Golineh Atai is a German television correspondent who was born on December 8, 1974. When Golineh Atai was just five years old, she moved to Germany from Iran with her parents.
She grew up in Hoffenheim. Golineh Atai attended the Wilhelmi-Gymnasium in Sinsheim and successfully graduated. She also studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg between 1993 and 2000.
She earned a master’s degree in Romance Studies, Political Science and Iranian Studies and later become a journalist.
Golineh Atai got some sort of training at Südwestrundfunk where she served as a television reporter at the Mainz location for reporting from Rhineland-Palatinate. She worked as a correspondent in Cairo for ARD between 2006 and 2008.
Golineh Atai also worked as an editor at ARD Morning magazine from 2010 to 2011. She also served as an editor and reporter at the Tagesschau for the WDR in Cologne from December 2011.
Golineh Atai moved to ZDF on January 1, 2022, and she was in charge of managing the studio in Cairo. She was at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar where she worked as a correspondent for the ZDF sports studio.
Over the years Golineh Atai has worked as a television correspondent, and she has received a lot of awards.
Some of these awards are 2010: Media prize “Children’s Rights in One World” from Kindernothilfe for “Looking for a child, pay cash – The Adoption Lobby” from WDR,2014: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize for television journalism , 2014: Journalist of the Year for her “outstanding reporting in the debate on the Ukraine crisis that has been going on for more than a year”, 2015: Peter Scholl Latour Prize for her Weltspiegel contribution Ukraine: Quo vadis? as well as 2023: Marie Juchacz Women’s Prize for equality between men and women through credible, balanced foreign journalism from Russia, Ukraine, Iran and the Arab world.
Is Golineh Atai Married?
There is no information on the marital status of Golineh Atai.
Some of the nominations to her credit are 2007: Nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in the Information and Culture/Special category, 2008: Nomination for the Reemtsma Liberty Award and 2023: Nominated for the Grimme Prize for her reporting from the Arab world.
