Caren Miosga (born 11 April 1969 in

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) is a German journalist and television presenter.

Early life and education

Caren Miosga grew up in Groß Ilsede,

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

, and attended the local grammar school. She studied history and Slavic studies in Hamburg. Miosga is fluent in Russian as she worked as a tour guide in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and Moscow during her studies.

Career

After completing her studies, Miosga worked for several radio stations – Radio Schleswig-Holstein (R.SH),

Radio Hamburg Radio Hamburg is a private commercial radio station based on Hamburg, Germany. Established in the 1980s to play popular music of the time, nowadays it plays hits from the 2000s onwards, on high rotation. Their slogan is ''Mehr Musik, mehr Vielfal ...

and

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– and the television channel

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North. In 1999, she went to

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and presented there the ''Kulturjournal''. From May 2006, she hosted ''ttt Titel, Thesen, Temperamente'', the ARD culture magazine. The following year Miosga succeeded

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and became the new presenter of ''

Tagesthemen ''Tagesthemen'' is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Ingo Zamperoni. Second only to the 20:00 ''Tagesschau'' ("Review of the Day") ''Tagesthemen'' ("Issues of the Day") is ARD's most ...

'', appearing in rotation with successive co-presenters

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(2006–2013), Thomas Roth (2013–2016), and

Ingo Zamperoni Ingo Antonio Zamperoni (born May 3, 1974, in Wiesbaden, West Germany) is a German news presenter and journalist. Between 2012 and 2014, he was the presenter of the ''Tagesthemen'' news magazine on the Das Erste channel, a role he continued in Oct ...

(2013–2014 and since 2016). During her time at ''Tagesthemen'', Miosga interviewed Prime Minister

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of France on the occasion of his first official visit to Germany in 2014. In 2018, she and '' Deutsche Welle'' correspondent

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jointly conducted a French-language TV interview with President Emmanuel Macron, his first with a German television channel. In 2017, Miosga – representing the ''Tagesthemen'' editorial staff – was awarded a

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in the category "Best Information". In a 2018 survey conducted by

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, she was voted one of Germany's most trusted news presenters.

Personal life

Miosga is married to pathologist Tobias Grob and has two children.Hamburger Abendblatt
Caren Miosga hat ihr zweites Kind (German)
' The family of her father originates from

Upper Silesia Upper Silesia ( pl, Górny Śląsk; szl, Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; cs, Horní Slezsko; german: Oberschlesien; Silesian German: ; la, Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, locate ...

and has Russian roots.

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References

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