Judith Rakers

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Judith Rakers
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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
Station ARD
CountryGermany
Website judithrakers.com

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

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Biography

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.

From 7 July 2005 to 31 January 2024, Rakers presented the Tagesschau news programme on ARD. [3] [4] She also read the news in the Tagesthemen , Nachtmagazin and Morgenmagazin. [2] 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.

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References

  1. Personal statement on the Talk page in German Wikipedia
  2. 1 2 Tagesschau intern Archived 6 December 2006 at archive.today
  3. MDR um 4: Gäste zum Kaffee: Judith Rakers, ARD-Moderatorin - hier anschauen (in German). Retrieved 3 July 2024 via www.ardmediathek.de.
  4. "Judith Rakers verlässt die tagesschau nach 19 Jahren". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 3 July 2024.

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Preceded by Eurovision Song Contest presenter
2011
With: Anke Engelke and Stefan Raab
Succeeded by