Katrin Sandmann

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Katrin Sandmann (born April 17, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German journalist . From 1995 to 2010 she worked as an editor, reporter and correspondent for the news programs of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and the news channel N24 . Since August 2010 she has headed the “International Documentation” department at “Kobalt Productions” based in Berlin.

Life

She graduated from high school in Hanover in 1985. She then studied theater, film and television studies, art history and Romance studies at the LMU Munich , the Sorbonne and École du Louvre in Paris and graduated in 1993 from the Free University of Berlin with a Magister Artium. Sandmann then went to Tagesspiegel and completed her traineeship in 1993 and 1994 at SAT.1 News in Hamburg, Berlin and Washington.

Career

In 1999, Sandmann reported for several weeks from Kosovo for the news of Sat.1 about the invasion of NATO troops ( Kosovo war ). In the same year she moved to the Middle East as a correspondent. With residences in Jerusalem and Amman, she mainly reported on the bloody clashes of the Intifada . Sandmann also traveled to neighboring countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Egypt and also reported on natural disasters in Africa and the hostage-taking of the Wallert family by the Muslim terrorist group Abu Sajaf in the Philippines. With the international preparations for the Iraq war , Sandmann's reporting and her stay focus increasingly concentrated on Baghdad. She reported on the war and its consequences until 2005, when the Federal Foreign Ministry asked the few remaining German journalists to leave because of the acute danger. Her Iraq coverage earned Sandmann a nomination as the best German TV journalist.

From 2004 to 2010 she was the head of reporting / reporter at N24 in Berlin and also responsible for the assignments of the reporter pool of the private media group. Since then, the focus of her reporting has been on Iran and the war and crisis regions of the world. Sandmann was one of the first international reporters after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, she reported on the tsunami from Sri Lanka, the Lebanon war from Beirut and the embattled south of the country and the consequences of the devastating cyclone Nargis from Myanmar . In 2008 she went to the Washington studio to report on the US election campaign and the financial crisis . In 2009 she was a reporter both in Iran and when a German family was taken hostage in Yemen for her broadcasting group and in early 2010 she was one of the first in the earthquake region in Haiti .

Since August 2010 she has been Head of Documentation and Reporter at Tita von Hardenberg's Kobalt Productions. For her eight-part TV series Kulturkrieger about art and culture in war and crisis areas, Sandmann presented in 2012 and 2013 from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Chechnya, Haiti, Gaza, the Congo and Iraq. Die Welt wrote about the series: “The 'Kulturkrieger' series is one of the most interesting things to see on television. With this series, the public lawyers effortlessly justify the time and again controversial fee system; because the half-hour provides insights into cities that otherwise only appear in the news when there have been particularly heinous assassinations or attacks. That there is also an everyday life in these places of horror and people who oppose the lack of culture, there is no longer any room in our imagination. "

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SURNAME Sandman, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin