Steffen Seibert

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Steffen Seibert at re: publica (2012)

Steffen Rüdiger Seibert (born June 7, 1960 in Munich ) is a German State Secretary and former journalist . Since August 2010 he has been government spokesman for the German federal government and head of the federal government's press and information office . Before working for the federal government, Seibert was a television journalist at ZDF .

Life

origin

Steffen Seibert's father was a publisher. When Seibert was twelve years old, his parents divorced. His mother moved with him from Munich, first to Stuttgart and later to Hanover .

education

Seibert attended the Tellkampf School in Hanover and graduated from high school there. One of his high school classmates was Giovanni di Lorenzo . From 1981 to 1987 he studied history , literature and public law at the University of Hamburg and at the London School of Economics . In 1987 he obtained the academic degree Magister Artium at the University of Hamburg . Seibert was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation .

Career

Public legal radio

In 1989 Seibert began a traineeship at ZDF. After working in various editorial offices, including the heute-journal , he reported for ZDF from 1992 to 1995 as a foreign correspondent from Washington, DC. Back in Germany, he first moderated the ZDF morning magazine , followed by the ZDF evening magazine , hallo Deutschland (1997–2000) and ZDF.reporter (2001–2003). Seibert was also used for special programs. Up to the state elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony in January 2008, he was also active as a man of numbers for ZDF election reporting for nine years . He was awarded the Golden Camera for his moderation of the special programs on ZDF about the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 .

From January 13, 2003 to July 4, 2010, Seibert moderated the main program of heute -Nachrichten at 7:00 p.m. on ZDF as the successor to Klaus-Peter Siegloch . For the special program We want to help! , in which the ZDF and the Bild-Zeitung collected 40.6 million euros in donations for the victims of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia , he won the audience Bambi in 2005 together with co-host Johannes B. Kerner . In the same year he presented the Bavarian TV Prize together with Nina Ruge . From May 28, 2007 to July 3, 2010, Seibert was also the successor to Klaus-Peter Siegloch Anchorman of the heute-journal . His co-presenter was Dunja Hayali , with whom he also presented the ZDF series Die Sternstunden der Deutschen from November 10, 2009 . In 2009 he hosted the Bavarian TV Prize again with Markus Kavka .

Government spokesman

Steffen Seibert (2010)

"A tip from Zeit editor-in-chief Giovanni di Lorenzo made the chancellor's advisors aware of Seibert." Since August 11, 2010, Seibert has been the longest-serving government spokesman for the German government. He took over from Ulrich Wilhelm , who was the director of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). In his role , Seibert has been tweeting under the official RegSsprecher profile since February 28, 2011 .

Other engagement

Seibert is involved as a UNICEF representative; In 2003 he traveled to Angola , in March 2005 he visited the Ukrainian cities of Odessa and Kiev as part of an AIDS awareness campaign . Seibert, himself the father of a premature child , was the patron of the Bundesverband Das Frühgeborene Kind e. V. Since January 2010 he has been the official sponsor of the Bethel Children's Hospice .

Private

Seibert lives with his wife (a painter ) and three children (a daughter and two sons) in Berlin . He was baptized Protestant , left the church early and converted to the Roman Catholic denomination in 2007 .

Works

  • To broadcast! How television is made. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-499-21334-6 .
  • My, your, our Germany: The most moving moments of the last 60 years. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-411-07811-0 .

Web links

Commons : Steffen Seibert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ZDF man follows Wilhelm - Steffen Seibert becomes Merkel's new spokesman. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 10, 2010, accessed August 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Information on the Federal Government's website: Vita of Steffen Seibert , accessed on August 11, 2010.
  3. ↑ Two from the compartment. Giovanni di Lorenzo and Steffen Seibert in a double interview. Glücksreport, July / August 2008 edition, page 70/71 , accessed on October 22, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Christoph Elflein: Steffen Seibert: Merkel's man for marketing. In: Focus Online . August 10, 2010, p. 2 , accessed August 19, 2016 .
  5. ^ Marion Püning, Jörg Staude: Zwei vom Fach. Giovanni di Lorenzo and Steffen Seibert in a double interview. (PDF; 532 kB) In: Galore from July / August 2008, pp. 64–71.
  6. ^ Vita Steffen Seibert. Federal Government, accessed on June 23, 2018 .
  7. ^ Government spokesman Seibert The Voice of the Chancellor Deutschlandfunk October 24, 2019
  8. ↑ Spiegel.de: Steffen Seibert: ZDF presenter becomes Merkel's new spokesman , accessed on July 10, 2010.
  9. ↑ Reg Speakers at twitter.com
  10. ↑ fruehgeborene.de: Achim Winter takes over.
  11. ↑ kinderhospiz-bethel.de: Steffen Seibert: Making the painful more bearable. , accessed July 13, 2010.
  12. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Retrieved on August 4, 2010 by someone who changed pages
  13. ↑ kath.net of November 14, 2007
  14. ↑ Christoph Elflein: Steffen Seibert: Merkel's man for marketing. In: Focus Online . August 10, 2010, p. 1 , accessed August 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Seibert, Steffen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seibert, Steffen Rüdiger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and government spokesman
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich