Petra Gerster

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Petra Gerster, 2016

Petra Gerster (born January 25, 1955 in Worms ) is a German journalist and television presenter .

biography

Gerster is the daughter of a doctor. During her school days at the humanistic Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium in Worms, she was politically active: She fought for more participation in her school and got students to participate in grading conferences. After graduation in 1973, she studied among others as a fellow of the studienstiftung Literature , German and Slavic Studies at the University of Konstanz , and in the USA and in Paris . Then she completed a traineeship at the Kölner Stadtanzeiger . She actually wanted to be a teacher.

After her first professional experience in television at WDR and BR , Petra Gerster took over the moderation of the ML Mona Lisa magazine on ZDF in 1989 . She performed this task for ten years and received, among other things, the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Prize in 1996 .

Since August 1998 she can be seen as the main presenter in the studio in the main edition of heute news at 7 p.m. In January 2020, Gerster announced that he would be leaving ZDF.

For her life's work, Petra Gerster will receive the Hedwig Dohm certificate from the Association of Women Journalists in 2020, which honors her more than 30 years of work for ZDF at the women's magazine ML Mona Lisa and as a presenter of primetime. "She made women linguistically visible earlier than others, changed her moderation in a clever and elegant way," says the reasoning. She is brave and persistent and therefore a role model for women in the media.

family

Gerster is the sister of the politician and former President of the Federal Employment Agency , Florian Gerster , and a second-degree niece of the CDU politician Johannes Gerster . She is married to the publicist Christian Nürnberger , whom she met through a marriage advertisement he placed at the time . They have two children - a son and a daughter.

Awards

2020: Hedwig Dohm certificate from the Association of Women Journalists

Published books

  • with Christian Nürnberger: The educational emergency. How we save the future of our children. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87134-433-8 .
  • with Christian Nürnberger: Strong for life. Ways out of the educational emergency. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87134-464-8 .
  • Matriculation examination. The woman of 50 years. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-533-3 .
  • with Andrea Stoll: ahead of your time. Women change the world. cbj Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-13403-0 .
  • with Christian Nürnberger: character. What is really important in education . Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-679-8 .
  • It is growing together ... We Germans and unity. Lingen Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-938323-61-8 .
  • with Christian Nürnberger: The opinion machine. How information is made - and who we can still believe. Ludwig Buchverlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-28047-2 .

Web links

Commons : Petra Gerster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. bet, six! - School stories from Germany (2/3). Missed Opportunities . Documentary by Christina Brecht-Benze on behalf of SWR. German premiere on December 15, 2005
  2. ↑ Moritz Bletzinger: ZDF: “Today” presenter will soon no longer be on the air - “Employment ended”. In: Münchner Merkur . January 30, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Courageous and persistent - the winners of the jb Media Awards 2020. In: Journalistinnenbund. June 30, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 .
  4. ^ Christian Nürnberger-Gerster: My first lady - love by advertisement and the consequences. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Gerster, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist, presenter and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms