Jana Thiel

Jana Thiel (17 October 1971 – 11 July 2016) was a German sports presenter and journalist for ZDF. She worked at the radio station Antenne Brandenburg before moving on to the sports department of Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg. Thiel joined Deutsche Welle's television station DW-TV in 1999 and worked there until 2002. She began working at ZDF in 2000 as a sports reporter for the television programme ZDF-Morgenmagazin and then the broadcaster's primary sports department as an editor and presenter of the main evening sports bulletin on heute four years later. Thiel covered the Winter Olympic Games, the Summer Olympic Games, the Paralympic Games, Alpine skiing, the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and the FEI World Equestrian Games.

Biography

On 17 October 1971, Thiel was born in Peitz im Spreewald in the Spreewald. She was raised in Brandenburg. Thiel's career in journalist began in 1989 when she worked at the radio station Antenne Brandenburg, which was part of the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) in Potsdam, as an editor, presenter and reporter. In 1994, she made the switch to television, working in the sports department of the ORB, to gain further experience. From 1997 to 1999, Thiel was a student of journalism at the Free University of Berlin whilst continuing her media career and broadening her knowledge.