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Judith Rakers
Rakers in 2018
Born	Judith Deborah Rakers (1976-01-06) 6 January 1976 (age 48) [1] [2] Paderborn, West Germany
Occupation(s)	Journalist, TV presenter
Years active	Early 2000s – present
Career
Station	ARD
Country	Germany
Website	judithrakers.com

Judith Deborah Rakers (born 6 January 1976) is a German journalist and television presenter.

Rakers was born in Paderborn, West Germany, and grew up in Bad Lippspringe with her single father. After graduating at Pelizaeus-Gymnasium Paderborn, from 1995 to 2001 she studied journalism and communication studies, German philology and modern and contemporary history at the University of Münster. In parallel, she worked as a radio presenter at the radio stations Radio Hochstift and Antenne Münster.^{[ citation needed]}

From January 2004 to 17 January 2010, Rakers presented the Hamburg Journal for local TV station Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

From 7 July 2005 to 31 January 2024, Rakers presented the Tagesschau news programme on ARD. ^{[3] [4]} She also read the news in the Tagesthemen, Nachtmagazin and Morgenmagazin. ^[2] Rakers also presents Radio Bremen's talk show 3 nach 9. On 14 May 2011 she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, together with Stefan Raab and Anke Engelke.

Media related to Judith Rakers at Wikimedia Commons

• Judith Rakers' official website

Preceded by Nadia Hasnaoui, Haddy N'jie and Erik Solbakken

Eurovision Song Contest presenter 2011 With: Anke Engelke and Stefan Raab

Succeeded by Leyla Aliyeva, Nargiz Berk-Petersen and Eldar Gasimov