Christoph Teuner has worked in television for around 20 years, during which time he has moderated some 8000 live programmes. His life and work are based around the motto “Just tell the news” – so it practically goes without saying that he writes nearly all of his moderation texts himself. He has worked at N-TV for ten years, and was named head anchor in 2005. He currently presents the main news at 18:00 and the Auslandsreport, among other programmes.
The election and the inauguration of Barack Obama are among the highlights of Teuner’s journalistic career to date. “Those were real ‘gooseflesh’ moments," he says. He moderated the big election special "Amerika wählt” live from New York, working with his RTL colleague Peter Kloeppel, and also commentated a seven-hour live programme during the historic inauguration of the first Black U.S. president.
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John McCain and Barack Obama – On 4 November 2008, citizens of the United States of America voted in a new president. Christian Teuner reported live for the N-TV viewers.
Looking back, two events stick out in his memory: The Gulf War in 2003 and the attacks of September 11, 2001: “The Gulf War coverage was an incredibly challenging journalistic assignment. And not only that: I had to present all specials with a very painful slipped disc - and standing all the time,” Teuner recalls. "As a journalist, I was most exasperated when I couldn’t get to the newsroom on 9/11. The news of the attacks reached me while I was climbing in Switzerland.”
Teuner, born in 1963, began his career in 1987 at Tele 5 in Munich. At the same time, he trained as a TV and radio presenter at the Bayerischer Rundfunk/Hörfunk, where he worked as a news presenter. Subsequent career stations included RTL Television, where he was deputy anchorman of the flagship news RTL Aktuell, Deutsche Welle TV, and CNN International. Following a brief stint at SAT.1, he joined N-TV in March 2000.