Jana Pareigis
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 2018-03-21 ZDF Berlin Studio Mittagsmagazin-6440.jpg Pareigis in 2018 | |
| Born | 23 June 1981 Hamburg, Germany |
| 🏳️ Nationality | German |
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Jana Pareigis (born 23 June 1981 in Hamburg) is a German journalist and television moderator. She is the first black woman in German news journalism.[1][2]
Life and career[edit]
Pareigis has a polyethnic migration background with relatives in Germany, Sweden and Zimbabwe. She grew up with adoptive parents; her father is from Zimbabwe, and her mother was German.[2]
She studied political science and African studies in her hometown of Hamburg as well as in New York City and Berlin.[3] From 2010 she was a TV presenter for the news program Journal at DW-TV as well as a freelance editor, inter alia for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Zeit Online and Deutsche Welle.
Pareigis began her television career as assistant to the editor-in-chief at N24 in Berlin. Before that, she had already gained professional experience in the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, the Reuters news agency and various foundations and newspaper publishers.[4] From December 2014 she moderated ZDF-Morgenmagazin.[5] In 2016 she featured in the DW documentary Afro.Deutschland, which deals with racism against black people in Germany.[6] Since April 2018 she has been the main presenter of ZDF-Mittagsmagazin. On 24 February 2021 she presented the 12 o'clock heute news on Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) for the first time. Since July 27, 2021, she has been presenting the heute-Nachrichten on ZDF at 7 p.m. as Petra Gerster's successor.[7]
Pareigis wrote a foreword in 2019 for the new German translation of James Baldwin's volume of essays Nach der Flut das Feuer (The Fire Next Time).[8] In it she emphasizes Baldwin's importance for understanding the present and reports on her own experiences with racism.[8]
Personal life[edit]
Jana Pareigis is the mother of a son and lives in Berlin and Mainz.[7]
External links[edit]
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- Jana Pareigis on IMDb
- Profile at the ZDF Presseportal
References[edit]
- ↑ "Jana Pareigis: Ihre Hautfarbe würde sie für nichts in der Welt tauschen - WELT". DIE WELT (in Deutsch). 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "ZDF-Moderatorin Jana Pareigis: "Rassismus ist überall – auch mein Sohn wird das erleben müssen"". BUNTE.de (in Deutsch). 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ↑ "Jana Pareigis, Moderatorin und Journalistin | DW | 04.10.2013". DW.COM (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ (PDF). 2016-02-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20160205153434/http://nachhaltigeentwicklung.developmentpolicyforum.de/site/downloads/NachhaltigeEntwicklung_Lebenslaeufe.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2021-03-25. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "ZDF-Morgenmagazin - ZDFmediathek". 2017-03-26. Archived from the original on 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ Ich bin Deutsche, was denn sonst? | DW | 10.03.2017 (in Deutsch), retrieved 2021-03-25
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Weber, Martin (2021-07-27). "Neue Moderatorin: Jana Pareigis bei ZDF-„heute" gestartet". www.morgenpost.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sareika, Rüdiger (2021-06-15). "Baldwin, J. (2019). Nach der Flut das Feuer". ZEP – Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik. 2021 (1): 45–45. doi:10.31244/zep.2021.01.10. ISSN 1434-4688.
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