Claudia van Laak


Claudia van Laak – born 1963 in Münster NRW, Germany – is a German radio journalist. For the Germany radio she is correspondent for Berlin and chief of the Berlin broadcast studio.

Life

She made her entrance at the WDR broadcast. German studies. She studied journalism, economics and Spanish in Bamberg and Barcelona. In freelance she was active for Bavarian Radio and, followed by June 1990 a permanent position as an editor at Central German Broadcast Stadion MDR. Until in 1996 she joined Deutschlandradio as regional correspondent in Thuringia, and later in Brandenburg, since 2009 in Berlin.
Since 2004 she is the author of over 40 broadcasts of the daily background magazine on Deutschlandfunk at 06:40 pm on political and social topics. She is present in the Campus & Career and other broadcasts almost several times a week in Deutschlandfunk Broadcast Station.

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