Anna Katharina Kraft (b. 3 October, 1985) is a German
television presenter
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and former
athlete
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Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...
.
Early life and education
Anna Kraft was born in
Haan in the
North Rhine-Westphalia and grew up in the town of
Leverkusen where she graduated at the
Landrat-Lucas-Gymnasium with her
Abitur
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. During her youth, she was from 2000 to 2008 an athlete at the
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
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. During that time, she was with the multiple German sprint relay champion. By 2005, she studied
sports science at the
German Sport University Cologne with a degree in media and communication. In 2010, Kraft completed her studies in
Cologne and graduated with a sports science diploma.
Television career
Because many injuries prevented on continuing her career in athletics, Kraft already oriented herself during her studies with various internships and collaboration. among others in the sports editorial department of the radio station
WDR 2, working in the sports journalism direction and as a television presenter.
In 2010, Kraft became part of the redaction of the football program ''ran'' on
Sat.1
Sat.1 is a German free-to-air television channel that is a part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group.
It is considered the first privately owned television network in Germany, having been launched in January 1984 as ''PKS'' ''(Programmgesellschaf ...
, from where she then moved to
Sky Deutschland in December 2011. There, Kraft worked as the youngest presenter on the channel
Sky Sport News HD. On 3 July 2013, Kraft was announced at a press conference from
Sport1 Sport1 may refer to the following TV channels:
* Sport1 (Eastern Europe)
* Sport1 (Germany)
* Sport1 (Lithuania)
* Sport1 (Netherlands), now Ziggo Sport Totaal
* Sport 1 (Russian TV channel)
Match! Arena ( rus, Матч! Арена), formerly ...
as the new presenter of the daily football program ''Bundesliga aktuell''. On 19 August 2013, she presented for the last time the program on Sky Sport News HD, then joined the channel Sport1 from September 2013 to June 2015.
In summer 2015, Kraft joined the channel
ZDF, where she presents the ZDF sports reportage as well as major sport events there and regularly at the
UEFA Champions League and the
Bundesliga.
In June 2017, she appeared in the German crime series ''
Die Rosenheim-Cops'' in the episode "Ausgeritten" broadcast on ZDF.
Personal life
Anna Kraft lives in
München
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. She is in a relationship with football commentator
Wolff-Christoph Fuss, who works mainly with
Sky Deutschland.
Her father Heinz-Jürgen played in the late 1950s for
Fortuna Düsseldorf and later worked as a coach for
VfL Leverkusen
VfL Leverkusen was a German association football club from the central district of Küppersteg in the city of Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
History
The club was the product of the 25 July 1950 union of ''Turn- und Sport 1904 Manfort ...
and