1. Dunja Hayali was born on 6 June 1974 and is a German journalist and television presenter for public broadcaster ZDF.
17 Facts About Dunja Hayali
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Dunja Hayali has an interest in sports, and is known for her social activism.
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Dunja Hayali's mother is Chaldean Catholic, and her father is Syriac Orthodox.
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Dunja Hayali's older brother is a doctor, and her older sister first worked as a physician's assistant and later in a hospital.
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Dunja Hayali played volleyball and soccer, trained judo and played tennis as a competitive sport until the age of 15.
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Dunja Hayali studied at the German Sport University in Cologne from 1995 to 1999, majoring in "Media and Communication".
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Dunja Hayali co-anchored of the heute-journal, usually with chief anchor Steffen Seibert.
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Dunja Hayali has been hosting the ZDF Morning Magazine since October 2007.
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In summer 2015 and 2016, Dunja Hayali stood in for Maybrit Illner as host of the ZDF program ZDFdonnerstalk.
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In 2023, Dunja Hayali re-joined the heute-journal, this time as anchor in rotation with Marietta Slomka, Christian Sievers and Anne Gellinek.
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In March 2017, Dunja Hayali gave an interview to the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit.
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Dunja Hayali has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the DFL Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to social projects since 2017.
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In 2018, Dunja Hayali was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for her commitment against racism and xenophobia.
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Dunja Hayali was criticized because, in addition to her job as a journalist, she moderated trade conventions for companies and events in the gambling industry.
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Dunja Hayali received money from Amazon and BMW, among others.
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Dunja Hayali has extensive tattoos on her right arm and back; these were first seen at the presentation of the Deutscher Fernsehpreis on 9 October 2010 in Cologne; on television they had always been covered.
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Dunja Hayali is lesbian; in 2008 she announced that since 2007 she had been in a relationship with Mareike Arning, the vocalist of the punk-pop band Uschi's Orchester.