She is sensitive and yet tough. Asking questions has always been her favorite pastime. Sandra Maischberger has turned it into a profession.
your shipment “Maischberger” runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the first. Guests include politicians, journalists, scientists, and regularly comedians, with whom she discusses current topics and backgrounds.
Read more about the moderator Sandra Maischberger here.
Characteristics
origin and career
Sandra Maischberger was born in Munich in 1966, then moved to Italy. She lived in Frascati near Rome until she was eight.
She passed her Abitur in Munich. She dropped out of a degree in communication sciences at the University of Munich after three days. To do this, she joined the radio station Bayern 2 as a moderator, initially working for the city newspaper in Munich, the Musikexpress and the SWF3.
She did her training as an editor at the German School of Journalism in Munich.
She came to Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1989 via the television station Tele 5, where she worked in the news department, as a presenter of a morning magazine and the talk show “Live aus dem Schlachthof”. Here she succeeded Günther Jauch.
This was followed by talk shows such as “Talk im Turm” (Sat.1, 1991), “0137” (Premiere, 1992), “FreitagNacht” (Vox, 1996), “Greenpeace TV” (RTL, 1997) and “Maischberger” (n -tv, 2000)
Helmut Schmidt (1918 to 2015) and Sandra Maischberger during the recording of the ARD talk show People at Maischberger in Hamburg’s Hotel Atlantic on April 27. 2015
Her most successful program has been running on ARD since September 2003 – “Menschen bei Maischberger”, a classic talk show that started as the successor format to “Boulevard Bio”. Since the end of 2015 the show has been called “Maischberger” and since May 2022 “Maischberger” has even been broadcast twice a week.
By the way: There is also one for the show Podcastto be found in the ARD audio library.
along with her husbandSandra Maischberger has her own company that also produces her talk show.
Happy to discuss: Former Federal President Joachim Gauck with Sandra Maischberger on May 9, 2023
private life
Maischberger has been married to cameraman Jan Kerhart from Czechoslovakia since 1994, so his silver wedding anniversary is already behind him. The couple lives in Berlin. Since February 2007 a son was born.
Maischberger says the following about their marriage:
… when I got married, I expected it to last. After all, you make a promise and then you try to make it happen together.
Awards (selection)
2000: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize
2000, 2016, 2020, 2022: German TV award for infotainment
2001: Bavarian TV Award
2001: TV Maker of the Year
2002: Hildegard von Bingen Prize for journalism
2002: The Golden Salmon (Norwegian Embassy Prize)
2002: Golden Camera (TV journalism)
2008: Golden Camera (Best Information) together with Jan Kerhart
2013: Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
2016: Romy in the Information category
social commitment
In 2008, Sandra Maischberger founded the non-profit association Vincentino e. V., which initiates and supports cultural projects at Berlin schools.
She is also a member of the board of trustees of “Jugend debattet”.
