Maria Makeeva

Maria Makeeva
Born
Maria Igorevna Makeeva

(1974-08-25) 25 August 1974 (age 50)[citation needed]
CitizenshipUSSR→Russia
Occupation(s)Russian and German journalist, radio and television presenter
SpouseAlexei Kozlov (businessman)

Maria Igorevna Makeeva (Russian: Мария Игоревна Макеева) is a Russian and German journalist, radio and television presenter.

Biography

Maria Makeeva was born on 25 August 1974 in Moscow.[1] In 1996, she graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities with a degree in museology (art history).[2] For her thesis she studied the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve, where she worked short term as a tour guide.[3]

Career

In October 1995, she started her career as a news presenter on the air of Russkoye Radio, one of the first and at that time the most successful commercial radio station in Russia. In 2007, she left the company, at that time holding the positions of the host of the main daily morning news show and deputy general director of Russian News Service.[4]

From 2007 to 2010, she worked at Silver Rain Radio. She hosted the main evening daily news show[5] and weekly interview with leading Russian businessmen.[6]

In 2010, she joined the independent news channel TV Rain as deputy editor-in-chief and TV-presenter.[7][8] From the very beginning of her work at TV Rain, she anchored the main daily news programme and special broadcasts, covering important events in Russia, such as elections,[9] Russian protests,[10] the trials of Pussy Riot[11] and Alexey Navalny.[12] One of the guests in the studio was Dmitry Medvedev, who was President of the Russian Federation at the time.[13]

She was a special TV Rain correspondent during the 2012 United States presidential election.[14] For two seasons she released the author's shows MAKEEVA about Russian political and public life.[15][16] Produced and hosted the reality project President-2042, where young people born after 1991 competed for the title of the president of the future and participated in all the events in which presidential candidates in democratic countries take part (rallies, debates, etc.).[17]

In 2015, she took the position of director of TV Rain news department and actually fulfilled the duties of the channel's editor-in-chief after Mikhail Zygar left.[18]

In 2017, after moving to Berlin, she started working as editor-in-chief at the German Russian-language TV channel: she renamed it OstWest, rebranded it, and launched dozens of new projects, including the author's weekly news and analysis programme "East-West. The Week".[19]

In 2022, the Ukrainian-Russian-German OstWest team won the German national award (Deutsche Nationalstiftung) for its contribution to German democracy and countering propaganda.[20][21][22][23][24] The Deutsche Nationalstiftung is awarded to people and organizations promoting democracy, participation and cohesion in Germany and Europe.[25]

Also in 2022, OstWest TV was honoured with the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award, Germany award for television journalism.[26]

References

  1. ^ "Мария Макеева: фото, биография, фильмография, новости - Вокруг ТВ". Вокруг ТВ. 2024-01-21. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  2. ^ "ETVNET". www.etvnet.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  3. ^ "Мария Макеева". snob.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  4. ^ "Русская служба новостей вышла из эфира". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  5. ^ "События | Серебряный Дождь". www.silver.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  6. ^ "История Серебряного Дождя: история программы «Деловая среда» | Серебряный Дождь". www.silver.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  7. ^ "Мария Макеева в рубрике «Интервью с ДОЖДЕМ» ответила на вопросы телезрителей". tvrain.tv. 2013-08-12. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  8. ^ "Maria Makeeva". Conference of Human Rights. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  9. ^ "Ассоциация «Голос»: Путин набрал 50,2% голосов". tvrain.tv. 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  10. ^ "Юрий Сапрыкин: «Прохорова не будет, Кудрин будет»". tvrain.tv. 2011-12-24. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  11. ^ "Адвокат охранника и свечницы: я слушал защиту Pussy Riot и удивлялся". tvrain.tv. 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  12. ^ "После «Кировлеса» Навальный ждет дела о краже слона: и что, рыдать у вас в эфире?". tvrain.tv. 2012-12-24. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  13. ^ "Дмитрий Медведев на Дожде. Полная версия". tvrain.tv. 2011-04-26. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  14. ^ "Другие выборы". tvrain.tv. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  15. ^ "Макеева". tvrain.tv. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  16. ^ "Maria Makeeva". Conference of Human Rights. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  17. ^ "Президент-2042". tvrain.tv. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  18. ^ "Война и Наказание | Дискуссия с Михаилом Зыгарем, Иваном Колпаковым и Марией Макеевой". YouTube (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  19. ^ "О нас". OstWest TV (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  20. ^ nationalstiftung (2022-04-28). "Der Förderpreis 2022 geht an OstWest TV". Deutsche Nationalstiftung (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  21. ^ "Wie ein russischer TV-Sender Putin Paroli bietet". www.t-online.de (in German). 2022-04-15. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  22. ^ Hämäläinen, Janita; Schnack, Thies (2022-04-23). "Russische TV-Journalisten in Berlin: »Das ist mein Job - zu sagen, was ist«". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  23. ^ "Kriegsgedenken | can do berlin" (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  24. ^ Zekri, Sonja (2022-05-18). "Fernsehen auf Russisch: der Sender Ost West TV in Berlin". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  25. ^ "Der Deutsche Nationalpreis". Deutsche Nationalstiftung (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  26. ^ "Pressemitteilung 2022 - Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis". www.hanns-joachim-friedrichs.de. Retrieved 2023-11-02.