page_title: Manuela Kasper-Claridge
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Manuela Kasper-Claridge / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Mit Kanzlerin Angela Merkel bei der Feier zum 65-jährigen Bestehens der DW English: With German Chancellor Angela Merkel at DW's 65th anniversary celebration.
context_page_description: Manuela Kasper-Claridge is a German journalist.
  Manuela Kasper-Claridge is the editor-in-chief at Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle with around 3,000 employees and freelancers from 60 countries.
context_section_description: Manuela Kasper-Claridge is the daughter of Dieter and Carmen Kasper. After school, she studied Economics and Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin and graduated in 1984. From 1985 to 1986 she completed an internship at West Berlin's public radio and television service SFB (today RBB). Later she trained TV news producers and directors. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked as a news producer for RIAS-TV, covered Germany's Reunification, Central and Eastern European affairs and reported from Washington, D.C.
  Manuela Kasper-Claridge has three children. She lives in Berlin.
caption: With German Chancellor Angela Merkel at DW's 65th anniversary celebration.
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