Maybrit Illner

Maybrit Illner (2016)

Maybrit Illner (born 12 January 1965 in East Berlin) as Maybrit Klose is a German journalist and TV presenter.

Education

Illner went to school in the Friedrichshain area of Berlin, afterwards she studied journalism at the University of Leipzig from 1984 to 1988. She joined the SED in 1986, but left the party again in 1991.

Career

After university, she worked as a television journalist at Deutscher Fernsehfunk, East German state television, until it was dissolved in 1991. Illner joined German broadcaster ZDF and co-presented Morgenmagazin, a weekday morning show from 1992. She became the head of the Morgenmgazin in 1998. From October 1999 she has presented an evening talk show originally titled Berlin Mitte, but changed in March 2007 to Maybrit Illner. She has anchored ZDF's news show heute-journal since September 2010, in rotation with Claus Kleber and Marietta Slomka.

Personal life

She was married to fellow television journalist Michael Illner (born 1962) from 1988 to 2007. She married René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom on 14 August 2010. They live in Berlin and Bonn. She supports the association "Gesicht zeigen!" for a cosmopolitan Germany. The association campaigns nationwide against xenophobia, racism, antisemitism and right-wing violence.

Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2012 - Maybrit Illner - Rene Obermann

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