Jana Pareigis

Jana Pareigis (born 23 June 1981 in Hamburg) is a German journalist and television moderator.

[1][2] Pareigis has a polyethnic migration background with relatives in Germany, Sweden and Zimbabwe.

Before that, she had already gained professional experience in the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, the Reuters news agency and various foundations and newspaper publishers.

On 24 February 2021 she presented the 12 o'clock heute news on Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) for the first time.

[7] Pareigis wrote a foreword in 2019 for the new German translation of James Baldwin's volume of essays The Fire Next Time entitled Nach der Flut das Feuer.

Pareigis at the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in 2021