Astrid Frohloff

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Astrid Frohloff, 2017
Astrid Frohloff 2013

Astrid Frohloff (born August 21, 1962 in Wittingen ) is a German journalist and television presenter .

Life

Astrid Frohloff graduated from high school in Hankensbüttel in 1981 . This was followed by studies in political and literary sciences as well as sociology at the University of Hanover . She studied journalism at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Research of the University of Music and Theater in Hanover and at the University of Texas at Austin . Your diploma thesis from 1990 is entitled "Wessis" writing for "Ossis": Differences and similarities in the editorial concepts of SUPERillu and EXTRA MAGAZINE .

From 1990 to 1992 Frohloff worked as a presenter and editor at RTL Nord before moving to NDR . There she moderated the magazine DAS! and produced numerous films and reports . In 1994 she moved to Jerusalem as a television correspondent . There she set up a television studio for SAT.1 and reported from Israel , the occupied Palestinian territories and the Gaza Strip. During this time there were numerous terrorist attacks and the murder of Itzhak Rabin . She shot TV reports for Spiegel TV , NDR and SAT.1 in Iraq , Lebanon , Jordan and Egypt .

In January 1999 she took over the chief moderation of the program 18.30 - Sat.1 Nachrichten , which she handed over to Thomas Kausch in August 2004 when it was renamed Sat.1 News .

In 2001 Frohloff was nominated for the German Television Award in the category "Best Moderation Information" .

From March 2007 to March 2008 Frohloff moderated the program N24 Wissen on the television station N24 . In addition, as successor to Michael Naumann , she ran the bi-weekly rbb talk show Im Palais from September 2007 to June 2010 . Visiting Astrid Frohloff . From 2009 to 2016, the TV journalist conducted the rbb political magazine Klartext . Since 2009 she has presented the ARD magazine Kontraste .

From December 2003 to September 2015, Frohloff was a managing director of the organization Reporters Without Borders . According to her own admission, she joined the association after seeing journalists in authoritarian states being hindered in their work in the Middle East - two colleagues were even killed during their assignments as reporters in the Iraq war . In 2009 Reporters Without Borders received the Roland Berger Award from Federal President Horst Köhler. Astrid Frohloff is a member of the jury of the Marion Dönhoff Prize , member of the advisory board of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and the Digital Journalism Fellowship of the Hamburg Media School .

At the end of 2018, she left the Kontraste TV magazine to set up a new, socially oriented format at rbb. The first broadcast of this reportage format "Better goes always" by and with Astrid Frohloff was broadcast on May 13, 2019 on rbb and reported on exemplary, innovative and citizen-friendly administrations in Vienna and Barcelona, ​​among others. Further episodes of the 45-minute reports in the "Constructive Journalism" genre are planned.

Astrid Frohloff is married to Jürgen Hogrefe , has two children and lives in Berlin.

literature

Web links

Commons : Astrid Frohloff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ N24 News & Stories - Knowledge ( Memento from November 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Astrid Frohloff moderates “Im Palais” , Berlin-Magazin.info, accessed on May 3, 2011
  3. ↑ Astrid Frohloff at the political magazine "Kontraste" (ARD)
  4. ^ Reporters Without Borders eV: Farewell to Astrid Frohloff . ( reporter-ohne-grenzen.de [accessed on December 26, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Our Board of Directors ( memento of January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Reporters Without Borders, accessed on May 3, 2011
  6. ↑ Reporters Without Borders honored: Interview with Astrid Frohloff ( Memento of December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Europolitan , April 22, 2009, accessed on December 9, 2013
  7. ^ Profile of Astrid Frohloff as a member of the jury of the Marion Dönhoff Prize www.verlag.zeit.de
  8. ↑ Astrid Frohloff, member of the advisory board of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium www.m100potsdam.org
  9. ^ Astrid Frohloff, member of the Advisory Board of the Digital Journalism Fellowship of the Hamburg Media School www.hamburgmediaschool.com
  10. ↑ Frohloff leaves 'Kontraste' for new rbb format. In: Medien, Media. Cision Media Research , August 10, 2018, accessed November 22, 2018 .
  11. ↑ TV report "Better is always" first broadcast on May 13, 2019 in rbb
personal data
SURNAME Frohloff, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittingen