Astrid Randerath

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Astrid Randerath (born April 1, 1965 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German journalist.

Life

Astrid Randerath studied Spanish, German and comparative literature with the minor subjects politics and education at RWTH Aachen University (state examination).

After completing her studies, she completed a radio traineeship and worked as an editor and presenter for various radio and television stations. Radio Rur, Antenne Sachsen Anhalt, WDR . In 1998 she came to ZDF and worked there a. a. as editor for the political magazine Frontal and from 2001 for the follow-up program Frontal21 .

In a survey by the journal Wirtschaftsjournalist among 276 specialist journalists and editors-in-chief, Astrid Randerath and Christian Esser were recognized as the best business journalists of 2009 in the TV / Radio category for the ZDF documentary Das Pharma-Kartell . In the same year they also received the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Förderpreis for their contribution . The "Black Book Deutsche Bahn" became a Spiegel bestseller title. In 2018 she received the Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation's economic journalists' prize for the Frontal21 contribution "Retouren für den Müll", together with Christian Esser, Birte Meier and colleagues from Wirtschaftswoche. In 2019 she also received the journalism award from Deutsche Umwelthilfe in the television category, also together with Birte Meier and Christian Esser.

Fonts

  • with Christian Esser: Black Book Deutsche Bahn. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2010.
  • with Beate Frenkel: The teething troubles: Between pressure to perform and perfection - the business with our children . Herder, 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-31198-7 .
  • with Beate Frenkel: At the children's expense. The billion dollar business with optimizing our children . Herder, 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-06995-6 .

Honors

  • 2019 Journalist Prize from Deutsche Umwelthilfe together with Birte Meier and Christian Esser
  • 2018: Friedrich and Isabel Vogel economic journalist award for "Does someone buy it or can it go / returns for the garbage" together with Christian Esser, Birte Meier, Jaqueline Göbel, Mario Brück and Henrik Hielscher
  • 2009: Best business journalist of the year (together with Christian Esser)
  • 2009: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Förderpreis (together with Christian Esser) for the ZDF television documentary "Das Pharmakartell"
  • 2001: Wilhelm and Ingeborg Roloff Prize of the German Lung Foundation for the ZDF television documentary "Bergarbeiterbronchitis - miners fight for occupational disease pension"
  • 1999: NRW grant from the Heinz Kühn Foundation for investigative reporting on working conditions in the textile industry in Honduras

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pharmakartell authors awarded www.zdf.de
  2. ↑ Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs Prize for TV Journalism, press release 2009
  3. ↑ Journalist Prize of the German Lung Foundation (PDF; 45 kB)
  4. ↑ 12th yearbook of the Heinz Kühn Foundation (PDF) ( Memento from January 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Randerath, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach