Sonia Seymour Mikich

Sonia Seymour Mikich
Mikich in 2017
Born	(1951-07-13) 13 July 1951 (age 74) Oxford, England
Education	RWTH Aachen Institute of Technology
Occupation	TV journalist
Awards	Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sonia Seymour Mikich (born 13 July 1951 in Oxford) is a German TV journalist.

Education

After studying political sciences, sociology, and philosophy from 1972–1979 at the RWTH Aachen University. She worked as research associate with the institute's Arnold-Gehlen Research Group. In 1985 she received a scholarship from the German Marshall Fund.

Career

• Since 1984 editor and reporter for the WDR's foreign TV broadcasting group
• 1992–1998 – Correspondent in Moscow, since 1995 as first woman to serve as head of the broadcasting studio
• 1998–2001 – Head of the ARD studio in Paris
• Since 2002 chief editor and presenter of the ARD's Monitor newsmagazine
• Since 2004 head of the ARD/WDR documentary magazine Die story, WDR TV, Cologne
• Since 2012 moderator of weekly talk show Presseclub
• 2014–2018 – Editor-in-Chief, WDR TV, Cologne

Her work as chronicler of the First Chechen War in Moscow was awarded in 1998 with the Bundesverdienstkreuz.

On 17 November 2016, Seymour Mikich and Der Spiegel editor-in-chief Klaus Brinkbäumer conducted the only TV interview with President Barack Obama on his last official trip to Germany. ^[1]

Other activities

• Civis Media Foundation, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2013) ^[2]

Filmography

• 1993, Mordsliebe Moskau, WDR 3
• 1993, Brudermord – Putsch 93, ARD
• 1993, Davonfliegen wie Ikarus – Aussteiger im neuen Rußland, WDR
• 1995, Mascha, 15, hat viele Kerle... Jugend in Rußland, WDR
• (mit Telestar 1996 ausgezeichnet)
• 1995, Der Gotteskrieger und die Kellerfrauen, ARD
• 1996, Das Duell – Jelzin gegen Sjuganow, ARD
• 1996, Mein Moskau, WDR
• 1996, Die Krönung – Portrait Boris Jelzin zur Wiederwahl, ARD
• 1996, Zar Boris und die Brandstifter – Tschetschenienkrieg und die Ursachen, ARD
• 1997, Brotlos, aber hochgerüstet – Armee in der Krise, NDR
• 1997, Polarkreis 3. Klasse, WDR
• 1997, Moskau Neon, Moskau Samt – Abschied, ARD
• 1998, Gralssucher und Troubadoure – Pyrenäenreise, ARD
• 1999, Die Sängerin – Korsikareise, ARD
• 2000, Sturm und Licht, Bretagnereise, ARD
• 2000, Spur des Kondor, Peru-Reise, ARD
• 2000, Bretagne-Reise, WDR
• 2000, Korsika-Reise, WDR
• 2000, Flug in den Tod – Concorde-Absturz, ARD
• 2001, Provence auf Nebenwegen, ARD
• 2001, Provence: blau-weiss-roter Traum, ARD

Books

Der Wille zum GlückPlanet Moskau – Geschichten aus dem neuen Russland

References

1. Brinkbäumer, Klaus and Sonia Seymour Mikich (November 18, 2016), Interview with US President Barack Obama: 'We Could See More and More Divisions' Der Spiegel . Retrieved 30 December 2024.
2. "Advisory Board: Sonja Seymour Mikich". Civis Media Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.

External links

• Homepage at the WDR
• Was nun, ferner Bärtiger? (What's next, bearded one?) by Sonia Mikich, die tageszeitung , February 6, 2006 (in German) – English translation at signandsight.com
• Interview with Joseph E. Stiglitz, ARD/Monitor, 14 May 2002