Sandra Maischberger 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, talk show host, and author. She is the sister of German archeologist Martin Maischberger.

Born in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Maischberger spent five years of her childhood in Frascati

Frascati

Frascati is a town and comune in the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific...

, near Rome

Rome

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, Italy

Italy

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 and also grew up in Garching

Garching bei München

Garching bei München or Garching is a city in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments. It became a city on 14 September 1990.-Location:...

, near Munich. Her father was an engineer for the Max Planck Society

Max Planck Society

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 and her mother was a tour guide. Her initial career choices while growing up were to become a veterinarian

Veterinarian

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 or a detective

Detective

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. From 1987 to 1989 she trained at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich School of Journalism. During that time, she started her career at the Bayerischer Rundfunk

Bayerischer Rundfunk

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 and has since been working for various television stations including Premiere

Premiere (pay television network)

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, RTL

RTL Television

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, VOX, n-tv

N-tv

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, and ARD

ARD (broadcaster)

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.

Maischberger has written several books including Hand aufs Herz (an interview with Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...

) and Die musst Du kennen — Menschen machen Geschichte, an encyclopaedia of the most prominent scientists, artists and politicians from classical times to the present.

Maischberger has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Golden Camera from the German magazine Hörzu for her Helmut Schmidt interview. Her husband is cameraman Jan Kerhart. After 12 years of marriage, their first child, son Samuel, was born on February 24, 2007. The family has homes in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 and in Berlin

Berlin

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. Maischberger likes to travel and also enjoys mountain climbing and diving. In 2008, she founded an organization called Vincentino, which helps expose underprivileged children to the arts through sponsoring cultural projects in schools.