Annette Gerlach in 2009. Annette Gerlach (born 16 October 1964 in Berlin), is a German TV host and journalist of the Franco-German television channel

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. She presents the programs in German as well as in French.

Life

Born in Berlin, Gerlach has been living and working in France since her studies. After studying economics, she began her journalistic career as editor of the weekly magazine ''

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'' in Paris. In 1992, she joined the Arte television channel in Strasbourg, from its inception. Since 1998, she presents the daily newspapers (''Arte Info'' renamed ''Arte Journal'' in 2010). From 2004 to 2010, in parallel, she co-directed and presented Arte Culture, the cultural magazine of Arte with

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. In addition, Gerlach covers prestigious cultural events all over the world, often broadcast live by Arte, such as the reopening of the opera house in Barcelona (

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), Venise (

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) or the

Festival d'Avignon The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vila ...

. In 2012, she covered the

Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amad ...

, the

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and the

Bayreuth festival The Bayreuth Festival (german: link=no, Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived ...

. She also gained notoriety through the annual presentation of the

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Distinctions

*2008 – Gerlach was made a Chevalier in the

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by the French Ministry of Culture. *2006 – She received the

Prix Richelieu The Prix Richelieu is a French literary award that rewards a journalist who "testified by the quality of his own language, his concern to defend the French language". It is awarded annually, under the sponsorship of the association and the Éditio ...

for the . *Annette Gerlach has a notice in the French version of

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Private life

Gerlach lives in Strasbourg, and has a daughter. She shared the life of American conductor

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References

External links

Annette Gerlach's webwite

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