Jens Riewa

Jens Riewa (born 2 July 1963 in Lübbenau, Brandenburg) is a German television presenter and broadcast news analyst for the Tagesschau, a programme produced by the German broadcaster ARD.

Jens Riewa grew up in Lübben. He made his Abitur in Lübben in 1982.

Thereafter he spent a prolonged three years' military service with the National People's Army.

After having given up his studies for technology of the building industry at the Verkehrshochschule in Dresden, he underwent a training for air traffic controller.

Then he has been trained for speaking as well as presenting for the radio at the Berliner Rundfunk for two years.

1988 he passed an application test as broadcast news analyst for the DFF. After that he worked for the youth radio DT 64. Between 1988 and 1991 he participated in radio dramas, features, documentations and commercials.

In 1991 he started working for the ARD Tagesschau as a voice actor. He has been working for the ARD-Tagesschau as a broadcast news analyst since 1994.

In 1994 Dieter Thomas Heck discovered him as television presenter for the Deutsche Schlagerparade, after Birgit Schrowange had given up the presentation of the broadcast after only one year. Riewa also presented the German qualifications for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996 and 1997.

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