Anne Gellinek (born 1962) is a German journalist and TV host who has been one of the anchors of ''

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'', a

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broadcast on German public-service broadcaster

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, since 2022. Gellinek previously worked as the Brussels Bureau Chief of ZDF and was ranked as number 6 among influential women in Brussels by European affairs weekly newspaper ''

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'' in 2018.

Early life and education

Gellinek was born in 1962 in

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, Germany. Starting university in 1981, Gellinek studied Slavic Studies, Eastern European History and Journalism in Münster and Moscow.

Career

While in Moscow, Gellinek worked as a freelance journalist for the Moscow offices of the

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and

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. From 1991 to 1992 she interned at

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and from 1992 to 1995 she worked for ZDF in Düsseldorf. In 1994 Gellinek also received a three-month grant from the Arthur F. Burns Fellowships for Young Journalists in

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, US. Since the, Gellinek has continued to work for German broadcaster ZDF, as a journalist and TV-host, in Berlin and Moscow. In August 2014, Gellinek started as a correspondent at the ZDF studio

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

and in 2015 she was promoted to Brussels bureau chief of ZDF. In 2018 ''

'', named Gellinek as one of the most influential women shaping Brussels politics.

References

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