Sonia Mikich

Sonia Seymour Mikich (born 13 July 1951 in Oxford) is a German TV journalist.

Education After studying political sciences, sociology, and philosophy from 1972 to 1979 at the RWTH Aachen University. She worked as a research associate with the institute's Arnold-Gehlen Research Group. In 1985 she received a scholarship from the German Marshall Fund.

Career Since 1984 editor and reporter for the WDR's foreign TV broadcasting group 1992–1998 – Correspondent in Moscow, since 1995 as first woman to serve as head of the broadcasting studio 1998–2001 – Head of the ARD studio in Paris Since 2002 chief editor and presenter of the ARD's Monitor newsmagazine Since 2004 head of the ARD/WDR documentary magazine Die story, WDR TV, Cologne Since 2012 moderator of weekly talk show Presseclub 2014–2018 – Editor-in-Chief, WDR TV, Cologne

Her work as chronicler of the First Chechen War in Moscow was awarded in 1998 with the Bundesverdienstkreuz.

On 17 November 2016, Seymour Mikich and Der Spiegel editor-in-chief Klaus Brinkbäumer conducted the only TV interview with President Barack Obama on his last official trip to Germany.

Other activities Civis Media Foundation, Member of the advisory board (since 2013)

Filmography 1993, Mordsliebe Moskau, WDR 3 1993, Brudermord – Putsch 93, ARD 1993, Davonfliegen wie Ikarus – Aussteiger im neuen Rußland, WDR 1995, Mascha, 15, hat viele Kerle... Jugend in Rußland, WDR (mit Telestar 1996 ausgezeichnet) 1995, Der Gotteskrieger und die Kellerfrauen, ARD 1996, Das Duell – Jelzin gegen Sjuganow, ARD 1996, Mein Moskau, WDR 1996, Die Krönung – Portrait Boris Jelzin zur Wiederwahl, ARD 1996, Zar Boris und die Brandstifter – Tschetschenienkrieg und die Ursachen, ARD 1997, Brotlos, aber hochgerüstet – Armee in der Krise, NDR 1997, Polarkreis 3. Klasse, WDR 1997, Moskau Neon, Moskau Samt – Abschied, ARD 1998, Gralssucher und Troubadoure – Pyrenäenreise, ARD 1999, Die Sängerin – Korsikareise, ARD 2000, Sturm und Licht, Bretagnereise, ARD 2000, Spur des Kondor, Peru-Reise, ARD 2000, Bretagne-Reise, WDR 2000, Korsika-Reise, WDR 2000, Flug in den Tod – Concorde-Absturz, ARD 2001, Provence auf Nebenwegen, ARD 2001, Provence: blau-weiss-roter Traum, ARD

Books Der Wille zum Glück Planet Moskau – Geschichten aus dem neuen Russland