Linda Zervakis is a German-Greek television presenter as well as newsreader and journalist in the editorship of ARD-Aktuell in Hamburg. She is the first Tagesschau presenter with an immigrant background. Zervakis is the daughter of Greek immigrant guest workers in Hamburg-Harburg, where she attended the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium until 1994. Her father ran a kiosk in Harburg. Following her father's death, Zervakis and her brothers had to help their mother by working in the kiosk while they were still children. Until the age of 28, Zervakis worked on Sundays in the kiosk.

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