Aline Abboud | |
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Education | Leipzig University |
Employer | ARD |
Known for | Presenting 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.
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]
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]
She has one child. [10]
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.
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