Michael Brandt

I am Michael Brandt.
At dpa – Deutsche Presse-Agentur I am working in a journalistic practical training.

Furthermore, I am frequently traveling to the MENA Region (e.g. Israel and Palestine) in order to find new stories to tell and to explain there. Furthermore, I am speaking and learning Modern Hebrew and Arabic.

• 08/2020 – 02/2025
  Reporter & Live Presenter Radio, Online and TV at
  NDR Studio Braunschweig and NDR Studio Göttingen and NDR Investigative Unit Niedersachsen
  Live Talks, Reports & Features about daily regional news, national and regional elections, Jewish Life, Culture and History, Islam, Migration, MENA Region, History of Lower Saxony, Science, Culture, Reports from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Religion and Society;
  Media Education for student as a reporter and trainer of NDR and ARD
• 06/2023 – 06/2024
  Editor at WDR Studio Aachen (Temporary Contract)
  
• M. A. in Global Politics and History –
  at Georg August University of Göttingen, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Warsaw University
  with a focus on the MENA Region, Political Theory and Theory of Democracy.
• Member of curatorial team of a historical exhibition about Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in the century 20th century.
  
• Member of the Commission of the Foundation of Ecumenical Learning of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church Braunschweig to choose new volunteer candidates.
  Furthermore, as an alumnus I am still engaged in accompanying the future volunteers on their way to our Israeli and Palestinian partners in Kiryat Tivon, Jerusalem and Beit Jala. I was a volunteer of the Jewish-Arabic bilingual Kindergarten Ein Bustan near Kiryat Tivon.
• Organizing projects for the city partnership between Braunschweig and Kiryat Tivon, Israel.

Learning Modern Hebrew (Ivrit) and Arabic – my lifetime goal: being able to read a Hebrew and Arabic newspaper.