Michaela Haas

Michaela Haas, from 2001 Michaela Maxwell (born 1970 in Erding ) is a German journalist, television presenter and author.

Life

Michaela Haas grew up as the daughter of a business consultant and a judicial secretary at Munich. Even as a student she wrote from the age of 16 posts for the Erdinger local edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. An education at the German School of Journalism, she graduated from with a degree in journalism. Simultaneously, she studied at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich journalism, philosophy and sociology. In 1994, Giovanni di Lorenzo it as a reporter for the page three of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The end of 1997 interrupted for a few years their activities in Germany to work as a freelance correspondent abroad and study in Nepal and France. As of 2001, it stood at WDR and ARD under the name Michaela Maxwell front of the camera, then at Bayerischer Rundfunk again under the name Michaela Haas. 2008 she completed her doctorate at the Asian Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelm University of Bonn in philosophy. She lives in Germany near Munich, in Malibu, California.

TV presenter

From 1994 to 1996 Michaela Haas moderated the 90-minute youth talk show Live from the Alabama on Bavarian television. According to the concept of the program was discussed on controversial or in the public regarded as sensitive issues of the day, for example through genetic engineering or AIDS and brought Michaela Haas recognition and praise as well as difficulties. So sent the BR about the shipment of the PDS not live, but in retrospect as a recording. As the end of the series looming and the editorial line has been relieved of their duties, Michaela Haas went to the WDR and hosted there from 1996 to 1997 the european magazine Boulevard Europe.

After her stay abroad she was 2001-2004 again working as a presenter at the WDR, among other things, for the cultural programs and cultural scene as well as Western style for the monthly television program Culture Weltspiegel. In 2004, she returned to the BR and moderated alternating with Sabine Sauer for a few years the 30-minute interview broadcast under four eyes, including with guests like Werner Schneyder or Lisa Fitz.

Authorship

Since 1994, Michaela Haas is a freelance reporter and interviewer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, SZ-Magazin, Die Zeit, Brigitte, GEO, Merian and other German newspapers and magazines. She has published, among others, interviews and profiles of Sempé and Maria Shriver. As part of the SZ-Magazin their blog PromiLeaks appeared. In America, she writes regularly for the Huffington Post and the Washington Post.

2013 appeared from her the book Dakini Power with twelve biographies of women who work as teachers of Tibetan Buddhism.

As an interviewer, they had also been playing a 30-minute television film about the book author Elizabeth Mattis - Namgyel.

Business

Since 2001 coaches Michaela Haas top managers (eg Porsche, E.ON ) and performs media under interview training for managers and colleagues through. This led in 2008 to set up their own coaching company HAAS live! Communication, Coaching, Consulting, with whom she has worked in Europe and America.