Lilli Gruber

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Lilli Gruber
Member of the European Parliament for Central Italy
In office 14 June 2004 – 30 September 2008
Majority	Party of European Socialists
Personal details
Born	Dietlinde Gruber (1957-04-19) 19 April 1957 (age 67) Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Jacques Charmelot ​ (m. 2012)​
Alma mater	Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Profession	Journalist

Dietlinde "Lilli" Gruber (born 19 April 1957) is an Italian journalist and former politician.

Currently a talk show host for Italian private television channel

Biography

Early career and resignation from RAI

Gruber was born in

In 1988, she became political correspondent for

In 1999, in addition to her TV career in Italy, she also worked with the German TV broadcasters such as SWF (1988) and Pro 7 (1996).

In April 2004, Gruber resigned from her position at RAI in protest against the influence on state controlled media by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. She attacked his "unresolved conflict of interest", and considered that RAI had abandoned its tradition of pluralism in order to support the government's views. Gruber has also worked for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, for "Io Donna", TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Anna.

Member of European Parliament

In the

After her resignation from European Parliament, in 2008 Gruber accepted an offer from private TV channel La7, where she took charge of the long-running political talk show Otto e mezzo.

Bilderberg invitation

She was included in the guest list of

• 1993: 'William Benton Fellowship for Broadcasting Journalists' at the University of Chicago
• 2002: 'Visiting scholar' at the
  School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University
  ; for two years 'discussion leader' at the World Economic Forum of Davos

• 1991: "Numeri UNO" Prize
• 1995: Best Female Journalist
• 1995: Carlo Schmidt Preis, Germany, for distinguished service to freedom of information
• 1995: Fregene prize
• 2001: Spoleto prize
• For covering the war in
  inter alia
• 2004: Honorary graduate of the American University of Rome

Works

• Quei giorni a Berlino. Il crollo del Muro, l'agonia della Germania Est, il sogno della riunificazione: diario di una stagione che ha cambiato l'Europa, con
  ISBN 88-397-0594-5
  .
• I miei Giorni a Baghdad ("My Days in Baghdad", 2003)
• L'altro Islam ("The Other Islam", 2004)
• Chador (2005)
• America anno zero ("America year zero", 2006)
• Figlie dell'Islam (2007)
• Streghe (2008)
• Ritorno a Berlino (2009)
• Eredità (2012); Das Erbe. Die Geschichte meiner Südtiroler Familie. Droemer 2013.
  ISBN 978-3-426-30072-5
• Tempesta (2014)
• Prigionieri dell'Islam. Terrorismo, migrazioni, integrazione: il triangolo che cambia la nostra vita, Milano, Rizzoli, 2016.
  ISBN 978-88-17-08854-1

External links

• Lilli Gruber's Home Page
• Personal profile of Lilli Gruber in the European Parliament's database of members
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Italian)