Ralph Szepanski

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Ralph Szepanski (born October 5, 1967 in Kirchen (Sieg) ) is a German journalist and television presenter .

Life

After studying German , linguistics and psychology , Szepanski began a traineeship at the German television news agency in what was then the capital city of Bonn in 1992 . He also took on reporting for ProSieben , RTL , Sat.1 and Tele 5 .

From 1993 to 1994 Ralph Szepanski was n-tv correspondent for Northern Germany and Scandinavia. In the meantime he was involved in building up the regional television station Hamburg1 . From 1995 to 1999 Szepanski was editor-in-chief and moderator of Hamburg1-Nachrichten.

In 1999 he came to the ZDF studio in Hamburg. In 2001 he started working as the deputy editor-in-chief of the weekday ZDF magazine hallo deutschland . As a presenter he presented the Drehscheibe Deutschland from 2002 to 2003 , since 2002 today - in Germany and also some ZDF special programs.

Since November 2003 Ralph Szepanski has been moderating both the heute - in Germany also the afternoon editions of the heute news . To this end, he has been the final editor of the 7 pm today main edition since January 2006 , in which he was also appointed as a substitute moderator from 2009 to 2011. In January 2008, he also began his moderation work for the event and documentation channel Phoenix .

Since May 14, 2011, Szepanski has acted as the main presenter of the ZDFwochen-journal , alternating with Christina von Ungern-Sternberg . The broadcast was discontinued in December 2012. In addition, at the end of May 2011 he was appointed as a representative in the ZDF midday magazine . Since January 2, 2012, Szepanski has also been a regular main presenter of heute - in Germany together with Yve Fehring .

Szepanski was given new tasks in 2014. Since May 2014, he has been presenting the news programs tonight and ( alternatively ) today + alternating with other moderators. Since then it has only been used sporadically in the afternoon editions of heute news, but can still be seen as the main moderator of today in Germany .