Sabine Christiansen

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Sabine Christiansen as a guest on the NDR Talk Show (2012)

Sabine Christiansen (* 20th September 1957 in Preetz as Sabine Frahm ) is a German television presenter , journalist and producer.

Life

Sabine Christiansen grew up in Schellhorn near Preetz in Schleswig-Holstein . After graduating from the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Preetz and doing language training, she worked as a flight attendant at Lufthansa from 1976 to 1982 . She did her journalistic training from 1983 to 1985 at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg .

On June 30, 2008, she married the textile manufacturer Norbert Médus in Paris . It is the second marriage for Médus, father of two children, and the third for Christiansen.

job

In 1985 she worked as a freelancer for radio and television (news, television documentaries, television discussion programs). From 1985 to 1987 she worked as an editor and presenter at the Landesfunkhaus Hamburg, in the editorial offices for state politics / economics, news and television documentation. From 1987 to 1997 she was an editor at ARD - aktuell and moderator of the Tagesthemen .

From January 4, 1998 to June 24, 2007, Sabine Christiansen hosted the talk show Sabine Christiansen , named after her, on ARD , which developed into the most famous political debate on German television at the time. A total of 447 episodes were produced in Berlin. For 10 years, Christiansen interviewed domestic and international government leaders, business leaders and opinion leaders. On June 23, 2006, Sabine Christiansen announced that she would end the talk show in summer 2007. She wants to relocate the center of her life abroad and concentrate more on international talk show formats. The successor on the broadcast slot on Sunday evening was Anne Will on September 16, 2007 with her program Anne Will .

Since 2002 Christiansen has been managing partner of TV 21 GmbH, which also produced its ARD talk show. The production company, which she heads to this day, focuses on national and international economic and political formats, documentaries, reports, corporate TV and IPTV.

In 2002 Christiansen and Maybrit Illner presented the second part of the first chancellor duel between Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his challenger Edmund Stoiber on two channels ( Das Erste and ZDF ). In 2005, the two presenters, together with Peter Kloeppel and Thomas Kausch, presented the television duel between Gerhard Schröder and the future Chancellor Angela Merkel on five channels (Das Erste, ZDF, RTL , Sat.1 and Phoenix ) for the second time . In 2004 she received a guest appearance in the Tatort An honest skin . In May 2006 she conducted the first interview with US President George W. Bush on German television.

2006–2008 she hosted and produced the international talk show Global Players , which was broadcast worldwide on CNBC . This program, which is being produced at various locations with guests from international politics and business, was presented by Christiansen for the first time on February 5, 2006.

In 2009 she moderated and produced the Sat.1 broadcast your choice. The SAT.1 arena . Stefan Aust was co-moderator . From 2009 to 2010 moderated and it also produced the n-tv telecast Agenda 09 (10) - values and markets . In 2011 she moderated and produced the program Chefsache - Manager, Marken, Markt for n-tv . In 2011 she advertised the Bild newspaper on posters .

From 2012 to May 31, 2016 she was a member of the advisory board of Arqueonautas Fashion and in 2013 a member of the board of directors of Windreich AG . She is a member of the supervisory board of Hermes Europe . She has also been a member of the freenet AG Supervisory Board since the end of February 2015 . In 2013 she was involved in an advertising campaign for the Randstad temporary employment agency . She was presented there as an economically competent TV journalist. The advertisement appeared online and in print media, and it was broadcast on the radio.

Awards

Women's World Award for Sabine Christiansen

criticism

Above all, numerous commentators criticize the way she conducts discussions and conversations: instead of following up, critically commenting on expressions of opinion and comparing opposing positions, she merely acts as a key word. This gives politicians in particular the opportunity to use practiced PR phrases and to hide behind rhetorical platitudes and excessive, mutual accusations. In his opinion , Spiegel author Matthias Matussek Christiansens criticized the uncritical moderation of an interview with Oskar Lafontaine in 2000 and described her in this context as "Germany's most talented journalist actress".

When Christiansen announced that she wanted to end her program, Reinhard Mohr from Spiegel Online described this “media sensation” with the words: “If unsolicited advice were allowed: Sabine Christiansen should stop right away, here and now. It would be a blessing for everyone involved. "

In contrast to Mohr, the jury of the German Association of Trade Journalists recognized her “impressive journalistic achievements” and her ability to process complex political and economic content in such a way that it would be received with interest by a broad audience. The media director about the discontinuation of her ARD program ran largely diametrically opposed to this view.

