Daniel Ridwan "Budi" Budiman (born May 25, 1983, in

Flensburg Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...

) is a German presenter. He was a presenter at

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from 2003 to 2006 and then developed the computer game show

Game One Game One is a French television channel owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA. The channel shows several programs based on video gaming. It also airs Japanese anime on a regular basis, such as ''Fairy Tail'', ''Naruto'', '' Naruto: Shippuden'', ''D ...

together with Simon Krätschmer, where he hosted and produced from 2006 to 2014. He is co-founder and presenter of the media production company Rocket Beans Entertainment GmbH, founded in 2011, of which he was co-managing director until 2014.

Life

Budiman was born as the third child of an Indonesian family. He has one sister and one brother. He attended the German International School in

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

and the Immanuel Kant High School in

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, where he graduated from high school. In the high school, he was active as a student representative and in the school choir. Parallel to his hosting of Game One, Budiman studied philosophy for two semesters at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

References

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