Pinar Atalay (born 27 April 1978) is a German radio and television presenter.

Life and career

Atalay was born to Turkish immigrants parents in

Lemgo Lemgo (; ) is a university and old Hanseatic League, Hanseatic town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated between the Teutoburg Forest and the Weser Uplands, 25 km east of Bielefeld and 70 km west of H ...

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. After high school she ran, for one year, a boutique in Lemgo.Antje Hildebrandt
''Pinar Atalay, die charmante Nussknackerin.''
/ref> She then worked as an intern at and . She later worked as a freelancer and trainee, and was, for a time, an early-morning presenter at the local radio station . On

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, Atalay regularly hosted Cosmo TV. For ARD-aktuell, she hosted regular news and special programs, including for

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. She also worked as a reporter and presenter for

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, NDR Radio and

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. From 2010 onwards, she presented programmes on Phoenix. In March 2014, Atalay became a presenter of the ''

Tagesthemen ''Tagesthemen'' () is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Helge Fuhst, Aline Abboud, Ingo Zamperoni and . Second only to the 20:00 '' Tagesschau'' ("Review of the Day") ''Tagesthemen'' ("Issues of the ...

'' evening news, succeeding

Ingo Zamperoni Ingo Antonio Zamperoni (born May 3, 1974, in Wiesbaden, West Germany) is a German news presenter and journalist. Between 2012 and 2014, he was the presenter of the ''Tagesthemen'' news magazine on the Das Erste channel, a role he continued in Oct ...

. In a 2018 survey conducted by

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, she was voted one of Germany's most trusted news presenters. In addition to her role as presenter, Atalay wrote articles for the German business magazine Plusminus from 2014. In June 2021, German private TV channel

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announced that Atalay would be starting as news anchor in August 2021. Alongside

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, she moderated one of three TV election debates between the three candidates to succeed

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–

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and

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– ahead of the 2021 elections, which was aired live on both RTL and

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during prime-time.

Other activities

* ''Jugend debattiert'', Member of the Board of Trustees

Personal life

In January 2017, Atalay gave birth to a daughter.''Pinar Atalay ist Mutter geworden''
Zeit Online, 11 March 2017.

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Atalay, Pinar 1978 births Living people People from Lemgo German people of Turkish descent German broadcast news analysts German television presenters German women television presenters German women television journalists German television journalists ARD (broadcaster) people RTL Group people Norddeutscher Rundfunk people Westdeutscher Rundfunk people 21st-century German journalists German television news anchors 21st-century German women