Katrin Müller-Walde

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Katrin Müller-Walde (born March 6, 1964 ) is a German journalist .

Professional background

After graduating in economics in 1988, she worked as an announcer for GDR television. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she began her professional career at German television as a presenter of various current programs such as Das Abendjournal , and in cooperation with the SFB , she also presented the popular science program Kopfball . In 1991 the ZDF brought them to Mainz. There she also worked as a film author, presenter and reporter, initially for FM - Das Familienmagazin . She produced films for the current political formats länderjournal , frontal , heute and tonight, among others . The country journal , the successor to tele-illustrated , she moderated from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 onwards, Müller-Walde presented the main edition of today's program at 7:00 p.m. for six years . In 1998 she was appointed editor-in-chief, and the show Volle Kanne was created under her leadership . In 1997 she received the television award Das Goldene Kabel .

In 2000, Müller-Walde founded the media consultancy MW&P Consulting . In 2001, as part of her role as managing director, she took on a lectureship in the marketing department at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences . In parallel to her predominantly advisory work, publications were created in Universitas , Berliner Republik and Die Welt .
From 2002 to 2005 she lived and worked in Washington, DC During this time, the book Why Boys Don't Read More and How We Can Change That, which is part of the coalition agreement of the federal government, was published by Campus-Verlag . brought into public discussion in Germany. The positive response to it is said to have prompted her to become a charity.

Between 2005 and 2010 the presenter reported on current affairs at home and abroad, including for the event and documentary channel Phoenix from ARD and ZDF. As an editor in the field of culture and science, she is responsible for primetime documentaries in the main ZDF program .

Personal

As chairwoman of the federal executive committee, she supported the initiative Mentor - Die Leselernhelfer - non-profit . In 2005 she founded the Hessian regional association of the initiative, which she chaired for a good three years. In 2009 she was elected chairwoman of the board of the federal association.

Müller-Walde is also one of the first signatories and founding members of the non-profit initiative Pro Quote Medien, which started as a swarm movement in 2011. Since 2012 she has been deputy chairwoman of Pro Quote Medien e. V.

Katrin Müller-Walde has a son.

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Katrin Müller-Walde in: Who is who - The German Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 979, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Walde, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1964