Claudia van Laak – born 1963 in

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NRW, Germany – is a German radio journalist. For the Germany radio she is correspondent for Berlin and chief of the Berlin broadcast studio.

Life

She made her entrance at the

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broadcast.

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. She studied journalism, economics and Spanish in

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and

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. In freelance she was active for Bavarian Radio and , followed by June 1990 a permanent position as an editor at Central German Broadcast Stadion MDR. Until in 1996 she joined Deutschlandradio (

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) as regional correspondent in

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, and later in

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, since 2009 in

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. Since 2004 she is the (co-)author of over 40 broadcasts of the daily background magazine on Deutschlandfunk at 06:40 pm on political and social topics. She is present in the ''Campus & Career ''and other broadcasts almost several times a week in Deutschlandfunk Broadcast Station.

Awards

* 2002: Special Award of the Central German Journalist Award for her report ''"Radiant Heritage – Ten years ago began the renovation Wismut"'' * 2009: Nomination for the German-Polish Journalist Award for ''"Guben, Gubin and the Neisse – half an year an open border"''

References

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