Thorsten Schröder

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Thorsten Schröder

Thorsten Schröder (born December 30, 1967 in Reinbek ) is a German journalist , speaker, moderator and book author .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1987, he studied economics at the University of Hamburg , where he graduated in 1993. From 1991, Thorsten Schröder freelancer at was broadcasting the NDR . At the same time he was an editor at Glinder Zeitung .

He then went to the Bavarian radio broadcaster Radio FFB in Fürstenfeldbruck . There Thorsten Schröder also worked as a moderator and wrote and presented the news. After moving back to Hamburg in 1994, he completed a traineeship at NDR .

Thorsten Schröder later worked as an editor and reporter for the newsroom of NDR 90.3 . Since 1999 he has been the spokesman for the Tagesschau in Erste . On November 21, 1999, he was heard for the first time as an off-speaker at 8 p.m., followed by his first appearance in the main edition in front of the camera on September 20, 2007. He also worked for the radio station NDR Info from 2005 to 2007 . Since summer 2007 he has been the substitute moderator for the night magazine in the first.

He also works for NDR television. He moderates NDR-Info and NDR-Info-Extra, the north German counterpart to the ARD focal point. He has also moderated the ARD focal point. In these programs he works as a presenter and writes his own texts and conducts interviews. He was also a moderator and news editor for the Hamburg Journal .

Thorsten Schröder also works as a speaker. He spoke in numerous radio and television productions as well as in audio books; including This story by Alessandro Baricco , published in 2008 by JUMBO Verlag .

In January 2020 he acted as a "dancing talk show host" in the music video for Limbo , the title track of an album by the band MiA. With.

Sports and travel book author

The amateur triathlete and amateur cyclist Schröder used to report live on cycling events for NDR radio. Schröder himself took part in numerous triathlons and bike races. In 2012 he completed his first long distance triathlon, the Ironman . He wrote the book News from Ironman about the Ironman and his preparation for it, which was published by Spomedis in October 2013. In 2010, Gütersloher Verlag published his book Contrast Program , in which he reports on his bicycle trips around the world.

In 2013 and 2014, Schröder also completed a long-distance triathlon and tried to qualify for the World Championships in Hawaii when he took part in the Ironman in Frankfurt for the fourth time in July 2017. That failed, but just five weeks later he tried again: In August 2017, Schröder took part in the Ironman Hamburg (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running), where he took sixth place in his age group and This secured a starting place for the World Championships, the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championships) on October 14, 2017. He also finished the Ironman in Hawaii successfully after 10:56 hours, in his age group M50-54 Schröder took 68th place and overall he was 989th place out of 2364 participants. In 2019, emf-Verlag published his book With Each Fiber , in which he describes his path to becoming the Ironman in Hawaii.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tagesschau from November 21, 1999 - First broadcast with Thorsten Schröder off-screen. Accessed November 20, 2019 (German).
  2. Billion - Limbo Music Video on YouTube , accessed February 19, 2020
  3. Tagesschau spokesman and triathlete: Thorsten Schröder. In: swr.de. May 10, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
  4. Nina Holley: Thorsten Schröder - Out of the prosperity bubble. In: Abendblatt.de. July 8, 2010, accessed September 14, 2017 .
  5. Thorsten Schröder: With every fiber . 2nd Edition. elf-Verlag, Munich.
  6. Hendrik Maaßen: The Ironman Experiment. In: youtube.com. NDR, August 28, 2017, accessed on August 29, 2017 .
  7. "Thorsten, you are an Ironman!" In: tagesschau.de. October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2017 .