Michel Friedman spricht mit Katrin Eigendorf – über Chaos

In the new season, the philosopher, publicist and author Michel Friedman invites the award-winning German television journalist and war reporter Katrin Eigendorf to a discussion. The topic: chaos. On October 23, she and Friedman will reflect on this term and all the implications it entails.

Katrin Eigendorf was born in Krefeld/Tönisvorst, studied journalism and history at the Institute for Journalism in Dortmund and at the Institut Français de Presse in Paris. After a traineeship at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne, she worked as a reporter at the ARD studio in Paris and then as an editor at ARD Tagesthemen.
From 1993 to 1999, she reported from Moscow as a correspondent for RTL. She has worked for ZDF since 1999, initially as a foreign affairs reporter, later again as a correspondent in Moscow (2015-2017), then as an international reporter (2018-2023) and since 2023 as a special international correspondent. Her reports have taken her to Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria, Turkey and Lebanon, among other places.

In 2022, she published the book “Putin’s War. How Ukrainians are fighting for our freedom” published by Fischer Verlag. In addition to her journalistic work, Eigendorf and her husband Jörg Eigendorf are involved in Philip Julius e. V., which they founded to support families with severely disabled children - named after their son who died in 2011.

Katrin Eigendorf has been honored with numerous awards for her outstanding reporting, including the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize, the Grimme Prize, the German Television Prize, the Geisendörfer Prize, the Walter Lübcke Democracy Prize and the award as Journalist of the Year 2022 by medium magazin.

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Katrin Eigendorf

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