Judith Rakers
This is how things continue with her after the “Tagesschau” farewell
Never again “Tagesschau”: Judith Rakers with her newly published children’s book “Judith’s Little Farm”
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On January 31st, Judith Rakers will be working as a “Tagesschau” spokeswoman for the last time. After that, she mainly devotes herself to fruits and vegetables.
After 19 years, Judith Rakers (48), one of the most popular and well-known “Tagesschau” speakers, is saying goodbye to her TV audience. When she unexpectedly announced her departure at the end of the month in mid-January, she already gave a vague indication of where she would be heading in the future. In a statement from NDR She explained that it was time to “direct the focus in my life to other projects, to further expand my entrepreneurial activities and to tackle new things for which there was previously too little time in addition to the news shift work.”
It seems that Judith Rakers has actually decided to take her life in completely new directions. Even if she doesn’t disappear completely from the screen – as the presenter of the Radio Bremen talk show “3nach9” and the ARD travel magazine “Wunderschön” she remains with the audience – it is now clear that she will no longer be involved in the news in the future all over the world, but would rather deal with the vegetables from their garden. The entrepreneurial activities that she now wants to further expand revolve around her newfound passion for “home farming”, i.e. farming in her own garden with the aim of achieving the greatest possible self-sufficiency.
Private restart on the farm
Largely unnoticed by the average of around ten million viewers of the “Tagesschau”, Rakers has already built up a lot in this specialist area over the last few years. She discovered her passion for home farming in 2018 when she moved to a farm near Hamburg after her divorce from financial expert Andreas Pfaff (51). Like 2023 them on the talk show “Riverboat” reported that, in addition to a horse, she not only acquired a whole flock of chickens and several cats for her new life, but also began to grow fruit and vegetables on her own soil – although she initially had “no idea” about it.
“Home farming” as a business concept
Just three years later, her knowledge had obviously advanced to such an extent that she could fill an entire book with it. In their work “Home farming – self-sufficiency without a green thumb” She imparts basic knowledge for future self-sufficient people and also reports on her personal path to gardening happiness. In 2022 she stepped it up again and brought in own home farming magazine including podcast at the start and published another specialist literary work with the title “Home farming – The cookbook. With your own harvest all year round.”
Vegetable crash course with Jack the cat on “Judith’s little farm”
Shortly before her last “Tagesschau” she added a self-written children’s book to her book series, which was published on January 22nd. “Judith’s Little Farm” tells Rakers’ path to becoming a home farming queen from an animal perspective. On Instagram she explained: “It’s the story of my cat Jack – how he came to my farm and discovered everything here. Just like me, who first had to learn a lot about growing vegetables, the chickens and the garden. I wanted to “Write a loving book – full of respect for animals and nature. An entertaining story in which children can learn and discover a lot.”
In parallel to the children’s book, Rakers is currently bringing a raised bed experiment kit and “Home farming – the board game” onto the market in collaboration with Kosmos-Verlag. Both products will be presented at this year’s Nuremberg Toy Fair, which opened its doors on January 30th, the day before her very last appearance as a news anchor.
TV-free happiness around the campfire
After her last assignment in ARD shift work, Judith Rakers will finally be able to fully enjoy her newfound freedom and independence with her animal and plant friends. “I feel so good when I can sit around the campfire in the evening on my rusty garden chair and there is only the night sky above me,” she enthused a few months ago in “Riverboat”. “That makes me incredibly happy. Everyone has to find their own way, for me that’s it.”