page_title: Sandra Maischberger
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Sandra Maischberger / Career
caption_attribution_description: en:Sandra Maischberger Deutsch: Sandra Maischberger bei der Verleihung des Hildegard-von-Bingen-Preises 2002
context_page_description: Sandra Maischberger is a German journalist, talk show host, and author.
context_section_description: Maischberger started her career at the Bayerischer Rundfunk and has since been working for various television stations including Premiere, RTL, VOX, n-tv, and ARD. From 1992, she moderated 0137, a live-broadcast talk show, in rotation with Roger Willemsen.
  Maischberger has written several books including Hand aufs Herz (an interview with Helmut Schmidt) and Die musst Du kennen — Menschen machen Geschichte, an encyclopaedia of the most prominent scientists, artists and politicians from classical times to the present.
  Since 2003, Maischberger has been moderating the talk show maischberger. die woche on Das Erste. In 2009, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany, she interviewed Chancellor Angela Merkel. Alongside Maybrit Illner, Peter Kloeppel and Claus Strunz, Maischberger also moderated the only TV election debate between Merkel and her competitor Martin Schulz ahead of the 2017 elections, which was aired live on four of Germany's most-watched television channels during prime-time. In her talk show, she has also interviewed international guests, including Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis of Greece (2016) and the Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of Austria (2018).
  Maischberger co-hosted the annual German Television Award ceremony in 2002, 2010 and 2014. She served on the award’s jury in 2001, 2002 and 2006.
caption: Maischberger in 2002
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