Sonia Seymour Mikich (born 13 July 1951 in
Oxford
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) is a German TV journalist.
Education
After studying
political sciences
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,
sociology
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, and
philosophy
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from 1972–1979 at the
RWTH Aachen University
RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...
. She worked as research associate with the institute's
Arnold-Gehlen Research Group. In 1985 she received a scholarship from the
German Marshall Fund
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Founded in 1972 through a gift from the We ...
.
Career
* Since 1984 editor and reporter for the
WDR's foreign TV broadcasting group
* 1992–1998 – Correspondent in
Moscow
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, since 1995 as first woman to serve as head of the broadcasting studio
* 1998–2001 – Head of the
ARD studio in
Paris
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* Since 2002 chief editor and presenter of the ARD's ''Monitor'' newsmagazine
* Since 2004 head of the ARD/WDR documentary magazine ''Die story'',
WDR TV
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,
Cologne
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* Since 2012 moderator of weekly talk show ''Presseclub''
* 2014–2018 – Editor-in-Chief, WDR TV, Cologne
Her work as chronicler of the
in Moscow was awarded in 1998 with the
Bundesverdienstkreuz
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.
On 17 November 2016, Seymour Mikich and ''
Der Spiegel
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'' editor-in-chief
Klaus Brinkbäumer
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Notable persons whose family name is Klaus
*Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American basebal ...
conducted the only TV interview with
President
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Automobiles
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Barack Obama
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on his last official trip to Germany.
Other activities
*
Civis Media Foundation, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2013)
Advisory Board: Sonja Seymour Mikich
Civis Media Foundation.
Filmography
* 1993, Mordsliebe Moskau, WDR 3
* 1993, Brudermord – Putsch 93, ARD
* 1993, Davonfliegen wie Ikarus – Aussteiger im neuen Rußland, WDR
* 1995, Mascha, 15, hat viele Kerle... Jugend in Rußland, WDR
* (mit Telestar 1996 ausgezeichnet)
* 1995, Der Gotteskrieger und die Kellerfrauen, ARD
* 1996, Das Duell – Jelzin gegen Sjuganow, ARD
* 1996, Mein Moskau, WDR
* 1996, Die Krönung – Portrait Boris Jelzin zur Wiederwahl, ARD
* 1996, Zar Boris und die Brandstifter – Tschetschenienkrieg und die Ursachen, ARD
* 1997, Brotlos, aber hochgerüstet – Armee in der Krise, NDR
* 1997, Polarkreis 3. Klasse, WDR
* 1997, Moskau Neon, Moskau Samt – Abschied, ARD
* 1998, Gralssucher und Troubadoure – Pyrenäenreise, ARD
* 1999, Die Sängerin – Korsikareise, ARD
* 2000, Sturm und Licht, Bretagnereise, ARD
* 2000, Spur des Kondor, Peru-Reise, ARD
* 2000, Bretagne-Reise, WDR
* 2000, Korsika-Reise, WDR
* 2000, Flug in den Tod – Concorde-Absturz, ARD
* 2001, Provence auf Nebenwegen, ARD
* 2001, Provence: blau-weiss-roter Traum, ARD
Books
''Der Wille zum Glück''
''Planet Moskau – Geschichten aus dem neuen Russland''
References
External links
Homepage
at the WDR
Was nun, ferner Bärtiger?
(''What's next, bearded one?'') by Sonia Mikich, ''die tageszeitung
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'', February 6, 2006
English translation
at signandsight.com
with Joseph E. Stiglitz
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, ARD/Monitor, 14 May 2002
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German television journalists
German women journalists
German people of Serbian descent
20th-century German journalists
21st-century German journalists
1951 births
Living people
People from Oxford
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
ARD (broadcaster) people
Westdeutscher Rundfunk people
20th-century German women
21st-century German women