Steffen Seibert
Andreas Steffen Seibert ( born June 7, 1960 in Munich) is a German former journalist and current government spokesman. Since 11 August 2010, he is Head of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government in the rank of Secretary of State civil servants.
Prior to joining the federal government Seibert was a television journalist at ZDF.
Life
Training
Seibert attended the Tellkampfschule in Hanover and studied from 1981 to 1987 History, Literature and Public Law at the University of Hamburg and at the London School of Economics.
Public service broadcasting
1989 Seibert began as an intern at ZDF. After he had worked in various newsrooms, including the now -journal, he reported for ZDF from 1992 to 1995 as a foreign correspondent from Washington. Back in Germany, he hosted the first ZDF morning show, followed by the ZDF Evening Magazine, hello Germany (1997-2000) and ZDF.reporter (2001-2003). Seibert was also used for special programs. Up to the state elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony in January 2008, he spent nine years working as a man of the numbers in the ZDF - election coverage. For his moderation of the special programs on ZDF on the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, he was honored with the Golden Camera.
From 13 January 2003 to July 4, 2010 Seibert presented the main mission of the daily news at 19:00 clock on ZDF as the successor of Klaus -Peter Siegloch. For the special program we want to help! , In the ZDF and the Bild newspaper collected 40.6 million euros in donations for the victims of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, he won in 2005 along with co-host Johannes B. Kerner the audience Bambi. From 28 May 2007 to July 3, 2010 Seibert was also the successor of Klaus -Peter Siegloch Anchorman of the now -journals; his co- presenter was Dunja Hayali with which he and the ZDF series presented the great moments of Germans from November 10, 2009.
Government spokesman
Since 11 August 2010, Seibert government spokesman for the German government, appointed on the proposal of the Federal Chancellor by the President. He took over from Ulrich Wilhelm, the director of the Bavarian Radio (BR ) was.
In this role, Seibert tweet since 28 February 2011 under the official account RegSprecher.
Others commitment
Seibert involved as a UNICEF representative; In 2003 he traveled to Angola, in March 2005 he visited as part of an AIDS awareness campaign on the Ukrainian cities of Odessa and Kiev. Seibert, himself a father of a premature infant, by the end of 2008 was a patron of the Federation " The premature child eV ". Since January 2010 he has been the official sponsor of the Children's Hospice Bethel.
Private
Seibert lives with his wife - a painter - and his three children ( a daughter and two sons ) in Berlin. He was baptized in a Protestant ceremony and converted to Catholicism in 2007.
Works
- On Air! How television is made. Rowohlt Paperback -Verlag, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-21334-6.
- My, your, our Germany: The most moving moments of the last 60 years. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-411-07811-0.