Anne Will

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Anne Will (born March 18, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German journalist and television presenter . From 2001 to 2007 she hosted the news program Tagesthemen in the First , and since September 2007 she has been directing the NDR's political talk show Anne Will in the First.

youth

Anne Will grew up as the daughter of a master carpenter and a housewife and former postal worker in Hürth near Cologne. She has an older brother. After graduating from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium , she studied history , political science and English at the University of Cologne and the Free University of Berlin from 1985 . During her studies, she worked as a journalist for the Kölnische Rundschau and the Spandauer Volksblatt and received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . In 1990 she completed her studies in Cologne with a master's degree .

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Anne Will (around 2003)
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After completing her studies, she worked at the Sender Freies Berlin , where she did a traineeship in radio and television from 1991 to 1992 . At the end of 1992, Will became known to a larger audience when she hosted the talk show Mal honest and the Sportpalast for the SFB . From 1996 to 1998 she hosted the WDR media show Parlazzo . From November 1999 she was the first woman to present the male-dominated sports show , which she suddenly made known to a large audience. In 2000 she hosted sports broadcasts from the Sydney Olympic Games for ARD .

As the successor to Gabi Bauer , Will took up her new role as the presenter of the Tagesthemen on April 14, 2001 , initially alternating with Ulrich Wickert , from September 2006 alternating with his successor Tom Buhrow . She moderated her last show on June 24, 2007; then she was replaced by Caren Miosga .

After Günther Jauch had declined the offered position, the directors of ARD chose Will to succeed Sabine Christiansen for her political talk show, which was broadcast for the first time on September 16, 2007 under the name Anne Will . It is produced by Will Media GmbH, of which Anne Will is the managing director. On July 10, 2011, she hosted her last program on this slot, before Günther Jauch took it from September 11, 2011. From then on, your show ran every Wednesday at 10.45 p.m. on Das Erste. Since Jauch's withdrawal at the end of 2015, Anne Will has been broadcast on Sunday evening again (see also Anne Will's gender language ).

In September 2013 she moderated the television duel between Angela Merkel and Peer Steinbrück on five channels ( Das Erste , ZDF , RTL , ProSieben and Phoenix ) together with Maybrit Illner , Peter Kloeppel and Stefan Raab .

Sociopolitical engagement

Will supports various social projects, including a. she is the ambassador of the "Room of Names" in the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin .

She is also one of the best-known first-time signers of Pro Quote . The campaign , which was started by more than 300 female journalists in Germany in February 2012, aims to increase the proportion of women in the management hierarchy of the German media industry to at least 30 percent over the next five years. “The fact that only a fraction of the management positions in the broadcasting corporations and publishing houses are held by women,” writes Will, “is a catastrophic situation.” Obviously nothing would change without a quota .

Will is also involved in the "Scoring Girls" integration project run by Háwar.help . The project aims to inspire girls with a migration background and from difficult social backgrounds for football. At the charity match in Cologne on July 14, 2018, Will trained together with the girls on the soccer field.

Media criticism

Marvin Oppong claimed in a 2009 taz article that the New Social Market Economy Initiative (INSM) had too much influence on its talk show. A few years before the start of her talk show, Anne Will moderated the INSM's “Congress 2002” and interviewed the then BDI President Michael Rogowski . When asked what fee she received for this, Nina Tesenfitz from Will Media said: "Anne Will generally gives no information about her income." On July 24, 2009, the NDR published a correction to the article.

Private life

Will lives in Berlin, but still has strong ties to her hometown Cologne, such as the Cologne Carnival and 1. FC Köln .

In 2007, Will made the longstanding relationship with the communication scientist Miriam Meckel , professor at the University of St. Gallen , public. In 2016 they entered into a registered civil partnership in Düsseldorf . In November 2019, they announced their split.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Anne Will  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Anne Will  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2005 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) p. 73 (PDF file; 4.9 MB)
  2. ↑ a b Portrait: Anne Will - Personal. In: dasErste.NDR.de . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Christopher Keil: Portrait: Anne Will, sporty and humorous Christiansen successor. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 5, 2007, accessed May 20, 2020.
  4. ↑ Markus Brauck, Isabell Hülsen : ARD-Polittalk: Anne Will takes over the broadcasting slot from Günther Jauch. In: Der Spiegel . June 9, 2015, accessed May 20, 2020.
  5. ↑ Joachim Huber: Opinion: Anne Will moderates TV duel - “Quota only for the sake of quota? Not with me". In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 6, 2013, accessed May 20, 2020.
  6. ↑ Report: Celebrities read for schoolchildren in Tagesspiegel from November 17, 2012
  7. ^ Support group Memorial for the Murdered Jews Status: April 17, 2013
  8. ↑ pro-quote.de: The undersigned: Anne Will. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  9. ^ Anne Will meets Scoring Girls. Retrieved September 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Marvin Oppong: The ARD magazine “plusminus” reported in 2005 that three INSM ambassadors were present in an episode of the ARD program “Sabine Christiansen”. A tradition that is apparently also cultivated in the follow-up show "Anne Will". - taz
  11. ^ Anne loves Miriam in Die Tageszeitung from November 19, 2007
  12. ↑ Anne Will's partner: Miriam Meckel and the lesbian cliché in Der Spiegel from March 7, 2010
  13. ^ Anne Will celebrates her wedding in FAZ.net on August 22, 2016.
  14. ↑ Anne Will and Miriam Meckel have separated. In: Die Welt from September 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Will, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne , Germany