Christian Sievers

Christian Sievers (born 1969 in Offenbach am Main) is a German journalist and news presenter.

Career

After graduating secondary school with his Abitur in 1989, Sievers studied law in Berlin and Freiburg.[1] During his studies, he also worked at various radio and television stations: from 1989 to 1991 as a reporter at RIAS Berlin, as a presenter and reporter at Südwestfunk in Freiburg between 1991 and 1993, and from 1993 to 1995 as a presenter and editor at the same station in Baden-Baden. In 1995, Sievers completed his first law Staatsexamen. Between 1996 and 1997, Sievers worked as a reporter at the ABC station WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, as a fellow of the Carl Duisberg Society.

Since 1997, Sievers has been a presenter, reporter and editor for ZDF. From 1997 to 2009, Sievers presented the ZDF Morgenmagazin, ZDF's breakfast programme.[2]

From 2008 to 2009, Sievers presented the graphics and statistics sections of ZDF's election broadcasts, replacing Steffen Seibert.[3]

From October 2009 to August 2014, Sievers was ZDF's Middle East correspondent, based in Tel Aviv. In January 2013 he replaced Maybrit Illner as presenter of Heute Journal, of which he acts as a relief presenter; since 8 September 2014, Sievers has also been chief presenter of the 7 pm edition of heute, ZDF's flagship newscast.

gollark: So you think that the centristic political views here just happen to be exactly the right ones for modern civilisation's situation and others don't work?
gollark: Past societies have lasted hundreds of years with entirely different ones.
gollark: Again: the "centre" as it stands now is purely an artifact of what our present political climate looks like.
gollark: You could argue that only the current ones are stable, but this is visibly wrong.
gollark: "Centrists" in our society hold views which are very weird compared to those of "centrists" in the past or possibly some other countries.

References
  1. "Biografie: Christian Sievers". ZDF. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  2. "Ein zerstrittenes Paar und ein nicht allzu komischer Vogel". Die Welt. 2 April 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  3. "Neuer 'Mann der Zahlen' bei ZDF-Wahlsendungen". Presseportal.de. 14 February 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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