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Last name                            Picareta

First name                          Lourdes

E-mail                                          lourdes_picareta@yahoo.de

                                             http://lpicareta.blogspot.de/

Office                                                German Television - Foreign Desk
            SWR-ARTE-ARD
            Südwestrundfunk
            FS: Politik - Ausland
            D - 70190 Stuttgart
            +49 711 92912776
            + 49 711 92911254

Cellphone                                         0049 151 12624178
E-mail                                                lourdes.picareta@swr.de

Place of birth                       Serpa, Portugal                                                            

Education

09/1976 – 07/1982                                        University of Mainz / University of Munich, Germany

Magister Artium (Master of Arts) in German philology

German history, and comparative social science

09/1964 – 06/197                                           Almada High School, Almada, Portugal                

 Highschool diploma (university qualification)

Work Experience

Since 1984                                                     Independent Journalist / Director, Cologne, Germany

- SWF/SWR TV foreign desk EUROPE

- SWF/SWR TV cultural editorial department

- ARD TV (primary German channel) Europemagazine

- WDR TV: domestic TV, international/overseas TV

- ARTE (Franco-German channel)

- Various Awards (e.g: Canadian ‘eco-top movie’ Award;

  Award of the club of Portuguese journalists)

- Relevant Award nominations (e.g.: German price for

journalism, ‘Grimme Preis’; German-french Price for journalism  ‘Deutsch-französischer Journalistenpreis‘)

Since 1992                                                      Participation in various co-productions, journalist/author/director

- Primarily for German, French and Portuguese

  broadcasters

08/1988 – 10/1988                                          Antenne 2, Paris, Intern

 - Shadowing various workers for prime-time news

  Broadcasting and reportage program

 Skills

Languages

·      Portuguese – native   

·      German – professional

·      French – fluent

·      Spanish – fluent

·      English – good

·      Greek – basic

Interests

·      Cinema (Pedro Almodovar, Jim Jarmush, Xavier Dolan...)

·      Music (Bossanova, Jazz, newclassic...)

·      Fitness (Running)