Andreas Klinner

Andreas Klinner (born September 1, 1969 in West Berlin ) is a German journalist and television presenter .

Life

After graduating from the Canisius College in Berlin in 1990, Klinner began studying economics and journalism at the Free University of Berlin and the Catholic University of Eichstätt . Until he graduated in 1996, he was also a freelancer for radio stations in Berlin, Hanover and Kiel. In 1991, Andreas Klinner became editor and TV presenter at TV from Berlin (FAB). There he moderated a. a. the youth talk show “Wanted Alive” and, alternating with Andrea Kiewel, the city ​​magazine “Fenster aus Berlin”, which is broadcast on the terrestrial RTL frequency.

In the summer of 1992, Klinner took part in a casting by the Doppelpunkt editorial team, who were looking for successors for the present moderators Michael Steinbrecher and Barbara Stöckl . From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a reporter for the ZDF youth magazine Doppelpunkt . In 1995 he presented the comedy show Werk II from the former factory of the same name in Leipzig - Connewitz . Then Andreas Klinner became the moderator and head of the ZDF morning magazine service . Afterwards he worked from 1999 to 2001 as a personal advisor to the ZDF editors-in-chief Klaus Bresser and Nikolaus Brender . In 2005, Klinner became the second correspondent at the ZDF foreign studio in Italy in Rome , where he was responsible in particular for reporting from the Vatican until 2007 .

Since then, Andreas Klinner has been head of duty and TV presenter of the weekday ZDF news program today - in Europe as well as presenter of ZDF special . He also occasionally takes on the representation of the ZDF programs auslandsjournal and Länderspiegel as well as the afternoon and weekend editions of heute news. From September 2011 until it was discontinued in June 2012, he also took turns moderating the Sunday program blickpunkt with Anja Heyde . In addition, Klinner presents the international journal extra on 3sat and has been moderating the ARD / ZDF event broadcaster Phoenix in Bonn since April 2013 , where he conducts the programs “Vor Ort” and “Thema” a few weeks a year. Since April 2014, Andreas Klinner has been alternating with Ralph Szepanski in moderating the late evening ZDF broadcast tonight .

Andreas Klinner is a lecturer in the media workshop of the journalism course at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and is involved in the ecumenical Martine Society, which supports social institutions in Berlin and Brandenburg . Klinner lives with his family near Frankfurt am Main.