Background
Franziska Fischer was born in 1968 in Göttingen.
Franziska Fischer was born in 1968 in Göttingen.
She studied theatrical studies and journalism in Frankfurt and Berlin and completed several internships at newspaper offices and television stations.
When Sonderforschungsbereich (now Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) she began as a reporter for the Radio Berlin 88,8 and the Berliner Abendschau. She then moved into the newsroom of Deutsche Welle (DW), where she got her first moderation experience. In 2002 she became a correspondent for three years to Brussels in the European Centre of Deutsche Welle, where she reported on the enlargement of the European Union and also moderated the magazine Europa Aktuell.
In early 2009 Fischer joined ZDF. Since October 2009, she has also been a presenter of heute and the representative for Anja Charlet in Heute Mittag.
Since the summer of 2010, she has occasionally presented the show Heute – in Deutschland, the weekend editions of heuteNews as well as the Sunday Morning News. Franziska Fischer speaks fluent English and French and has published the book Peel, wir werden gebraucht! about the British television series The Avengers.