays at 22:45. On special news occasions, a Tagesthemen extra is also broadcast before the main show. Each Tagesthemen broadcast has a single host, a single newsreader for the news block, usually from the earlier Tagesschau, a weather presenter broadcasting from Frankfurt, and a presenter for the sports block on the weekends. Previously recorded Tagesthemen newscasts can also be seen internationally via YouTube on Tagesschau's YouTube Channel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marietta Slomka</span> German journalist (born 1969)

Marietta Slomka is a German journalist who has been the anchor of TV news show heute-journal since 2001.

This is a list of German television related events from 1982.

This is a list of German television related events from 2000.

This is a list of German television related events from 2002.

This is a list of German television related events from 2005.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Klaus-Peter Siegloch</span> Former German journalist and lobbyist

Klaus-Peter Siegloch is a former German journalist and lobbyist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pinar Atalay</span> German radio and television presenter

Pinar Atalay is a German radio and television presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dunja Hayali</span> German journalist and television presenter

Dunja Hayali is a German journalist and television presenter for public broadcaster ZDF. She has an interest in sports, and is also known for her social activism.

This is a list of German television related events from 1987.

This is a list of German television related events from 1989.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim</span> German chemist, science communicator, television presenter and YouTuber

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim is a German chemist, science communicator, television presenter and YouTuber. In June 2020 she was elected to the senate of the Max Planck Society.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bettina Schausten</span> German journalist

Bettina Schausten is a German journalist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julia Büchler</span> German television presenter, radio reporter and journalist

Julia Büchler is a German television presenter, radio reporter and journalist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ingo Zamperoni</span> German journalist and presenter

Ingo Antonio Zamperoni is a German news presenter and journalist. Between 2012 and 2014, he was the presenter of the Tagesthemen news magazine on the Das Erste channel, a role he continued in October 2016 upon returning from deployment as the ARD correspondent in Washington, D.C., between 2014 and 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jana Pareigis</span> German journalist and television moderator

Jana Pareigis is a German journalist and television moderator. She is the first black woman in German news journalism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sarah Valentina Winkhaus</span> German television presenter

Sarah Valentina Winkhaus is a German television presenter, who presents in German, Italian and English.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julia Scharf</span> German television presenter

Julia Scharf is a German television presenter.

Barbara Dickmann is a German journalist.

References

  1. ↑ "Aline Abboud: Familie, Herkunft und Karriere der ARD-Moderatorin". 24hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Aline Abboud wird Moderatorin bei den tagesthemen". tageschau.de (in German). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 "In die erste Reihe". sueddeutsche.de (in German). 21 June 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "Neue Tagesthemen-Sprecherin: Dem Ritual will sie nicht folgen". 24hamburg.de (in German). 3 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Leipziger Uni-Alumna moderiert erstmals die "Tagesthemen"". LVZ.de (in German). 4 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "Leipziger Uni-Absolventin wird neue Tagesthemen-Moderatorin". LVZ.de (in German). 21 June 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  7. ↑ "Our Advisory Board". candid-foundation.org . Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  8. ↑ Atalay, Pinar (21 June 2021). "Aline Abboud wird Moderatorin bei den Tagesthemen". Tagesschau . Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  9. 1 2 "So lief die Premiere der neuen "Tagesthemen"-Moderatorin". welt.de (in German). 5 September 2021.
  10. ↑ ""Tagesthemen"-Moderatorin Aline Abboud ist Mutter geworden" (in German). T-Online. 26 April 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.