Antonia Rados

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Antonia Rados (born June 15, 1953 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian television journalist .

Life

Antonia Rados studied political science in Paris and Salzburg . The doctor of political science worked from 1978 to 1991 for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) as a correspondent in Chile , South Africa , Somalia and Iran, among others . In 1989 she became known in Austria for her ORF coverage of the Romanian revolution and was named “Woman of the Year” in 1991. In the same year she switched to WDR as a special correspondent . From 1995 to 2008 she worked as a foreign correspondent for the media group RTL Germany in war and crisis regions. There were also numerous reports for RTL and n-tv .

During the Iraq war in 2003, she won the attention of a large audience when she reported live from Baghdad for the television stations RTL and n-tv . She has received several awards for her reports (for example from Bosnia and Herzegovina , South Africa, Somalia, Iran and Afghanistan ), including the German TV Prize and the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for TV Journalism. She was also awarded the Austrian Romy Media Prize in 2003 for her RTL documentary Our Friend Saddam .

In spring 2008 she moved to ZDF and was supposed to strengthen the team of the heute-journal there. On January 1st, 2009 Rados went back to Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland as chief reporter abroad. Rados was bothered by the structures of public television and was dissatisfied with the working conditions.

In March 2011, Rados interviewed Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi . In August 2016, Rados interviewed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .

Antonia Rados lives today with her partner in Paris .

Awards

Works

  • The Securitate conspiracy. Romania's betrayed revolution. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-455-08378-1 .
  • Quota fever. Diana, Munich / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-8284-0012-4 (novel).
  • Gucci versus Allah. The struggle for the new Middle East. Heyne, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-12040-X (Updated paperback edition: Heyne Taschenbuch 645.11, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-453-64511-0 ).
  • Live from Baghdad. A war reporter's diary. Updated new edition edition. Heyne, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-64516-5 (first edition: 2003, ISBN 3-453-87724-1 ).
  • Thank you for receiving two atomic bombs. Everyday life in Ahmadinejad's Iran. Heyne, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-453-14302-7 (updated new edition: In the land of the mullahs. How a reporter experiences Iran. Heyne Taschenbuch 620.30, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-62030-8 ).
  • The fronts are everywhere. From everyday life in war reports. In: with Hannes Haas (ed.): Theodor Herzl lecture. Picus, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85452-648-3 .
  • The Belly Dancer and the Salafist: A True Story from Cairo. Amalthea Signum, 2014, ISBN 978-3-85002-876-9 (2nd edition, 224 pages).

Web links

Commons : Antonia Rados  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonia Rados. In: rtl.de. Accessed on May 30, 2014 : "Antonia Rados, who has a doctorate in political science, is chief reporter abroad at Mediengruppe RTL [...]."
  2. ↑ Foreign reporter leaves the ZDF. Spiegel Online, November 9, 2008, accessed November 10, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Departure from ZDF - Antonia Rados returns to RTL. FAZ.net, November 8, 2009, accessed November 8, 2009 .
  4. ↑ RTL reporter Antonia Rados speaks to Gaddafi: Interview with a dictator. RP Online, March 15, 2011, accessed March 15, 2011 .
  5. ↑ The full-length exclusive interview: Erdogan accuses the EU of double standards. n-tv, August 13, 2016, accessed on August 13, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize
  7. ^ Robert Geisendörfer Prize
  8. ↑ Bavarian television award for Antonia Rados. In: "RTL.de". June 11, 2011, accessed on June 13, 2011 : "At the 23rd Bavarian Television Awards, Antonia Rados received a special prize worth 10,000 euros for her Middle East reporting (RTL / n-tv)."
  9. ↑ Press release of the BZK Pfalz
  10. ↑ Gold for Rados, silver for Roither from Ö1 - The media lionesses were awarded , APA report from November 5, 2014, accessed on November 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Rados, Antonia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee