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  • Ms Sophie Burkhardt
    Deputy General Manager
    Funk

ABOUT

Reaching young audiences with public service media content – that’s the aim of funk, a digital content Network operated by Germany’s public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Since its foundation in 2016 the network is continuously growing. In 2019 73% of young Germans knew funk and its shows. Sophie Burkhardt was part of the team developing the idea and is now leading the project that focusses on content-distribution via third party platforms as YouTube, Instagram or Snapchat. 

Sophie Burkhardt is a Journalist and Media Manager. She studied Political Science and Journalism in Munich, Paris and Rome. After her studies she worked as a researcher at the “Chair of Political Systems and European Integration“ at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University. Since 2009 she is working for Germany’s Public Broadcaster ZDF: at first in the Online-News-Department than as an Assistant Manager at the Office of Editor in Chief, Peter Frey. Since 2015 she is responsible for funk at ZDF.