Shakuntala Banerjee

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Shakuntala Banerjee ( Bengali শকুন্তলা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় Śakuntalā Bandyōpādhyāẏ ; * 1973 in Rheydt ) is a German television journalist and reporter .

Life

She grew up as the daughter of a German and an Indian in Rheydt and graduated from the Episcopal Marienschule Mönchengladbach .

Banerjee studied philosophy , German , Indology , later political science and public law . During her studies she gained her first journalistic experience as a student assistant in the capital studios of WDR and RTL .

After her studies, Shakuntala Banerjee helped to set up the Volk Verlag in Munich and supervised the publication of the lexicon of economic works at the University of Erfurt at the chair of Dietmar Herz . In 2003 Banerjee started working as a freelancer for ZDF , from 2005 she worked as a reporter for the Mainz ZDF editorial team for the magazine Drehscheibe Deutschland and reported for blickpunkt . From 2008 to 2011 Shakuntala Banerjee worked as a speaker for the ZDF editors-in-chief Nikolaus Brender and Peter Frey . From the end of 2011 Banerjee reported as a reporter from the ZDF Landesstudio Hessen , from 2015 she was a correspondent in Brussels . Since March 2019 she has been the deputy head of the Berlin Capital Studio and alternates with Theo Koll to present the Berlin direct program .

Award

In 2015, Banerjee received the media prize from the Heinrich Mörtl Foundation for the promotion of training and further education for police officers in the state of Hesse for the report on the drug metropolis Frankfurt - The long way against addiction .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review on the political science portal . Retrieved June 8, 2020
  2. a b Biography of Banerjee in the press portal of ZDF, accessed on June 8, 2020
  3. journalistenpreise.de , accessed on June 8, 2020