Maybrit Illner is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

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Life

After school in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

-Friedrichshain

Friedrichshain

Friedrichshain is a part of Berlin's borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, and like Kreuzberg across the river it has its own distinct character, with the result that the new double name is hardly ever used outside government administration. From its creation in 1920 until Berlin's 2001...

 Illner studied from 1984 to 1988 journalism at University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

 in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

. Since 1992 Illner worked for German broadcaster ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

 (programme Morgenmagazin). Since October 1999 she presents programme Berlin Mitte (name changed in March 2007 to Maybrit Illner talk show) Since September 2010 she moderates together with Claus Kleber

Claus Kleber

Claus Kleber is a German journalist. He is the anchorman of the news show heute journal of ZDF, a German public TV station...

 and Marietta Slomka

Marietta Slomka

Marietta Slomka is a German journalist.- Life :Slomka studied international politics and economics at university of Cologne. After university studies Slomka worked from 1991 to 1996 for Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft. As television journalist she works on German broadcaster ZDF...

 German news-programme heute-journal on ZDF.
After her first marriage with Michael Illner she married René Obermann on 14 August 2010 . They live in Berlin and Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

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Awards

• 2003: Bayerischer Fernsehpreis
  Bayerischer Fernsehpreis
  Bayerischer Fernsehpreis is an award presented by the government of Bavaria, Germany since 1989.- 2010 :* Nina Gummich, Nachwuchsförderpreis * Klaus Doldinger, Bavarian Prime Minister's Prize- 2009 :...
  
  
• 2009: Goldene Kamera
• 2006: Hildegard-von-Bingen-Award

External links

• ZDF:Maybrit Illner
• Maybrit Illner in Zeit interview