Melinda Crane

Crane during the IAEA Scientific Forum 2019

Melinda Crane-Röhrs (born November 18, 1956 in Boston , Massachusetts as Melinda Crane ) is an American journalist , political commentator , publicist and presenter who has lived in Germany since the mid-1980s.

Life

Melinda Crane grew up in the USA and came to Germany in 1983 on a DAAD short scholarship. After several years of employment as a research assistant at the Institute for Foreign and Business Law at the University of Frankfurt , she worked as a journalist and decided to stay in the country, partly out of interest in Germany's handling of its history and identity.

She studied history at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island, and law at Harvard Law School in Cambridge , Massachusetts . She then studied Political Economy at the in Medford / Somerville (Massachusetts) nearby University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she in 1987 with the work of The Political Economy of Multilateral Technical Assistance: A Case Study of United Nations Mineral Exploration Projects doctorate.

After graduating, Crane turned to journalism . She has worked for various US and German television channels , including PBS , Südwestfunk and Deutsche Welle , for which she produced documentaries and reports on current European politics. For example, after the fall of the Berlin Wall , she provided impressions from Eastern Europe and reported on the Balkan conflict . Crane has also written for various newspapers such as The Christian Science Monitor , The Boston Globe, and The New York Times Magazine.

1992-1998 she was the producer of the TV documentary "Challenge to America".

Until 2008 she was Senior Producer of the international talk show by Sabine Christiansen , Global Players , which was broadcast worldwide on CNBC . Crane currently works as chief political correspondent for the English program at the German international television broadcaster Deutsche Welle TV , where she moderates the political talk show Quadriga and the news magazine “People & Politics”. She also comments on US politics for the news channel n-tv . She often analyzes American and transatlantic politics for various German radio and television stations .

Among other things, Crane worked as a journalist on several information programs for the WDR press club format from 2002 to 2009 . In 2007 she appeared on the ARD talk show, Menschen bei Maischberger, and in 2008 she was a guest presenter on rbb television in the talk show Dickes B. moderated by Jörg Thadeusz . In February 2011 she was one of the guests on the ZDF talk show Maybrit Illner with the topic “Chance for freedom or the Islamists? ”and in November 2013 she was one of the guests on the ARD talk show Beckmann , which dealt with the so-called NSA affair .

Melinda Crane lives in Berlin and has two children. After her marriage, she used to have the official surname Crane-Engel , under which she did her doctorate in 1987 and later published in part. Since another marriage in 2012, she officially has the last name Crane-Röhrs .

Web links

Commons : Melinda Crane  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Portrait of Melinda Crane at DW-World.de
• Melinda Crane in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Our guest from December 13th, 2009 Melinda Crane, presenter and journalist | Guest list | DW | December 15, 2009. Archived from the original on June 5, 2017 ; Retrieved May 25, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} See information about Melinda Crane at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) ; accessed on January 11, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b} See information about Melinda Crane ( Memento of February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at the Hamburg Media School , as an archive version on Archive.is ; accessed on January 11, 2014.
4. ↑ ^{a b} See information on Melinda Crane-Engel's dissertation on the Tufts University website ; accessed on January 11, 2014.
5. ↑ ^{a b} See entries about Melinda Crane at the IMDb (see web links).