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Judith Rakers

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Judith Rakers
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
StationARD
CountryGermany
Websitejudithrakers.com

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

Biography[edit]

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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Personal statement on the Talk page in German Wikipedia
  2. ^ a b 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.

External links[edit]

Media related to Judith Rakers at Wikimedia Commons

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