Andreas Postel

Andreas Postel

Andreas Postel (born September 15, 1972 ) is a German journalist.

Life

Andreas Postel grew up in the GDR on the Baltic Sea . In the autumn of 1989 he experienced the peaceful revolution in Rostock . Andreas Postel began his journalistic career as a freelance news editor. In 2000 he became a state correspondent at the ZDF state studio Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin . From 2004, Andreas Postel worked as a reporter at the ZDF broadcasting center in Mainz . A number of documentaries and reports were produced during this time. His filming trips have taken him to Germany and abroad, including Poland , Romania , France , India and the South Seas .

In 2008, Andreas Postel became a reporter and editor for the ZDF news magazine heute-journal . During this time he conducted interviews with Bärbel Bohley , Joachim Gauck , Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Richard von Weizsäcker, among others .

During the US midterm elections 2010 he reported for ZDF in Washington, DC Andreas Postel is a fellow of the RIAS Berlin Commission .

From November 2010 to January 2020 Andreas Postel headed the ZDF regional studio Thuringia in Erfurt . During this time the visit of Pope Benedict XVI fell. in Erfurt and Eichsfeld , the NSU series of murders became known and Bodo Ramelow was elected as the first Prime Minister of the Die Linke party in Germany . In September 2014 he and Antje Pieper presented the ZDF reporting on the state elections in Thuringia .

Postel has been the head of the ZDF foreign studio in Rome since February 2020 .

Together with the Ettersberg Foundation , he developed the journalistic live talk format “Conversation in the Cube” at the Andreasstrasse Memorial and Education Center in Erfurt. He has moderated this series of talks ever since. Together with honorary member Iris Berben , he is committed to the Förderverein Buchenwald eV

Prizes and awards

Andreas Postel was awarded the Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists and the Citizens' Prize for German Unity . He was also nominated for the Franco-German Journalism Prize.

Voluntary work and memberships

• Reporters without borders
• Förderverein Buchenwald eV
• State press conference Thuringia
• Network research
• German Association of Journalists
• New Bach Society eV
• Board of Trustees of the Point Alpha Foundation
• Against forgetting - For Democracy eV

Web links

• Biography on the ZDF press portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "If we don't find any answers now, these structures will solidify". March 20, 2015, accessed August 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Honorary member Iris Berben reads poetry in Weimar . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on August 15, 2017]).
3. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Einheitspreis - Citizens' Prize for German Unity 2002-2012 | bpb. Retrieved August 15, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Start - Förderverein Buchenwald eV Retrieved on August 15, 2017 . 
5. ^ New Bach Society. Retrieved on August 15, 2017 (German).