Michail Paweletz (born 26 March 1965) is a German journalist and television moderator.

Life

Michail Paweletz was born and grew up in

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, Germany on March 26, 1965. After graduating from the Bunsen-Gymnasium Heidelberg, he began studying the violin at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger College or university school of music, universities of music in Germany. It was founded in 1950 as ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik'' (Public college of music) on the base of t ...

, which he completed at the

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, Germany. In addition to studying music, he completed acting and speaking training. After studying music, he began in 1995 as a presenter at the '' ARD-Nachtkonzert'' and as a speaker for

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (; "North German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR (), is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, ...

(NDR). His studies were the prerequisite for his journalistic work at NDR Kultur, where from 1996 he moderated numerous programs, conducted interviews and worked as a reporter. He has been on the screen at ARD-aktuell since 2004, as a speaker and moderator for the news program ''

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'' as well as in '' Nachtmagazin'' and '' Tagesschau-Nachrichten'' on

tagesschau24 Tagesschau24 (, "Review of the Day 24," stylized as tagesschau24) is a German free-to-air television channel owned by ARD and managed by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Launched on 30 August 1997 as "EinsExtra", the channel was renamed ''Tagesschau 24'' ...

. In addition, Paweletz also reads the news on the NDR radio. In 2012, Paweletz appeared as a newscaster in ''

Tatort ("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...

'': '' Ordnung im Lot''. On behalf of

ARD-aktuell ARD-aktuell has been the central television newsroom of the ARD (broadcaster), ARD since 1977. ARD-aktuell is a joint institution of the ARD (broadcaster), ARD. It is located at Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) in Hamburg ...

, he developed the news format Mics-News in 2018, which he moderated in 5 episodes. Paweletz has been the main narrator at ''Tatort. Der Podcast'' (''Tatort. The Podcast'') since 2020. On behalf of tagesschau24 and the NDR Kulturjournal, he developed the format ''Wie rassistisch bist du? Das Experiment'' (''How racist are you? The Experiment'') for

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and TV, which he also moderated.

Literature

* Dayan Kodua (publisher), Susanne Dorn (author): ''My Black Skin: Schwarz. Erfolgreich. Deutsch.'' Verlag seltmann+söhne, Berlin/ Lüdenscheid 2014, .

External links

Literature from and about Michail Paweletz
in the

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Michail Paweletz
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References

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