Antonia Rados is one of RTL’s most famous faces, after all, the reporter has been reporting from crisis areas around the world for a quarter of a century. At the age of 69, the native Austrian is now ending her TV career.
After 25 years, RTL says goodbye to Antonia Rados. As the broadcaster announced, the reporter and journalist will give up her TV career there after 25 years. Most recently, Rados worked for RTL and ntv in the Ukraine in the spring. “RTL was my journalistic home for more than a quarter of a century and I have enjoyed working for the station over the years,” Rados is quoted as saying in the statement.
You have received many opportunities to realize yourself as a reporter. She wishes the new generation all the best at RTL. In return, Stephan Schmitter, Managing Director of RTL News, among other things, only has words of praise for the 69-year-old: “Antonia Rados is an extraordinary reporter who, with her knowledge of the country and its people, covers both the political and everyday life in the crisis regions of this region made the world more transparent for all of us and thus also contributed to the fact that RTL has held an outstanding position in crisis reporting since the 90s. We would like to thank her for her courageous commitment and the great cooperation.”
Antonia Rados became known to a wide audience during the course of the Iraq war in 2003 because of her live reporting from Baghdad. In her long career, she has received numerous awards, including the Robert Geisendörfer Prize for her report “Feuertod” about Afghan women who set themselves on fire. Rados can also call the German TV Award its own.
The Austrian started her career at ORF and moved to Germany to WDR in the early 1990s. Since 1993, the Klagenfurt native has been working for RTL. In 2008 she switched to ZDF as a special correspondent for a short time, but returned to RTL just a year later, for which she has worked ever since.
