Vera Cordes

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Vera Cordes (born February 26, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and television presenter .

Life

Vera Cordes studied German , sports and educational sciences in Hamburg after completing her Abitur at Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Geesthacht and then graduated from the Axel Springer journalism school in Hamburg and Berlin. During her studies, she worked as a freelance print journalist for local daily newspapers such as the Geesthacht newspaper . In 1986 she started her career as a reporter for reports from the days and Hamburg Journal , NDR . From 1988 to 1990 she worked as a news editor and presenter for the private broadcasters Hundert, 6 in Berlin and radio ffn in Hanover. Back in Hamburg, Cordes worked for eight years as head of news and presenter at RTL Nord as well as editor-in-chief of the Hamburg editorial team. From 1999 to 2002 she moderated the evening magazine DAS! , presented the N3 news and was also used as a reporter at NDR. Since 1998, Vera Cordes moderated the health magazine rounds   of NDR television and received for her work as a medical journalist and presenter numerous awards.

Cordes is an ambassador at Bethel, is involved a. a. for the ASB project "Hamburg Schockt" and the "Aktion gute Schule". Since 2018 she has been the patron of the "Aktion Augen auf!" the Hamburger Arbeiterwohlfahrt and member of the jury for the Hamburg Science Award of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg . At the end of June 2018, the medical journalist was elected to the board of the German Heart Foundation .

Vera Cordes is married to a marine biologist and has two children.

Awards

  • 2000 media prize for journalism on medical topics in children and adolescents
  • 2003 Osteoporosis Media Prize from the Federal Self-Help Association for Osteoporosis e. V.
  • 2004 Award from the German Heart Foundation e. V. for expert and layman-understandable reporting on cardiovascular diseases
  • 2006 Media Prize of the German Ophthalmologists for exemplary, understandable information about eye diseases
  • 2008 Media Prize of the German Gastro League
  • 2009 Prize for medical journalism from the German High Pressure League e. V. DHL - German Hypertension Society
  • 2014 Prize for Science Journalism from the German Society for Cardiology (DGK)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b NDR presenter: flying visit to the "Visite" maker , Bergedorfer Zeitung , January 12, 2013
  2. a b Vera Cordes at ndr.de
  3. Awards for the Visite ndr.de program on October 28, 2011
  4. Ambassador Vera Cordes at Bethel ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bethel.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bethel.de
  5. ^ Ambassador for the ASB project "Hamburg shocked" , ASB dated December 2, 2013
  6. Statement by Vera Cordes at Aktion gute Schule e. V. guteschule.eu
  7. New patron for the "Aktion Augen auf!" AWO Landesverband Hamburg from January 24, 2018
  8. Board members of the German Heart Foundation www.herzstiftung.de
  9. Award of the Heart Foundation for Vera Cordes presseportal.de April 22, 2004
  10. ^ List of award winners since 1985 hochdruckliga.de
  11. DGK Prize for Science Journalism for Vera Cordes dgk.org April 24, 2014