Antonia Rados

After finishing school with a high school diploma, she studied political science in Paris and Salzburg. She then completed a year as a postgraduate student at Johns Hopkins University for international relations in Bologna, Italy. From 1978 she worked as a freelancer in various editorial offices for two years. In 1980 she became an editor in the foreign policy department of the Austrian television station ORF. Antonia Rados was responsible for reporting on politics in Europe and the Middle East. In 1984 she moved to Washington as a correspondent for ORF. From 1985 she worked as a freelancer for ORF and ITN in Rome. In 1988 Antonia Rados returned to Vienna as editor of the "ORF Foreign Report". In 1991 Antonia Rados was voted "Woman of the Year" in Austria. In the same year she worked as a special correspondent for WDR in Germany. Shortly afterwards she became a special foreign correspondent for RTL. From May 1995, Rados attracted attention as an RTL correspondent and studio manager in Paris. In this position, she accompanied numerous missions as a special correspondent in Kosovo, Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq. In the wake of the Iraq War, which began with US and British troops in March 2003, Antonia Rados, who reported live from Baghdad during the first bombings of the capital and beyond, became one of the most popular journalists on German television. For the documentary "My Friend Saddam", which Rados produced in RTL co-production with the German-French cultural channel Arte, she was awarded the most important Austrian media prize, the "Romy", in 2003. In addition, Rados received the "Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Media Prize for Television Journalism" and the "German Television Prize" for her reporting on Iraq. Since the beginning of September 2003, Antonia Rados has moderated the program "Auslandsreport" for the German news channel N-TV. Rados also received a lot of attention for reports from Iraq, which documented the dramatic political reorganization of the country after the USA stopped official hostilities. In the course of the riots in the suburbs of Paris, which brought with them a state of emergency lasting several weeks in autumn 2005, she once again provided the media with impressive reports, which were once again produced at great risk. Antonia Rados published the non-fiction book "Gucci against Allah" in October 2005. Other publications include "Quotenfieber" (1997) and "Live from Bagdad" from 2003. She is single and lives in Austria and Paris. In early summer 2008 she moved to ZDF. In March 2011, Rados interviewed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In the same year she received the "Bavarian Television Prize" (special prize for her Middle East reporting). In 2012, Rados was awarded the "Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism". As the author of the report "Nachtjournal-Spezial: Die IS-Connection" (RTL), she received the "Bavarian Television Prize" in 2016. In 2018, Rados was awarded the Hans Oelschläger Prize for "outstanding foreign correspondent".