Jacqueline Stuhler
1956–2026German television journalist and moderator, best known as a longtime face of the ARD-Buffet advice show.
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Jacqueline Stuhler was a German television journalist and presenter who built a wide-ranging career in public broadcasting. Born on 23 April 1956 in Lindau and raised on Lake Constance, she trained as a trainee at the Nürnberger Zeitung and studied theatre studies in Erlangen before joining Bavarian Radio as a reporter in 1980, where she hosted youth-oriented programmes such as Zündfunk and Live aus dem Alabama.
In 1998 she joined the founding team of ARD-Buffet, the SWR-produced advice programme, and remained its face on the main channel for eleven years. She also hosted the SWR Wortwechsel political interview show until 2008 and shaped the regional political magazine Ländersache. From 1990 she headed the domestic politics editorial team at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk, overseeing programmes such as Pro und Contra and Schlaglicht.
Stuhler received the Ernst-Schneider-Preis for economic journalism in 1982 and the Hans-Bausch-Mediapreis in 2001. She died on 24 October 2026 at the age of 70 in Friolzheim after a long, serious illness.
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