Dagmar Reim

Dagmar Reim, director general, German public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)

Dagmar Reim has been the director general of the German public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) since May 1, 2003. Reim was born on November 4, 1951 in Heidelberg and went on to study history, German literature and journalism in Mainz and Munich. After graduating in 1975, she worked as an editor in Munich at Bayerischer Rundfunk before moving on to Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne in 1979. In 1986, Reim moved to Hamburg, where she began working as a radio journalist at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). There, she began managing the media relations office in 1992 and was a spokeswoman for ARD for two years. In 1995, Reim became the editor-in-chief of NDR Radio. Between October 1998 and April 2003, she was director of NDR in Hamburg, before being selected as the first woman to head a public broadcaster in Germany. She began her second five-year term as rbb's director general on May 1, 2008.