Natalie Amiri

Natalie Amiri (2018)

Natalie Amiri (born July 11, 1978 in Munich ) is a German - Iranian journalist and television presenter . Since March 30, 2014, she has moderated the Weltspiegel from Munich, as well as the BR Europe magazine euroblick . From 2015 to April 2020 she headed the ARD studio in Tehran .

Life

Amiri grew up in a German-Iranian family; her father came to Germany from Iran in the mid-1960s. Natalie Amiri studied Oriental Studies with a focus on Iranian Studies at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg , spent a semester abroad in Tehran and Damascus and completed her studies with a degree in Oriental Studies. She then worked for two years in the German embassy in Tehran. From 2007 she reported as a correspondent for ARD from the Tehran studio. Since 2011 Amiri has been working as a freelance journalist for the news programs and magazines Tagesthemen , Tagesschau , ARD Morgenmagazin , ARD Mittagsmagazin as well as the television and radio stations Phoenix , Tagesschau24 , Deutsche Welle , Deutschlandradio and various ARD broadcasters.

On March 30, 2014, Amiri took over the position of moderator of the BR from Bernhard Wabnitz at Weltspiegel im Erste . Since 2017 she has been commenting on current topics in the daily topics for the BR . In 2015 she was nominated for the 9th Marl Media Prize for Human Rights from Amnesty International as the author of "The Story in the First: Death Before Lampedusa - Europe's Fall" . In 2018 she was nominated for the Grimme Prize for her report "Disappeared in Germany - In Search of Missing Refugee Boys" .

On May 1, 2020, Amiri gave up the management of the Tehran ARD studio, which she had held since 2015, as she received a travel warning from the Foreign Office . Her successor is Katharina Willinger . As early as the summer of 2019, the Federal Foreign Office feared that Amiri could be taken as a political hostage in order to use her as leverage for negotiations. As a dual citizen , she is treated by Iran as an Iranian journalist and would therefore have to fear that she would be jailed rather than being expelled like foreign journalists . In addition, she cannot hope for consular assistance. In an interview with Zapp , Amiri stated that she had been arrested and interrogated several times in Iran. In addition, her passport was also taken away.

In addition to German , Amiri speaks English , French , Persian and Arabic . She has a son and lives in Munich and Cologne. Your life partner is Robert Hunke .

Awards

With committed interviews and reports, including the 30-minute ARD report The Terror Front in Syria , Amiri became known to a wider public. For her television program Death before Lampedusa - Europe's Fall of Man , which was broadcast on ARD on October 6, 2014, she and Ellen Trapp were awarded the 2015 Catholic Media Prize in the "Electronic Media" category. In 2018 she won the Kindernothilfe Media Prize for her contribution "Disappeared in Germany - In search of missing refugee boys". For reporting from Iran, Amiri was nominated for the German TV Prize 2019 in the category "Best Information: Foreign Reporter ".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "I'm going to pack my bags, I have to go there!" Magazin.zenith.de , May 23, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2020
2. ↑ Natalie Amiri: independent of #Corona. That's why I'm giving up the office in #Tehran on May 1st .... I will continue to observe the country, but in the future I will move across the entire region ... I'm really looking forward to that ... خوش و شاد باشید . In: Twitter. April 30, 2020, accessed May 1, 2020 . 
3. ↑ https://www.br.de/br-fernsehen/sendung/euroblick/Moderation-ada-102.html
4. ↑ Iran: No step without a filming permit . ndr.de , February 16, 2015, accessed January 4, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Vita - Natalie Amiri . Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , November 2, 2012, accessed on January 4, 2018.
6. ^ "Weltspiegel" from Munich in the first - New moderator: Natalie Amiri . Bayerischer Rundfunk , February 27, 2014, accessed on January 4, 2018.
7. ↑ https://www.amnesty.de/presse/2015/9/10/9-marler-medienpreis-menschenrechte
8. ↑ The story in First: Disappeared in Germany - In search of missing refugee boys (SWR / BR) . ( grimme-preis.de [accessed on May 10, 2018]).
9. ^ ^{A b} Natalie Amiri: "Warning from the Foreign Office". In: Zapp . May 3, 2020, accessed May 3, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Katharina Willinger : On my own behalf: As of today I will take over the management of our ARD office in Tehran from my valued colleague @NatalieAmiri. I continue to report from Turkey, but now also regularly from neighboring Iran. I look forward to exciting times and good stories! In: Twitter. May 1, 2020, accessed May 3, 2020 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Podcast: "Natalie often didn't tell me what danger she was in". In: Borussia Dortmund. Retrieved May 7, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Summer guests 2018 - Natalie Amiri radiobremen.de, accessed on June 14, 2019  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
13. ↑ The moderator team of the world mirror . daserste.de , accessed on September 11, 2016.
14. ↑ Natalie Amiri, Ellen Trapp and Nataly Bleuel receive the Catholic Media Prize 2015 . Press release of the German Bishops' Conference , July 21, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2018.
15. ↑ Kindernothilfe Media Prize awarded for the 20th time kindernothilfe.de, accessed on June 14, 2019
16. ↑ German Television Award 2019: Nominations for documentaries, information, sport and comedy have been confirmed meedia.de, accessed on June 14, 2019