Judith Rakers
| Judith Rakers | |
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 Judith Rakers in 2012 | |
| Born |
6 January 1976 Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany |
| Station(s) | ARD |
| Country | Germany |
| Website | judithrakers.com |
Judith Rakers (born 6 January 1976 in Paderborn, West Germany)[1][2] is a German journalist and television presenter.
Biography
Rakers 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, Rakers worked as a radio presenter at the NRW-local radio stations; Radio Hochstift and Antenne Münster.
From January 2004 to 17 January 2010, Rakers presented the Hamburg Journal for local TV-station Norddeutscher Rundfunk.
Since 2005, Rakers presents the Tagesschau news programme on ARD, as well as reading the news in the Tagesthemen, Nachtmagazin and Morgenmagazin.[3] 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.
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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 |