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Late Night Berlin
''Late Night Berlin'' (abbreviated ''LNB'') is a German late-night talk show hosted by Klaas Heufer-Umlauf on ProSieben. The show premiered on March 12, 2018, and is produced by Florida TV. Concept The concept of the show includes the classic elements of a late-night talk show such as stand-up, interviews with celebrity guests and a musical appearance. There are also recurring segments and a studio band with different names but actually the band named ''Gloria'' and is led by Mark Tavassol.Druck ablassen mit Klaas ''Stern''. March 12, 2018. German. (Retrieved March 13, 2018) The Florida TV author and producer Jakob Lundt appears as a sidekick. Show structure At the beginning of an episode Heufer-Umlauf performed a traditional stand ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
Klaas Heufer-Umlauf (born 22 September 1983 in Oldenburg) is a German television host, producer, actor and singer. He is best known as part of the duo Joko & Klaas, alongside Joko Winterscheidt. Biography Heufer-Umlauf is a trained hairdresser. After he won a casting, he started his career as a TV host in '' VIVA Live!'', ''Retro Charts'', and ''Klaas' Wochenshow''. He appeared in the sitcom '' Alle lieben Jimmy'' on RTL and the music video "And No Matches" by Scooter. From June 2009 to March 2011, Heufer-Umlauf co-hosted the late-night talk show ''MTV Home'' with Joko Winterscheidt on MTV Germany. From October 2011 to January 2013, they co-hosted ''NeoParadise'' on ZDFneo, which is considered a successor of ''MTV Home''. Since 2011, Joko and Klaas are hosting several shows on ProSieben, including the game shows ''17 Meter'', ''Die Rechnung geht auf uns'', and '' Joko gegen Klaas - Das Duell um die Welt''. In February 2013, they started the show ''Circus HalliGalli'' (2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Will
Anne Will (born 18 March 1966) is a German television journalist and host of the eponymous political talk show. She was anchorwoman of the daily ''Tagesthemen'' news broadcast on ARD from 14 April 2001 until 24 June 2007. Early life and career Will was born on 18 March 1966 in Cologne, West Germany, the daughter of an architect. She grew up in Hürth and attended the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium high school. From 1985 she studied history, politics, and English in Cologne and Berlin, with a scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES). Whilst a student she had articles published in the ''Kölnische Rundschau'' and ''Berliner Volksblatt'' newspapers. In 1990 she graduated with a Magister's degree from the University of Cologne. Career in television Will began her career in radio and television at Sender Freies Berlin (now part of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg). At the end of 1992 she started presenting the talk show ''Mal ehrlich'' and the sports magazine ''Sportpalast''. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Television Shows
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Fischer
Helene Fischer ( /heˈleːnə ˈfɪʃɚ/; German: eˈleːnə ˈfɪʃɐ born Jelena Petrovna Fischer, 5 August 1984) is a Russian-born German singer. Since her debut in 2005, she has won numerous awards, including 17 Echo awards, four "Die Krone der Volksmusik" awards and three Bambi awards. She has sold at least 15 million records.Music certificationsAT In June 2014, her multi-platinum 2013 album '''' became the most downloaded album ever by a German artist and is cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tocotronic
Tocotronic is a German rock band founded in 1993 (see 1993 in music). Similar to Blumfeld or Die Sterne they are considered a part of the Hamburger Schule (''Hamburg School'') movement. They are influential for bands such as Wir sind Helden. Tocotronic were signed by L'Age D'Or, a German independent record label situated in Hamburg, in 1994 after quickly gaining popularity in the local scene. Their early style consists of ironic sloganeering ("I want to be part of a youth movement") and almost diary-like songwriting, paired with a lo-fi rock sound with elements of punk rock and grunge. In 1995, they released their debut album ''Digital ist besser'' (Digital is better), followed by their second album ''Nach der verlorenen Zeit'' (After the Lost Time) only a few months later. Their third album, released in 1996, was the first to hit the German charts. The music became more complex over time, their lyrics less direct, resulting in a sound that was compared to that of Pavement on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Schwarz
