Anna Engelke (journalist)

Anna Engelke (* 1969 in Unna ) is a German radio journalist . She has been the press spokesperson for the German Federal President since 2017 .

Life

Engelke grew up in the Bövinghausen district of Dortmund and spent a year as an exchange student in New Jersey in 1986 . After graduating from the Bert-Brecht-Gymnasium , she studied business administration at the Mannheim University of Cooperative Education and also trained at Siemens Nixdorf . Since 1992 she has worked as a journalist, first at the Westfalenpost in Menden, then at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Dortmund. In 1995 and 1996 Engelke completed an internship at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and then worked there as a radio editor. In 1997 she became an editor in the NDR parliamentary office in Bonn and in 2000 a correspondent for the NDR in the ARD capital studio in Berlin. From July 2007 to 2012 Engelke worked as a radio correspondent in Washington. Then she was one of the press spokeswoman for ARD at Norddeutscher Rundfunk until 2015 . Engelke has been head of the ARD capital studio for NDR radio in Berlin since 2016. In February 2017 it was announced that Engelke would become the spokeswoman for the designated Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier .

Anna Engelke has been married to the journalist Jörg Thadeusz since March 3, 2011 . She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the German AFS Intercultural eV

Fonts

• (with Jörg Thadeusz ): The United Ingredients of America: Life stories from a great country . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04451-5
• (Ed. with Jörg Thadeusz): Ruhr area between Sekt and Selters . Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-927482-68-5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Future Federal President: NDR journalist Engelke will be Steinmeier's spokeswoman. SPIEGEL ONLINE, accessed on February 13, 2017 . 
2. ^ AFS Board of Trustees. Retrieved July 6, 2019 . 

Web links

• ARD: Correspondents