Lilli Gruber

Dietlinde ( called Lilli ) Gruber ( born April 19, 1957 in Bolzano ) is an Italian journalist, presenter and politician from South Tyrol.

Life

By profession a journalist, she worked as the time the first woman in Italy over many years moderator of the main news program tg1 of the Italian state television RAIUno, but also worked as a journalist in foreign conflict zones. In addition, Lilli Gruber has produced several programs for the German private television; In 1996 she was presenter of FOCUS TV.

The television she left ahead of the European elections, in which she criticized by the Berlusconi government increasingly restricted press freedom. In the elections for the European Parliament in 2004 she was in the Italian capital Rome, the duel of their party, the Left Alliance The Olive, decide Berlusconi's Forza Italia clearly against itself. Overall, " Lila the Red " as it is also known to get as many preference votes than any other candidate in that election. Even in their home country South Tyrol could bind numerous voices in itself.

In the European Parliament in Strasbourg, she belonged to the Socialist Group (PES ) to. She stood near the Left Democrats, but distanced himself from 2007 initially their merger with the center party for La Margherita Partito Democratico. In September 2008, Lilli Gruber announced not to run in the upcoming 2009 elections to the European Parliament and to devote himself again to journalism. Already in mid- September 2008, she took over the moderation of the background magazine Otto e mezzo in the Italian private TV station La 7

In November 2003, she was awarded the lowest level of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on whose initiative.