Jessica Schwarz (born 5 May 1977) is a German film and TV actress. Life and career Schwarz was born in Erbach im Odenwald and grew up in the small town of Michelstadt, Germany. She won a contest of the German teen magazine Bravo (magazine), ''Bravo'' in 1993. Subsequently, she worked as a model (profession), model and VJ (media personality), VJ for the music channel VIVA (TV station), VIVA. In 2000 she started her acting career, but still occasionally hosts events, e.g. the German Film Award 2004. Schwarz separated from actor Daniel Brühl after a five-year relationship in 2006. She currently resides in Berlin. Schwarz is probably best known outside Germany for her part in ''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' and as Tony Buddenbrook in Buddenbrooks (film), the 2008 film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel ''Buddenbrooks''. Awards *2002 New Faces Award (Best Actress) for ''No Regrets'' *2003 Grimme-Preis, Adolf Grimme Award (Fiction/Entertai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch (; born 13 August 1971) is a German actress. She is known for her roles as Lisa Addison in ''Resident Evil'' (2002), Mia in ''Love Actually'' (2003), and as Liesel's mother in ''The Book Thief'' (2013). Early life Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Career Makatsch's television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as ''Interaktiv'' and ''Heikes Hausbesuche''; two years later, on 13 August 1995, she became the host of the German chart show ''Bravo TV'', aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997, she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled ''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Federal Election, 2017
Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU), led by incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, won the highest percentage of the vote with 33%, though it suffered a large swing against it of more than 8%. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) achieved its worst result since post-war Germany at 21%. Alternative for Germany (AfD), which was previously unrepresented in the Bundestag, became the third party in the Bundestag with 12.6% of the vote, whilst the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won 10.7% of the vote and returned to the Bundestag after losing all their seats in 2013. It was the first time since 1957 that a party to the political right of the CDU/CSU gained seats in the Bundestag. The other parties to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Kühnert
Kevin Kühnert (born 1 July 1989) is a German politician and the General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 elections, representing Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg. From 24 November 2017 to 8 January 2021 Kühnert was the federal chairman of the Jusos, previously serving as deputy chairman. Early life and career Kühnert was born in West Berlin. His father is a tax clerk, and his mother works in a job centre. He was named after the footballer Kevin Keegan. He passed his final exam at the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Lankwitz in 2008, where he also served as pupil's spokesman. He then completed a voluntary social year (German: ''Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr'') in a Berlin-based organization for children and young people. Kühnert initially worked over three years in a call center, then studying journalism and communication science at the Free University of Berlin, but never graduated. In 2016, he enro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Strunk
Heinz Strunk, legal name Mathias Halfpape (born 17 May 1962) is a German novelist, humorist musician, actor and member of Hamburg-based comedy trio Studio Braun. Strunk’s comedy ranges from goofy prank calls to biting political and cultural satire, often involving music. Strunk plays woodwind and keyboard instruments. Career Strunk was born in Bevensen and grew up in Hamburg. He has released three audio albums with Studio Braun containing prank phone calls. An example of such calls include Strunk calling a coal merchant to order coke, where he means cocaine but the coal merchant understands coke fuel. In another call, Strunk phones a resident of rural Saxony, an area known for a strong regional accent, to offer him free elocution lessons to “correct” his Saxon accent. Strunk claims to represent a fictional charity for Hamburg residents to “help” Saxony. In 2003 Studio Braun released the song ''Komputerfreak'', which takes a serious look at the washed-up lives and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (rapper)
Benjamin Griffey (born 25 September 1982), better known by his stage name Casper, is a German American rapper signed to Sony Music. Early life Casper was born in Lemgo in North Rhine-Westphalia to a German mother and an American father, Arlen Griffey, who was a soldier stationed in Lemgo. His family moved to Augusta, Georgia, in the United States, when he was two weeks old, where he lived in a trailer park."Casper Interview" (German). juice.de. Retrieved 29 July 2012 At the age of 11, he moved back to Germany and settled in with his mother and younger sister. Despite his mother being German, he had not been raised bilingually and therefore struggled at school initially. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
