Sonia Seymour Mikich

Sonia Seymour Mikich is a German TV journalist.

Education

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

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.

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

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