Isabel Schayani

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Isabel Schayani with the Grimme Prize on April 5, 2019.

Isabel Schayani (born February 26, 1967 in Essen ) is a German-Iranian television journalist in the Foreign / Tagesschau section of Westdeutscher Rundfunk .

Life

Isabel Schayani grew up in Essen . She is the daughter of a Persian father and a German mother. Her father came to Germany in the 1950s.

In her senior school years, Schayani already worked for radio, for the WDR youth radio “Riff” and as a presenter of “Logo!” With children's news from ZDF . She studied Islamic studies , modern history and international law in Bonn and learned the Arabic language . She completed her master's thesis on legal opinions by contemporary muftis on dealing with non-Muslims .

After completing her studies and at the beginning of her professional career , Schayani volunteered at WDR and became an editor for ARD Morgenmagazin , moderated on radio ( Funkhaus Europa , WDR 5 ) and wrote for Frankfurter Allgemeine and Süddeutsche Zeitung . Then she switched to the migration-political multicultural magazine Cosmo TV , which she moderated until 2006. From August 2005, she was a member of the Monitor editorial team for nine years . From September 2014 to October 2015 Schayani reported for ARD from New York City for one year .

After her return she dealt, among other things, with Germany in the refugee crisis . Her preferred topics are migration, integration and media . Since January 2016 she has been responsible for the online project "WDRforyou", which is published in Persian, Arabic, English and German. An encounter with Federal President Joachim Gauck brought her to the front page of the Bild newspaper in April 2016 during a live streaming for refugees at Bellevue Palace . Since 2009 (with an interruption in 2014–2016) she has been commenting on the daily topics for WDR and has been part of the Weltspiegel moderation team since September 18, 2016 .

In addition to her journalistic work, Schayani was also engaged as an editor . She worked on a book entitled "Iran in the 19th Century and the Origin of the Bahāʾī Religion ". She is a member of this religion.

Awards

Together with Esat Mogul, Schayani received the German Social Prize in the “Television” category in 2014 for Germany's new slums - the business with immigrants from poverty

In 2017 she received the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Special Prize with the editorial team of WDRforyou and was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University .

In 2019 Isabel Schayani received the Grimme Prize for “special journalistic achievements” for her overall journalistic achievement.

Web links

Commons : Isabel Schayani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The WDR program "Cosmo TV" qantara.de, accessed on September 9, 2016
  2. ^ Editor Isabel Schayani . 1.wdr.de. Accessed September 8, 2016
  3. ↑ The whole world lives in New York . ndr.de. 28 April 2014
  4. ↑ Returning to another country . tagesschau.de from October 27, 2015
  5. ↑ WDRforyou in Persian wdr.de, accessed on September 13, 2016
  6. ↑ Look who's laughing here! bild.de from April 4, 2016
  7. ↑ Reviewed Work: Iran in the 19th Century and the Emergence of the Bahāʾī Religion jstor.org, accessed September 8, 2016
  8. ↑ Deadly Faith tagesspiegel.de of April 21, 2008
  9. ↑ presseportal: 90 Years of Free Welfare - Awarding of the German Social Prize 2014. Accessed on December 5, 2017 .
  10. ^ Tagesschau: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis. Tagesschau, accessed on May 21, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Schayani: Social Media and Refugees. Center for European Studies, Harvard, accessed May 21, 2017 .
  12. ↑ 55th Grimme Prize 2019 - Isabel Schayani grimme-preis.de, accessed on February 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Shayani, Isabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schayani, Nadja-Isabel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH eat