About the speaker
Lea Wagner is one of the youngest and most successful presenters on German sports television. At the age of 23, she presented her first live sports programme for public broadcaster ARD/SWR, laying the foundation for an impressive career. Since then, she has presented over 200 live programmes for ARD, SWR and HR and has been involved in major sports broadcasts as a presenter, whether on the sidelines or conducting exclusive interviews at the German House. The next step in her career followed in 2023, when she joined the team of presenters for the Bundesliga Sportschau on Saturdays, firmly establishing herself as the face of the ARD football coverage. She has covered UEFA EURO 2024, the FIFA Women's and Men's World Cups, and the Summer and Winter Olympics, among other events. Consequently, she will also be on site at the Olympic Games in Milan and the Football World Cup in the USA in 2026 (Photo: Ben Knabe).
Lea Wagner at OMR
The largest FIFA World Cup in history. Three countries, one massive challenge. When the World Cup kicks off in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, it will be present across all ARD and ZDF channels: live, on-demand, and right in the middle of fans' everyday lives. Sportschau meets sportstudio. The sporting event is becoming a content playground—from highlight clips to deep dives, from primetime to timelines. And right in the thick of it: Sportschau presenters Lea Wagner and Alex Schlüter, alongside ZDF experts and World Cup winners Christoph Kramer and Per Mertesacker. On stage, they discuss what truly great World Cup coverage is all about, how content is created, and what it feels like to commentate from the sidelines rather than being on the pitch.
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