Linda Zervakis

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Linda Zervakis
Born	25 July 1975  (age 46) Hamburg
Website	https://www.lindazervakis.de/

Linda Zervakis (Greek: Λίντα Ζερβάκη; born 25 July 1975 in Hamburg) is a German-Greek television presenter as well as newsreader and journalist in the editorship of ARD-Aktuell in Hamburg. She is the first Tagesschau presenter with an immigrant background.^[1]

Life[]

Zervakis is the daughter of Greek immigrant guest workers in Hamburg-Harburg, where she attended the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium until 1994. Her father ran a kiosk in Harburg. Following her father's death, Zervakis and her brothers had to help their mother by working in the kiosk while they were still children. Until the age of 28, Zervakis worked on Sundays in the kiosk.

Career[]

After graduation in 1994, Zervakis interned at the advertising agency BBDO, where she was then employed as a copywriter. Later, she worked as a volunteer and editor at various radio and television production companies.

In 2001, Zervakis moved to the NDR. There she was first employed as a newsreader and editor of the radio program N-JOY, beginning in 2004. She was also a news anchor and reporter for the and the Schleswig-Holstein 18 o'clock broadcast. Since 2006, Zervakis moderates the Tagesschau news on tagesschau24. From 2008 to 2010, she was an external reporter on the NDR program My Afternoon.

From February 2009, Zervakis regularly filled in for Gabi Bauer and Ingo Zamperoni in the . In February 2010, she became the female speaker for the Tagesschau. From July 2011 to September 2011, Zervakis also appeared together with in the afternoon program of 1 Live as a holiday replacement.^[2]

On 17 May 2013, Zervakis replaced Marc Bator and became one of the anchors of Tagesschau at 8pm.^[3]

Filmography[]

Memoir[]

• Königin der bunten Tüte. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-63080-4

References[]

External links[]

• Linda Zervakis Official Website
• Linda Zervakis on tagesschau.de
• Linda Zervakis at IMDb 

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