Judith Rakers

{{short description|German journalist and television presenter (born 1976)}}

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|birth_place = Paderborn, West Germany

|birth_name = Judith Deborah Rakers

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|occupation = Journalist, TV presenter

|years_active = Early 2000s – present

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Judith Deborah Rakers (born 6 January 1976) 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|date=December 2010}}

From January 2004 to 17 January 2010, Rakers presented the Hamburg Journal for local TV station Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

From 7 July 2005 to 31 January 2024, Rakers presented the Tagesschau news programme on ARD.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/mdr-um-4/gaeste-zum-kaffee-judith-rakers-ard-moderatorin/mdr-fernsehen/Y3JpZDovL21kci5kZS9zZW5kdW5nLzI4MjA0MC80MzMwMDEtNDEzNDE0 |title=MDR um 4: Gäste zum Kaffee: Judith Rakers, ARD-Moderatorin - hier anschauen |language=de |access-date=2024-07-03 |via=www.ardmediathek.de}}{{Cite web |title=Judith Rakers verlässt die tagesschau nach 19 Jahren |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/tagesschau-rakers-100.html |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=tagesschau.de |language=de}} She also read the news in the Tagesthemen, Nachtmagazin and Morgenmagazin. Rakers also presents Radio Bremen's talk show {{Lang|de|3 nach 9}}. On 14 May 2011 she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, together with Stefan Raab and Anke Engelke.