Claudia van Laak – born 1963 in Münster (region) NRW, Germany – is a German radio journalist.
She studied journalism, economics and Spanish in Bamberg and Barcelona.
In freelance she was active for Bavarian Radio and Radio Z [de], followed by June 1990 a permanent position as an editor at Central German Broadcast Stadion MDR.
Until in 1996 she joined Deutschlandradio (Deutschlandfunk) as regional correspondent in Thuringia, and later in Brandenburg, since 2009 in Berlin.
[2] Since 2004 she is the (co-)author of over 40 broadcasts of the daily background magazine on Deutschlandfunk at 06:40 pm on political and social topics.