Pinar Atalay

Pinar Atalay (born 27 April 1978) is a German radio and television presenter.

Pinar Atalay
Atalay in 2018
Born (1978-04-27) 27 April 1978
Lemgo, West Germany
Occupation(s)Radio and television presenter

Life and career

Atalay was born to Turkish immigrants parents in Lemgo, West Germany. After high school she ran, for one year, a boutique in Lemgo.[1] She then worked as an intern at Radio NRW and Radio Lippe. She later worked as a freelancer and trainee, and was, for a time, an early-morning presenter at the local radio station Antenne Münster.[1]

On WDR Fernsehen, Atalay regularly hosted Cosmo TV. For ARD-aktuell, she hosted regular news and special programs, including for Das Erste. She also worked as a reporter and presenter for NDR Fernsehen, NDR Radio and Radio Bremen. From 2010 onwards, she presented programmes on Phoenix. In March 2014, Atalay became a presenter of the Tagesthemen evening news, succeeding Ingo Zamperoni.[2] In a 2018 survey conducted by Forsa Institute, she was voted one of Germany's most trusted news presenters.[3]

In addition to her role as presenter, Atalay wrote articles for the German business magazine Plusminus from 2014.[4]

In June 2021, German private TV channel RTL announced that Atalay would be starting as news anchor in August 2021.[5] Alongside Peter Kloeppel, she moderated one of three TV election debates between the three candidates to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel – Annalena Baerbock, Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz – ahead of the 2021 elections, which was aired live on both RTL and n-tv during prime-time.[6]

Other activities
  • Jugend debattiert, Member of the Board of Trustees[7]

Personal life

In January 2017, Atalay gave birth to a daughter.[8]

References
  1. Antje Hildebrandt: Pinar Atalay, die charmante Nussknackerin.
  2. Neue "Tagesthemen"-Sprecherin Pinar Atalay.
  3. Vertrauenswürdigster Nachrichtenmoderator ist Claus Kleber Der Tagesspiegel, 21 March 2018.
  4. "Moderation". daserste.de (in German). Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  5. "TV-Hammer: Pinar Atalay wechselt von den ARD-Tagesthemen exklusiv zu RTL" (in German). rtl.de. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  6. Frank Lübberding (29 August 2021), Vor dem Triell bei RTL: Kommt Scholz? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  7. Board of Trustees Archived 16 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine Jugend debattiert.
  8. Pinar Atalay ist Mutter geworden. Zeit Online, 11 March 2017.
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