Christa Kummer resigns as ORF Weather Presenter
Christa Kummer is saying goodbye after 30 years as an ORF weather presenter. The 61-year-old will present the weather for the last time after the "ZiB" on Friday, after which she will turn to new tasks, the ORF announced in a statement. With Kummer's departure, Wera Gruber will take over on screen. The 48-year-old from Salzburg has been part of the ORF weather team for 27 years.
Christa Kummer "Grateful"
Kummer began her work in the ORF weather editorial team in 1994 and became the first woman in Austria to host a weather show in March 1995. With this, she wrote a piece of ORF history, noted ORF Director General Roland Weißmann about Kummer, who over the decades has become "a dazzling ORF brand."
"I am grateful that I was able to shape and influence TV weather for more than three decades and also made history with it! One must never forget in this industry: You cannot want this job, it is given to you for a time," Kummer was quoted as saying upon her departure.
Lectures and Athletics
Apart from ORF, Kummer has given and continues to give lectures on aspects of climate change. On her social media channels, she educates about sustainability. Her main concern is to package scientific topics in such a way that people enjoy reading them and do not feel lectured. "It's like mixing medicine into a dog's food so that it doesn't realize it just swallowed medication," Kummer explained last year on the occasion of her 60th birthday to the APA.
Before her career at ORF, she was active as an athlete. However, due to numerous injuries, she eventually had to give up high-performance sports and focused on her doctoral studies in geography with a focus on geochemistry and geophysics.
(APA/Red)
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