Dietlinde "Lilli" Gruber (born 19 April 1957) is an Italian journalist and former politician.
Currently a talk show host for Italian private television channel La7, Gruber also served as Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to September 2008 with the Olive Tree centre-left coalition.
Biography
Early career and resignation from RAI
Lilli Gruber in 2003
Gruber was born in Bolzano and is a German and Italian native speaker. She attended the foreign languages and literature course at the University of Venice. In 1982 Gruber started her journalism career and in 1987 became the anchor of TG1, the main television news program on Rai Uno.
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.
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 (it).
Bilderberg invitation
She was included in the guest list of Bilderberg Group 2012 edition, at Chantilly, Virginia, as Journalist/Anchorwoman, and was the only journalist allowed at the 2013 meeting in Hertfordshire, England.[1]
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 Paolo Borella, Torino, Nuova Eri edizioni RAI, 1990. ISBN88-397-0594-5.
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. ISBN978-3-426-30072-5
Tempesta (2014)
Prigionieri dell'Islam. Terrorismo, migrazioni, integrazione: il triangolo che cambia la nostra vita, Milano, Rizzoli, 2016. ISBN978-88-17-08854-1