Anja Reschke
Reschke during the 2018 Grimme Awards
Born	(1972-10-07) 7 October 1972 (age 51) Munich, West Germany (now Germany)
Occupation(s)	Journalist, TV presenter

Anja Reschke (born 7 October 1972) is a German journalist and television presenter.

Life

Reschke was born in Munich in 1972, then part of West Germany. She studied political science at the University of Munich. After a traineeship at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), she worked as a freelance journalist for various programmes.

In 2001, Reschke began presenting the political television magazine Panorama and the following year the show ZAPP. She also presents Wissen vor acht ("Knowledge ante 8 PM").

In 2018, she won the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award and the Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism.^[1]

In 2019, Reschke was appointed director of NDR's culture and documentation area.^[2] The same year, she received the Siebenpfeiffer Prize for her commitment to protecting and upholding the freedom of the press.^[3] With creating her own show Reschke Fernsehen in 2023 she gave up the position.

Filmography

• 2000: Politiker und die Zweitwohnungssteuer
• 2000: Die Kohl-Rolle
• 2003: Reach for the Stars as Katja
• 2010: Das Märchen von der Chancengleichheit
• 2011: Die Nacht der politischen Magazine
• 2011: Das Lügenfernsehen
• 2011: Die Biolüge
• 2012: Energiewende: Größenwahn statt Megaplan
• 2013: Unter Lehrern
• 2016: Samira (short film) as journalist

Works

• Pech gehabt. Versendet sich. In: Stephan Weichert (publisher): Wozu noch Journalismus? Wie das Internet einen Beruf verändert. Mit einem Geleitwort von Heribert Prantl, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-30004-6, p. 153 ff.
• Die Unbequemen. Wie Panorama die Republik verändert hat. Redline-Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86881-306-7.
• as editor: Und das ist erst der Anfang. Deutschland und die Flüchtlinge. Rowohlt Polaris, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-63184-9.
• Haltung zeigen! Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-63424-6.