Alice Tumler (born 11 November 1978) is an Austrian
television presenter
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.
Early life and education
Tumler was born in Innsbruck and is the daughter of an Austrian father with Slovenian-Italian descent and a French mother from the island of
Martinique
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.
At the age of 19, she moved to
London
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, where she studied journalism, media and sociology, and later moved to
Paris
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where she participated in theater courses at the
Cours Florent
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The school is located on three nearby sites in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France: rue Archereau, rue Mathis, and Avenue Jean-Jaurès; f ...
.
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Career
Tumler's career as a television presenter began in 2004 with French music channel TraceTV.[ She has also worked for the Franco-German TV network, ]Arte
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and French national channel France 3
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.
Since 2013, she has hosted the ORF
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talent show ''Die große Chance'' alongside Andi Knoll
Andreas "Andi" Knoll (born 11 June 1972 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian radio and television presenter. He is Austria's commentator at the Eurovision Song Contest each year.
Eurovision Song Contest work
Since the 1999 contest (with the except ...
.[ In May 2015, she jointly hosted the ]Eurovision Song Contest 2015
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with Mirjam Weichselbraun and Arabella Kiesbauer
Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer (born 8 April 1969), known professionally as Arabella Kiesbauer, is an Austrian born German-Austrian TV presenter, writer and actress. She grew up in Vienna with her grandmother after her mother Hannelore (a Germ ...
at the Wiener Stadthalle
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in Vienna.
In October 2015, Governor
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Günther Platter named her ''Tyrolean of the Year''.
Personal life
Tumler speaks four languages fluently, German
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* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ge ...
, English
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* English language
* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
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, French and Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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and is proficient in Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
and Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
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** Portu ...
. She has a daughter.
References
External links
Alice Tumler
at ORF
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Living people
1978 births
Austrian television presenters
Austrian women television presenters
Mass media people from Innsbruck
ORF (broadcaster) people
Cours Florent alumni
Austrian people of Slovenian descent
Austrian people of Italian descent
Austrian people of French descent
Austrian people of Martiniquais descent
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