Dr. Antonia Rados

The Austrian Antonia Rados (born 1953) has become one of the most popular foreign correspondents on German-language television in recent years. In particular, her reporting on the Iraq war in 2003 and the democratization developments in North Africa and the Middle East in spring 2011, which was often broadcast live under life-threatening conditions, brought Antonia Rados international recognition. Born in Klagenfurt, she completed her studies in political science in Salzburg, Paris and Bologna with a Dr. rer. phil. degree. Since 1979 she has been a freelancer at ORF and author of reports and documentaries in Lebanon and Iran. Since 1989, she has reported from Eastern Europe, including on the revolution in Romania in December 1989. After three years as a special correspondent at ARD, she moved to RTL in 1993, becoming head of the RTL office in Paris in 1995 and the channel's chief foreign correspondent a year later. At the beginning of 2008, she briefly moved to ZDF. Rados was to strengthen the "heute-journal" team around Claus Kleber and travel to the world's hotspots, particularly for reports and documentaries.