Judith Rakers

Judith Rakers (born 6 January 1976 in Paderborn, Germany)[1][2] is a German journalist and television presenter.

Judith Rakers
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Judith Rakers in 2018
Born (1976-01-06) 6 January 1976 (age 48)
Career
Station(s)ARD
CountryGermany

Biography

Rakers grew up in Bad Lippspringe with her single father. She graduated from the Pelizaeus-Gymnasium Paderborn. She studied journalism and communication studies, German philology and modern and contemporary history at the University of Münster. At the same time, Rakers worked as a radio presenter at the NRW-local radio stations; Radio Hochstift and Antenne Münster.[source?]

From January 2004 to 17 January 2010, Rakers presented the Hamburg Journal for local TV station Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

Since 2005, Rakers has presented the Tagesschau news programme on ARD, as well as reading the news in the Tagesthemen, Nachtmagazin and Morgenmagazin.[2]

In addition to the Tagesschau, 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.

References

  1. Personal statement on the Talk page in German Wikipedia
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Tagesschau intern". Archived from the original on 2006-12-06. Retrieved 2013-05-05.

Other websites

Awards and achievements
Preceded by
  Nadia Hasnaoui, Haddy N'jie and Erik Solbakken
2010
Eurovision Song Contest presenter
  (with Anke Engelke and Stefan Raab)
2011
Succeeded by
  Leyla Aliyeva, Nargiz Berk-Petersen and Eldar Gasimov
2012