In 2008 Christiansen came under fire because she had signed a PR contract with the car manufacturer Daimler AG without informing ARD about this contract. In their program Mein 2008 , which was broadcast on January 11, 2008, several celebrities appeared alongside Daimler boss Dieter Zetsche who also attend PR appointments for Daimler and Mercedes-Benz. Christiansen defended himself by stating that the contract only "came into effect" after the program had been broadcast.

For the criticism of the show Sabine Christiansen see there.

engagement

  • German UNICEF ambassador since 1997
  • Founder and chairwoman of the Sabine Christiansen Children's Foundation
  • Board member of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Germany
  • Ambassador of the José Carreras Leukemia Foundation
  • Member of the Board of Trustees for the International Journalist Program (IJP)
  • Deputy Chairwoman of the Hertha BSC Foundation
  • Member of the board of trustees of the Otto Hahn Peace Medal
  • Jury member for " Innovation Competition Top 100 " - The most innovative medium-sized companies
  • 1999–2007 Initiative D21
  • 2001–2013 board member of the Alliance for Children Foundation - Against Violence
  • 2004–2010 Board of Governors of the University of Haifa
  • 2005–2007 member of the University Council of Rostock University
  • 2011–2013 Member of the Innovation Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

literature

  • Sabine Christiansen: Sympathy versus competence: the duel that polarized . In: Axel Balzer, Marvin Geilich, Shamin Rafat (eds.): Politics as a brand: Political mediation between communication and staging (= public affairs and political management 3). Lit, Münster, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8146-7 , pp. 261-266. ( online )
  • Walter van Rossum : My Sundays with “Sabine Christiansen” - How the palaver rules us . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne, 2004, ISBN 3-462-03394-8 .
  • Knut Bergmann: Transparency instead of a “four-eyes society” . In: Impulse . November 2004. (online)
  • UNICEF, Sabine Christiansen, Janosch (Ed.): Is there a heat-free in Africa? This is how the children of this world live . Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-12089-2 .
  • Adi Grewenig: Political Talk Shows. On the functionality of a media staging concept . In: Siegfried Jäger, Jobst Paul (ed.): This right is still part of our world: Aspects of a new conservative revolution . Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research, Duisburg 2001, ISBN 3-927388-78-5 .

Web links

Commons : Sabine Christiansen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Sabine Christiansen  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Questionnaire: Sabine Christiansen . Focus 36 (2002), September 2, 2002, accessed February 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ G. Brandenburg, N. Harbusch, C. Lepthien, H. Lohse: Wedding with jeans millionaire in Paris: Sabine Christiansen said “Oui!” Bild.de , June 30, 2008, accessed on February 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Theo Baltz separates from Sabine Christiansen . Welt.de , September 17, 2001, accessed February 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Official website for the CNBC show Globalplayers with Sabine Christiansen
  5. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , March 10, 2013, page 29.
    Sabine Christiansen becomes a member of the Supervisory Board at Windreich . dpa article in the Handelsblatt , January 18, 2013, accessed on September 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ Birger Nicolai: Sabine Christiansen drives out parcels for Hermes. Die Welt , April 23, 2013, accessed February 25, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Sabine Christiansen is a new member of the Supervisory Board. freenet AG , February 25, 2015, accessed on February 9, 2016 (press release).
  8. ↑ Reinhard Mohr: Sabine Christiansen: Queen Blabla abdicates . Spiegel Online , June 23, 2006, accessed February 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ See e.g. B. Sabine Christiansen - How an apolitical policy made . faz.net , February 15, 2007, accessed on February 9, 2016.
    Thomas Ludwig: Last broadcast “Sabine Christiansen”: Arm wrestling in front of millions . Wirtschaftswoche , June 26, 2007, accessed on February 9, 2016.
    Reinhard Mohr: Christiansen-Finale: Abyss is always . Spiegel Online , June 26, 2007, accessed on February 9, 2016.
    Hans-Jürgen Jakobs: ARD: Talk Farewell with President “Ach, die Frau Christiansen!” Sueddeutsche.de , June 25, 2007, accessed on February 9, 2016.
  10. ↑ Henrik Schmitz: Christiansen and the PR for Daimler AG ( Memento from March 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , March 7, 2008, accessed on February 9, 2016.
  11. ↑ Steffen Grimberg: Sabine Christiansen and Daimler-Benz: Yes, we are a couple! taz , March 9, 2008, accessed February 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Christiansen, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frahm, Sabine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter, journalist and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Preetz