Sabine Christiansen is a German journalist and television presenter.

Career

After finishing school in Preetz, Christiansen worked at Lufthansa

Lufthansa

Deutsche Lufthansa AG is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried. The name of the company is derived from Luft , and Hansa .The airline is the world's fourth-largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried, operating...

 from 1976 to 1982, then apprenticed in journalism at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Norddeutscher Rundfunk is a public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR transmits for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein...

 in Hamburg until 1985. She ultimately became a regular presenter for the ARD

ARD

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's national TV news journal Tagesthemen

Tagesthemen

Tagesthemen is one of Germany's prime daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Tom Buhrow. Second only to the 8:00 PM Tagesschau Tagesthemen is the most important newscast of the ARD...

. Upon leaving Tagesthemen in January 1998, she hosted her own eponymous talk show, Sabine Christiansen, which ran until 2007.

Awards

• 1990: Goldene Kamera, Bambi
  Bambi (prize)
  The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",...
  
  
• 1992: Bayerischer Fernsehpreis
  Bayerischer Fernsehpreis
  Bayerischer Fernsehpreis is an award presented by the government of Bavaria, Germany since 1989.- 2010 :* Nina Gummich, Nachwuchsförderpreis * Klaus Doldinger, Bavarian Prime Minister's Prize- 2009 :...
  
  
• 1995: Adolf Grimme Award
• 1996: Goldener Löwe
• 2001: Bambi, Courage Award
• 2002: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Legion of Honour, Deutscher Fernsehpreis
  Deutscher Fernsehpreis
  The Deutscher Fernsehpreis is a German award for television programming, created in 1999 by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created as a equivalent to the Emmy Awards though it is not organized by an academy and is awarded annually in September or October...
  
  
• 2005: Women’s World Award

External links

• website by company of Sabine Christiansen
• Jens König: H.-U. Jörges and „Christiansen“: Stimmungsmacher der Hartz-Republik, taz, 31 May 2006
• LobbyControl: Sabine Christiansen – Schaubühne der Einflussreichen und Meinungsmacher, 7 September 2006
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung – Wie eine Unpolitische Politik machte. 10 February 2007
• Sabine Christiansens Abschied. Spiegel Online, 24 June 2007

• References