Sabine Zimmermann (22 July 1951 – 1 May 2020) was a German television host and producer, mainly known for her involvement with popular crime-solving programme ''

Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst ''Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst'' ("Case number XY... unsolved") is a German interactive television programme first broadcast on 20 October 1967 on ZDF. Created by Eduard Zimmermann, it aims to combat and solve crimes. The programme is currently ...

''.

Biography

Zimmermann was the adopted daughter of journalist and television presenter

Eduard Zimmermann Eduard Zimmermann (4 February 1929 – 19 September 2009) was a German journalist, television presenter and security expert. Life Eduard Zimmermann was born on 4 February 1929 in Alte Heide in the borough of Schwabing-Freimann in Munich, Germ ...

, who died in 2009. She had originally aimed for a different career path, successfully completing training as a police photographer and working for the Munich Police Department for seven years. However, in 1983, after finishing business training, she joined her adoptive father's

Ismaning Ismaning is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, located near Munich. Geography In 2016 it had 16,770 inhabitants. The town is located about seven kilometers northeast of Munich on the right high bank of the Isar River that flows into the Danube. ...

-based production company as its managing director. Between 1987 and 2001, she co-hosted ''

'', first alongside her father and later with

Butz Peters Butz Peters (born 22 January 1958 in Hanover) is a German television presenter and jurist who presented '' Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst'' from 1997 to 2001. He is the author of four bestsellers (among others ''Tödlicher Irrtum – Die Geschichte ...

. She continued to be the show's producer until 2011. Zimmermann died on 1 May 2020, following a short, but severe illness.

References

1951 births 2020 deaths German television personalities German women journalists ZDF people {{Germany-tv-bio-stub