Barbara Hahlweg (born November 29, 1968, in Erlangen) is a German journalist and television presenter of the ZDF program heute.
This was followed by a year in the US and finally a master's degree in communication science with the subsidiary subjects economics and market and advertising psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
She is married to Peter Arens, head of the ZDF main editorial department for history and science,[2] and has three daughters.
[3] Since 2014 Barbara Hahlweg has been a member of the advisory board for the Heraeus Education Foundation and is patron of the Ronald McDonald House in Erlangen.
Since 2017, she has been an honorary member of the association Tangeni Shilongo Namibia e. V.[4] Through her husband Peter Arens, Barbara Hahlweg met the writer John Irving, about whom Arens had made a TV documentary in 1999, which was broadcast on the TV channel Arte in 2000.