Constantin Schreiber | |
---|---|
Born | |
Nationality | German |
Occupations | |
Known for | Anchorman at the ARD |
Constantin Schreiber (born 14 June 1979) is a German journalist working for German and Arabic language TV stations.
Constantin Schreiber was born in Cuxhaven. [1] As a teenager, Schreiber learned Arabic while spending time in Syria. [2] He holds a law degree and worked as a journalist for the Lebanese newspaper Daily Star from 2006 to 2007. After that, he was a news correspondent for Deutsche Welle in Dubai and accompanied German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her first trip through the Middle East. [3] From 2009 to 2011, Schreiber served as a media consultant for the Middle East at the German Federal Foreign Ministry. [4]
Since 2012, Schreiber has worked as a host and Middle East expert for the German TV channel n-tv. [5] In addition, he also hosts the German-Arabic TV series SciTech - Our World Tomorrow which is aired on ONTV (Egypt) [6] and Sultanate of Oman Television. [7]
In January 2017, Schreiber switched to ARD aktuell, where he hosted the early and weekend editions of the Tagesschau , as well as the Nachtmagazin. From March 2017 to December 2020, Schreiber also hosted the NDR program Zapp – Das Medienmagazin as the successor of Inka Schneider. [8] [9] [10]
In 2017, his German book Inside Islam. Was in Deutschlands Moscheen gepredigt wird. (English translation: Inside Islam – What's Preached in Germany's Mosques) appeared in the German Econ Verlag [11] as well as the TV series Moscheereport (English translation: Mosque Report) on tagesschau24. [12] [13] For the research of these two works, Schreiber and a camera crew visited almost 20 ordinary mosques in Germany and translated their Khutbah . The research was harshly criticized by the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung in March 2017 [14] and German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur in April 2017. [15]
In September 2020, it was announced that he and Julia-Niharika Sen would be part of the news team of the 8 p.m. Tagesschau from 2021. [16] He read his first 8 p.m. edition on 4 January 2021. [17]
Schreiber lives in Hamburg with his wife and two children. [18]
Schreiber is the author of:
Islam's significance in Germany has largely increased after the labour migration in the 1960s and several waves of political refugees since the 1970s.
ARD is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services – in particular the introduction of a joint television network.
Tagesschau is a German national and international television news service produced by the editorial staff of ARD-aktuell on behalf of the German public-service television network ARD.
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, commonly shortened to RBB, is an institution under public law for the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg, based in Berlin and Potsdam. RBB was established on 1 May 2003 through the merger of Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) and Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB), based in Potsdam, and is a member of the Association of PSBs in the Federal Republic of Germany (ARD).
Jürgen Schreiber was a German investigative journalist and author based in Berlin. He was a regular contributor to Berlin's daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel on matters concerning Germany's past in World War II and in the fine arts. Schreiber's (non-official) biography in 2005 of the German painter Gerhard Richter, gained much recognition when he exposed the fact that Richter's own aunt was murdered by Richter's late father-in-law, a doctor in the SS.
Eva Bischoff, known as Eva Herman, is a German author and former television presenter. She worked as a news presenter on the nationwide Tagesschau news programme from 1989 to 2006 and also presented various other television programmes for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk until 2007. In 2003, an opinion poll by TNS Emnid declared Herman to be "Germany's favourite presenter".
Gerhard Herm was a German journalist and writer.
Tagesschau24 is a German free-to-air television channel owned by ARD and managed by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. It was launched on 30 August 1997 as "EinsExtra" before it became the current name on 1 May 2012.
Heiko Engelkes was a German journalist.
Matthias "Max" Otte is an economist, publicist and political activist who holds German and U.S. citizenship. Otte, who has held professorships in Worms, Graz and Erfurt, is currently a fund manager. He has written several bestsellers, mainly on financial policy topics.
Elham Manea is a Swiss-Yemeni writer, professor, and human rights advocate. She is known for her human rights advocacy, especially for her defence of women's rights, freedom of expression, freedom of/from religion, minority and LGBT rights in the Arab and Islamic world (s). She has participated in several human rights campaigns in the MENA region and is considered part of the Islamic feminist movement that insists on the possibility of gender equality in Muslim majority countries. She has led mixed prayers in London, Bern, Berlin, Cape Town and Oxford in cooperation with inclusive mosques and open mosques initiatives.
Eberhardt Alexander Gauland is a German politician, journalist and lawyer who has served as leader of the right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and co-leader of the party from December 2017 to November 2019. He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and was its federal spokesman from 2017 to 2019 and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg from 2013 to 2017.
RT DE is a German-language television channel based in Moscow, with a former office in Berlin. It is part of the RT network, a Russian state-controlled international television network, funded by the Russian government.
Attila Klaus-Peter Hildmann is a German vegan cookbook author and far-right conspiracy theorist. He has described himself as "ultra-right-wing" and as a German nationalist. He was repeatedly characterized as antisemitic. He has been wanted with a European arrest warrant by German prosecutors since 2021 and is on the run.
The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque is the only self-described liberal mosque in Germany. It was inaugurated in June 2017, and is named after medieval Andalusian-Arabic polymath Ibn Rushd and German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The mosque was founded by Seyran Ateş, a German lawyer and Muslim feminist of Kurdish descent. The mosque is characterised as liberal; it bans face-covering, it allows women and men to pray together, and it accepts LGBT worshippers.
Constantin Nicolaus Johannes Joachim Fest is a German politician and former journalist, who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament.
Boris Reitschuster is a German journalist and author. He is considered an expert on Eastern Europe and became known for his books on contemporary Russia. He was the head of the Moscow bureau of the German weekly FOCUS from 1999 until August 2015.
Shams Ul Haq Qudoos is a German-Pakistani journalist and author.