Sonia Seymour Mikich

Sonia Seymour Mikich (born 13 July 1951 in Oxford) is a German TV journalist. After studying political sciences, sociology, and philosophy from 1972-1979 at the RWTH Aachen Institute of Technology in Aachen she worked as research associate with the institute's Arnold-Gehlen Research Group. In 1985 she received a scholarship from the German Marshall Fund.

Career

Since 1984 editor and reporter for the WDR's foreign TV broadcasting group
From 1992-1998 correspondent in Moscow, since 1995 as head of the broadcasting studio
From 1998-2001 head of the ARD studio in Paris
Since 2002 chief editor and presenter of the ARD's Monitor newsmagazine
Since 2004 head of the ARD/WDR documentation magazine Die story, WDR TV, Cologne
Since 2014 Editor-in-Chief, WDR TV, Cologne

Her work as chronicler of the First Chechen War in Moscow was awarded in 1998 with the Bundesverdienstkreuz.

1993, Mordsliebe Moskau, WDR 3
1993, Brudermord - Putsch 93, ARD
1993, Davonfliegen wie Ikarus - Aussteiger im neuen Rußland, WDR
1995, Mascha, 15, hat viele Kerle… Jugend in Rußland, WDR
(mit Telestar 1996 ausgezeichnet)
1995, Der Gotteskrieger und die Kellerfrauen, ARD
1996, Das Duell - Jelzin gegen Sjuganow, ARD
1996, Mein Moskau, WDR
1996, Die Krönung - Portrait Boris Jelzin zur Wiederwahl, ARD
1996, Zar Boris und die Brandstifter - Tschetschenienkrieg und die Ursachen, ARD
1997, Brotlos, aber hochgerüstet - Armee in der Krise, NDR
1997, Polarkreis 3. Klasse, WDR
1997, Moskau Neon, Moskau Samt - Abschied, ARD
1998, Gralssucher und Troubadoure - Pyrenäenreise, ARD
1999, Die Sängerin - Korsikareise, ARD
2000, Sturm und Licht, Bretagnereise, ARD
2000, Spur des Kondor, Peru-Reise, ARD
2000, Bretagne-Reise, WDR
2000, Korsika-Reise, WDR
2000, Flug in den Tod - Concorde-Absturz, ARD
2001, Provence auf Nebenwegen, ARD
2001, Provence: blau-weiss-roter Traum, ARD

Der Wille zum Glück Planet Moskau - Geschichten aus dem neuen Russland

Homepage at the WDR
Was nun, ferner Bärtiger? (What's next, bearded one?) by Sonia Mikich, die tageszeitung, February 6, 2006 (German) - English translation at signandsight.com
Interview with Joseph E. Stiglitz, ARD/Monitor, 14 May 2002

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 13177021 GND: 121925390 SUDOC: 185876188

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