Judith Rakers

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Judith Rakers
Rakers in 2018
Born	(1976-01-06) 6 January 1976 (age 45) Paderborn, West Germany
Occupation	Journalist, TV presenter
Years active	Early 2000s – present
Career
Station(s)	ARD
Country	Germany
Website	judithrakers.com

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

Biography[]

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.

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.

References[]

External links[]

• Judith Rakers' official website

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