Phylicia "Flitzi" Whitney is a German presenter, author, producer and journalist. She has been moderating the magazine 'Inside eSports' since January 2020 and has been a reporter of and

Südwestrundfunk Südwestrundfunk (SWR; ''Southwest Broadcasting'') is a regional public broadcasting corporation serving the southwest of Germany , specifically the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The corporation has main offices ...

since 2019. She gained notoriety as a reporter through various

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such as

RTL Zwei RTL Zwei (stylised as RTLZWEI), formerly spelled RTL 2 and RTL II, is a German-language television channel that is operated by ''RTL2 Television GmbH & Co. KG''. RTL2 is a private television broadcaster with a full program ''(Vollprogramm)'' ...

and . She has been a host for the Ludicious Game Awards, Saturn Logitech and

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Personal life

Whitney was born on February 9 in

Goslar Goslar (; Eastphalian: ''Goslär'') is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and located on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range. The Old Town of Goslar and the Mines ...

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

and grew up in

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

. She enjoyed music, joining choir and attending piano lessons. Whitney gave lessons in hip-hop to her children and other young people until 2016. After her acting training, she moved to

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

where she still lives today. She is involved with various organizations dedicated to animal welfare and climate protection.

Career

After graduating from high school, Whitney completed an apprenticeship at the

Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States was originally built in 1904 as the Franklin Square Theatre regularly scheduling burlesque shows, Broadway touring shows and headline acts tra ...

and took part in multiple theatre productions. She joined RTL for a second apprenticeship, then began to work for various programs as an editor and reporter. In 2012, she produced a

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. Soon after, she graduated with a degree of editing at the

Cologne University of Applied Sciences Cologne University of Applied Sciences, officially called TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences (''german: Technische Hochschule Köln'', abbreviated TH Köln) is an institute of higher education located in Cologne, Germany, established in ...

. Whitney joined Sat. 1 Breakfast Television in 2013. She discusses topics such as video games, apps, hardware and presents recent technology highlights. She reported for

until 2018 and reported on various action events for Games.ch, Red Bull and

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. In 2016, she began working as a freelance TV reporter for Punkt 12,

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and Vox and until 2019, Whitney hosted multiple

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, interviews and backstage reports for

Alles was zählt ''Alles was zählt'' ("All That Matters") is a German television soap opera first broadcast on RTL on 4 September 2006. Plot The original plot revolved around Diana Sommer's dream to become a world class ice skater. She fell in love with Jul ...

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten ''Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten'' ("Good Times, Bad Times"), often abbreviated ''GZSZ'', is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's ...

and

Among Us ''Among Us'' is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by American game studio Innersloth. The game was inspired by the party game Mafia and the science fiction horror film '' The Thing''. The game allows ...

. She was reporter for the Toggo TV Show every Saturday and Sunday on

Super RTL Super RTL is a German free-to-air television network owned by the RTL Group. The channel originally launched in 1995 as a joint venture between RTL Group predecessor company CLT-UFA and Disney's Buena Vista International Television Investments ...

until 2020. Whitney also works as a video journalist and producer, and was a reporter for multiple

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relating to

Anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

. As a gaming journalist, Whitney has written for the multiple magazines, some of which include ''Chip gameware'', ''Gameswelt'' and ''Gamepires.'' In 2017, ''GamesWirtschaft'' ranked her in the top 10 best women in the German games industry in the “Media” category and was nominated for the German Sports Journalist Award in 2021.

References

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